Over the last several years, it has become apparent to conscientious architects, planners, and ordinary citizens that the much-touted Vancouverism?a phenomenon characterized by medium to high-density mixed use residential and commercial buildings planned for park-filled pedestrian-friendly neighbourhoods?has a dark side and a very high price tag. Herein lies the raison d?être of a new monograph series on single-detached houses realized in and around Vancouver from the 1950s to the late 1970s. The University of British Columbia School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (UBC SALA), in collaboration with ORO Editions, began publishing the West Coast Modern House book series in 2016. The series? editors and curators are all SALA faculty members: Chris Macdonald, Sherry McKay, and Leslie Van Duzer. They write in the foreword to the series: ?As rapidly escalating land values in the Vancouver region exert enormous pressure on residences created by a postwar modernist ethos, many important houses are currently endangered.? A case in point: Adele Weder, the author of a 2017 volume in the series dedicated to Ron Thom?s Copp House (1950), writes that ?The B.C. government?s 2016 assessment of the house, independent of the lot, is $65,100; the valuation of just the lot itself is $33,316,000.? Richard Cavell, author of the monograph on the Friedman House (1954) by architect Frederic Lasserre and landscape architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, writes that this house ?survives in a ...