Vancouver-based critic and curator Trevor Boddy has written on architecture and cities for newspapers, architectural magazines such as Architectural Review, Canadian Architect, Architectural Record and global design magazines published in German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese and Arabic. He holds a Master's degree in architecture, and has taught design studio, history and urbanism at universities across North America, and lectures globally on contemporary design and city-building. His Vancouver-based column of architectural criticism is entitled "DWELLING" is posted every Friday at www.globeandmail.com.
Trevor Boddy's independent critical monograph The Architecture of Douglas Cardinal was named "Alberta Book of the Year." Critical essays on contemporary urbanism have appeared in two prominent books edited by Michael Sorkin: Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space (Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992) and a recent follow-up Indefensible Space (Routledge, 2007.) As architectural curator, he produced the 2005 exhibition-as-event for UBC's Museum of Anthropology entitled "A Dialogue of Cities," a global gathering of architecture critics. Presently, Trevor Boddy is curating the exhibition and related Trafalgar Square site-specific construction entitled "Vancouverism: Westcoast Architecture + City-Building," (www.vancouverism.ca) opening at Canada House, London, as part of the 2008 London Festival of Architecture, then touring internationally.