2024-12-22T02:46:05-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150227141/architects-reconnect-with-indigenous-traditions-in-toronto Alexander Walter 2020-09-22T18:30:00-04:00 >2020-09-22T18:30:32-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/61/61e65cf42061f4497a69513e10e5a674.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Smoke detectors and birch trees. These are two things that an architect would not typically mention while talking up an ambitious new building. But for the Indigenous House at the University of Toronto Scarborough, these matters are critical. Here, connections with Indigenous traditions and ways of thinking will be everywhere, from the guts of the building to the landscape that accompanies it.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Alex Bozikovic,&nbsp;<em>The Globe and Mail</em>&rsquo;s architecture critic, reviews the planned Indigenous House at the University of Toronto Scarborough, designed by Formline Architecture in collaboration with LGA Architectural Partners and landscape architecture firm Public Work.<br></p>