adjunct + emeriti
ADJUNCT
Lauren Abrahams
Lauren has taught Arch 193 and Arch 293. She has Masters at McGill, and a RACI Student Gold Medal. She has participated in numerous international workshops on alternate energy and waste systems, ecological city building, and engages in an extensive process of public consultation and consultant coordination.
Taymoore Balbaa
Taymoore is a graduate of the School of Architecture and the inaugural winner of the Canada Council for the Arts’ Prix de Rome in Architecture for Emerging Practitioners. He is principal of TABA Design Studio, and is developing a body of work that includes a library, housing, and public schools. He teaches 2nd and 3rd year studio.
Neeraj Bhatia
Neeraj Bhatia received his masters degree in Architecture and Urban Design from MIT where he was studying on a Fulbright Fellowship. Prior to that, he attended the University of Waterloo where he obtained a pre-professional (B.E.S) and professional degree (B.Arch) in Architecture. Both his B.Arch and SM.Arch theses were awarded a thesis prize. Amongst other offices, he has worked for Eisenman Architects, Coop Himmelblau, OMA, Bruce Mau Design and Lateral Office. His research has been published in Volume/Archis, Thresholds, Footprint, Onsite Review, brkt and Yale Perspecta. He is co-editor of -Arium: Weather + Architecture' (with Jurgen Mayer H.). In 2008, Neeraj became a director of InfraNet Lab, a non-profit research collective probing the spatial byproducts of contemporary resource logistics. InfraNet Lab’s research into urban infrastructures will be published in Pamphlet Architecture 30.
Mark A. Cichy
Mark is the founding principal of Mark Cichy & Associates - an interdisciplinary design firm based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Mark holds both a Master of Architecture and Bachelor of Environmental Studies in Pre-Professional Architecture from the University of Waterloo and has won several digital design awards through the University as well as a multitude of design publications. Mark's research with Simon Fraser University - investigating multi-shared, high bandwidth parametric networks - is ground-breaking in the field of conceptual parametric design technology. Mark has taught/tutored several parametric design workshops for Bentley Systems at many of the world's top post secondary institutions. Mark is currently investigating the integration of carrier grade communication services into automated information systems for translation into tangible visual report/design data. Mark continues to present lectures regarding his past and current work at conferences around the globe.
Gary Michael Dault
Gary Michael Dault is a Toronto writer, artist and art critic. He has taught at a number of Canadian universities and written for many newspapers and magazines including the Toronto Star, and Canadian Art magazine. He teaches Modernisms:Twentieth Century Culture and Criticism at Waterloo School of Architecture.
Kevin Fleming
Kevin Fleming works with Stantec and teaches the Lighting portion of our second year Acoustics and Lighting course.
Tammy Gaber
Tammy holds Bachelor degrees in Environmental Studies and in Architecture from the University of Waterloo and a Masters of Architectural Engineering and a Doctorate of Philosophy from Cairo University. Tammy Gaber has taught design, theory and building sciences in different schools of architecture for nearly fifteen years including the British University in Egypt and the American University of Cairo. Tammy writes and reviews regularly for various international periodicals and journals and has recently won first prize for a paper she co-authored in the UIA’s 2011 architectural research competition. Tammy has contributed a chapter on Egyptian design in the book Diversity in Design: Perspective from the Non-Western World.
Bill Gastmeier
Bill is a graduate of the University of Waterloo’s Engineering programme and is a Professional Engineer. He teaches mechanical Systems II to 3B students, outlining acoustical and lighting problems and solutions for their buildings.
Vincent Hui
Vincent holds several degrees including a Masters degrees from Waterloo (M.Arch) and Schulich at York (MBA). He divides his time serving as a partner with the design firm Atelier Anaesthetic and teaching at Ryerson University. He is a tenure track faculty member at Ryerson University. He serves on several committee for UW Masters Candidates. He is working with Professor Terri Meyer Boake on several research projects including creating the technical illustrations for "Understanding Steel Design", to be published by Birkhauser in Fall 2011, and "Steel Connections" for the Steel Structures Education Foundation.
Lloyd Hunt
Lloyd Hunt is principal and owner of an architecture practice based in Glen Huron, Ontario. A graduate of the Waterloo School of Architecture, Lloyd worked in a commercial architecture firm in Toronto before founding his own practice in 1994, which specializes in rural residential, commercial and recreational buildings. During the Spring Term, Lloyd teaches Timber Design and Environmental Systems to the 2B class, as well as running a parallel Timber Design course for 4A civil engineering students. In the Winter Term, he unravels the mysteries of the Ontario Building Code and Planning Act for the Master’s students, and teaches a Master’s level course in specification writing.
Janna Levitt
Janna is a graduate of the University of Toronto. Her practice, Levitt-Goodman Architects, is very active in the design of housing projects and public facilities in the city. She teaches in the fourth year studio.
David Lieberman
Educated in architecture, sculpture and industrial design at Cornell University in New York, California Institute of the Arts, California Institute of Technology, and the Architectural Association in London, England, David Lieberman has been a practicing architect since 1974. For over twenty years, a practice based in urban design, residential design, and cultural facilities has been balanced with teaching at the University of Toronto, the University of Waterloo, and York University. Teaching at the University of Waterloo has included core design studios and the Masters Thesis programme. Research has, of late, focused on listening to the sounds and desires of the city, enjoying the pleasures of music and being challenged by the space between notes.
Alex Lukachko
Alex Lukachko is a graduate of the Maste's programme at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. He is a senior associate at Building Science Corporation (Boston and Waterloo) and general manager responsible for operations in Canada. As a researcher and project manager, Alex is involved in and responsible for a wide variety of projects, including design facilitation for high performance, low energy buildings; building material research and development; and building performance failure investigations. He has taught third year building science and design studio. Alex can be reached by email.
Brigitte Luzar
Brigitte is a graduate of University of Toronto and practices with Kohn Shnier Architects. Brigitte has recently returned to the University of Toronto where she is pursuing a specialized Masters of Architecture degree. She teaches in the first and second year studio.
Shelagh McCartney
Shelagh McCartney is a Doctoral Candidate at Harvard Graduate School
of Design, and is a graduate of Harvard University where she completed
her Masters in Urbanization and Housing and the University of Waterloo
where she completed degrees in Environmental Studies and Architecture.
Shelagh's
research is focused on growth patterns of rapidly growing cities in the
third world and the impact of these patterns on the integration of the
informal and formal built environments. She is a licensed architect,
teaches at the University of Waterloo in the first and fourth year design
studios and Harvard University in graduate level urban theory, development
and design courses. Shelagh practices globally in over 6 countries and
has secured wins in three international competitions, including co-leading
the Canadian team on the currently being realised Toronto Central Waterfront
Plan.
Brian Musson
Brian has a Bachelor of Fine Art from the University of Guelph, and a Post Graduate Diploma, Drawing and Painting from Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland, UK. He works as a sessional instructor of printmaking at McMaster University, and at the Cambridge Art Gallery, Riverside Studio where he teaches a printmaking elective in third year.
Farid Noufaily
Farid is a graduate of University of Waterloo School of Architecture. In 2008 he received the OAA Guild Medal for his Master of Architecture thesis. In the fall of 2006 he was a visiting lecturer at Notre Dame University in Junieh Lebanon while conducting research on Place des Martyrs and the rebuilding of Beirut Central District. His current research focuses on Diaspora identity, and the migrant experience and its relationship to housing and home making.
Barbara Ross
Barbara is a graduate of the UW School of Architecture, class of ‘83. After obtaining her License in Ontario, and practicing for 22 years, she entered the M.Arch. program to find out how an architect’s primary decisions might really lower the environmental loads of cold climate, non-residential buildings. She is a member of the Editorial Committee of Perspectives, the Journal of the Ontario Association of Architects, a practitioner of Tai Chi, and a macrobiotic cook. She teaches Architectural Practice: Ethics, Professional Liability and Business, in the M.Arch. program.
Tim Scott
Tim is a graduate of Waterloo and principal in Natale and Scott Architects, a well-established Toronto practice. He has been a regular instructor in the fourth-year programme for a number of years.
Elise Shelley
Elise is a graduate of the University of Virginia with a Bachelors of Science in Architecture, a Masters of Architecture and Masters of Landscape Architecture. As a practitioner in architecture and landscape architecture in Toronto, her projects and research focus on the interdisciplinary nature of urban public space. As an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, Elise teaches studio design and site technology courses in both the Architecture and Landscape Architecture programs. At the University of Waterloo she teaches the fourth year course, Theory and Design in the Contemporary Landscape.
Scott Sorli
Scott graduated in Engineering from the University of Waterloo and has a B. Arch from the University of Toronto. Principal in Sorli Associates, he is also a widely published author, architectural critic, and curator.
Geoffrey Thün
Professor Thün complements his academic training in Sociology, Environmental Design, Architecture and Urban Design with a record of award winning professional practice and design work that has received extensive acclaim both Nationally and Internationally. In 2005, he was project architect for 3 of 10 Canadian Architect Awards bestowed across the nation that year. He is currently a partner in Velikov + Thün Building Studio and RVTR Inc, whose current work includes housing and landscape based urban planning projects in China, Thailand and Argentina. During the past year he has been an invited critic at SUNY Buffalo, TCAUP Michigan, Ryerson University, and the University of Toronto. Research areas include: landscape infrastructures and urban agriculture, mapping as projective a research methodology, social and environmental sustainability, phenomenological approaches to spatial and tectonic practice, the investigation of sound and architecture, prefabricated sustainable structures, in 1996 he coined the term ‘Experiential Section’ and has been investigating the potentials of this emergent drawing type in his teaching and research since.
Kathy Velikov
Kathy Velikov is is a partner in the Toronto-based practice RVTR, and Chair of the Canada Green Building Council’s Academic Committee. She was recently awarded a Young Architects Forum award from the Architectural League of New York. In 2006-07 Kathy was the Oberdick Fellow at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. Kathy is currently faculty lead and professional collaborator for the Waterloo/Ryerson /SFU entry to the 2009 Solar Decathlon. Most recently RVTR received an honorable mention in the Living Steel 3rd International Sustainable Housing Competition. Recent publications include a chapter on urban agriculture in GreenTOpia:Towards a Sustainable Toronto (Coach House Books) and a chapter entitled “Post-Carbon Highway,” will be published in the forthcoming FUEL (Alphabet-City/MIT Press). Kathy’s work and research focuses on complex ecological, economic, and social structures and processes and built environments that are shaped by advanced materials and technologies.
Tim Wickens
After graduating from the University of Toronto, Tim worked in the offices of Ian MacDonald Architect and Hariri Pontarini Architects. He is currently completing his first projects under his own name.
Corey Zurell
Cory is a graduate of the University of Waterloo and the University of Ottawa. He is a senior structural engineer with the Blackwell Bowick Partnership and directs the firm’s Waterloo Region office. Cory teaches structural systems in third year and assists with the fourth year design studio.
EMERITI
Michael Elmitt (Professor Emeritus)
Professor Michael Elmitt joined the University of Waterloo School of Architecture in 1971. Following a distinguished career as a designer in the U.K. Michael’s work has been well documented in numerous design journals. As Design Consultant his work in the U.K. included concepts for the automobile, shipping and aircraft industry as well as major architectural concepts. Since coming to Canada his work has gained considerable recognition and includes architectural concepts, furniture, exhibition, graphic and small boat design. As well he has curated the work of other notable artists and designers in Canada and continues to exhibit his own work. Michael is presently academic advisor in the Department of Independent Studies.
Brian Hunt (Professor Emeritus)
Brian is Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. He retired in 2005, a tenured faculty member who had taught at every level in the school of architecture. A graduate of the Architectural Association in London, England, Brian worked as an architect in Europe and Canada, before opening his own practice in 1967. In addition to contributions on several architectural books and conference papers, Brian played a pivotal role as Associate and Acting Director at the University of Waterloo, also serving as Acting Associate Dean in the Faculty of Environmental Studies and as a member of the National Advisory Committee for the RAIC Syllabus Program. He made profound contribution in the early years of the School of Architecture at Waterloo, influencing both the curriculum and the approach to teaching that characterizes the school to the present day.
Reinhold Schuster (Professor Emeritus)
Reini, a Professional Engineer, received his PhD from Iowa State University, and is the author of Standards Manuals for Cold Formed Steel. He holds a cross appointment with Civil Engineering and teaches structure-related courses in the BES Programme.
Fred Thompson (Professor Emeritus)
Fred Thompson has made extensive study of the relationship between ritual and space, particularly in Japanese culture. He has further studied the relation of these issues in Japanese culture and Western notions of space. In addition to numerous articles on this subject, he also has published the work Ritual and Space (1988) and a pivotal thesis ‘A Comparison between Japanese Exterior Space and Western Commonplace’ (1988). Thompson has been a visiting professor at various schools of architecture, including: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland; Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, New York, USA; the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, and the Danish Academy of Fine Arts. He worked in the office of Kiyonori Kikutake from 1961 to 1964 and in the office of Prof. Aarno Ruusuvuori from 1965 to 1968.