Trevor Boddy

Trevor Boddy is a critic, curator, and historian of architecture, as well as a conultant for urban design. He has written extensively on architecture and cities for a variety of newspapers, journals, and magazines, including The Vancouver Sun, Toronto Globe and Mail, Ottawa Citizen, Seattle Times, Canadian Architect, Architectural Review, Architectural Record, as well as design magazines published in German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Arabic. His art criticism has appeared in Canadian Art and Vanguard magazines plus numerous exhibition catalogs.

Trevor holds a Master’s degree in architecture, and has taught studio architecture, history, and urbanism at universities across North America. He also lectures around the world on contemporary design and city-building.

Trevor's independent critical monograph The Architecture of Douglas Cardinal was named “Alberta Book of the Year” and short-listed for the International Union of Architects prize for best book of architectural criticism published worldwide. His essay “Underground and Overhead: Building the Analogous City” was included in the collection Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space, named “One of the most important books of 1992" by the Voice Literary Supplement. A contributing editor to Seattle’s Arcade and Toronto’s Canadian Architect magazines, Trevor's architectural criticism has earned the 2001 Western Magazine Award for arts writing. He was also named co-winner of the 2003 Jack Webster Journalism Award for civic reporting.