Dave LeBlanc was born in Toronto and wouldn't have it any other way. At age 8, he remembers jumping for joy when both the CN Tower opened and Toronto finally snatched Montreal's crown to become the biggest city in Canada; he's been an architecture lover and Toronto advocate ever since.
He attended Ryerson for Radio-Television Arts and York University for English. His radio career has included stints at CJEZ, CJAD in Montreal and CFRB, where he currently works (and sometimes speaks about architecture on-air). His budding life as a newspaper writer began in 1997 at the Montreal Gazette and flowered fully with the Globe & Mail in 2003. Since 2004 he has written weekly as "The Architourist" for Globe Real Estate. His work has also appeared in The Toronto Star, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Concrete Toronto (Coach House, 2007) and international architecture magazines. He has served as a juror for the Ontario Association of Architects and Heritage Toronto.
He lives downtown in a 1920s condominium with his wife and cat.
In rural Ontario, a high-tech home built of low-tech dirt
Using techniques thousands of years old but adapted to the modern age, retired high school teachers Sylvia Cook and Stephen Cavalier - and architect Terrell Wong - have built Ontario's first rammed earth home
Harbourfront exhibit asks, How much space do we really need?
Architectural firms explore whether their work can be sold based on quality over quantity
Phone app brings Toronto architecture to life
Ryerson Architecture Mobile App lets you point and click for building info
A bow to the original Architourist
Meet the woman who nurtured an early love of Toronto’s built environment
Feeling the Lego love on Coxwell Avenue
The buyer of this unusual place will have bragging rights to one of the oddest homes in east end Toronto
Design duo make sure there’s still a place for the kids
After fire destroys an Anex drop-in centre, Adam and Katia Thom help bring life to an unpromising space
In search of a city’s tattered, battered monuments to the space age
The only agenda these unofficial and anonymously designed artifacts had was to employ the motifs and signifiers of the Sputnik-to-shuttle era
A lofty suburban Mississauga home
New residents in suburbia, a couple enlist the talents of architects Melana Janzen and John McMinn to build a high-style home with an urban sophistication
A Toronto tour through ‘man’s imprint on the environment’
Retired York University geography professor John Warkentin’s ‘Creating Memory’ helps forge a path through a maze of public artwork
