full-time faculty
Rick Andrighetti (Continuing Lecturer)
Email | Website | Room 2009 | EXT 27610
Rick received his B.Arch. from Waterloo in 1984. His design work, in
conjunction with Toronto firms, has received numerous awards, including
a Governor General’s Medal in Architecture. He has taught in numerous
design studios over the years, with an emphasis on design fundamentals.
He has also taught courses in landscape theory and design. Research
interests include: Canadian architecture and landscape history and theory;
contemporary landscape design; relationships between buildings and the land;
land art.
Philip Beesley (Professor)
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Website |
Room 3019 | EXT 27640
Philip Beesley MRAIC OAA (Professor School of Architecture, University of Waterloo; examiner University College London) is an architect developing responsive kinetic architectural environments that approach near-living functions. His work is widely cited as a pioneer in the rapidly expanding technology of responsive architecture. He has authored and edited eight books, three international proceedings and a number of catalogues, and appears on the cover of Artificial Life (MIT), LEONARDO and AD journals. He has been responsible for some 150 architectural projects. He was selected to represent Canada for the 2010 Venice Biennale for Architecture, and has received worldwide press including WIRED, TEDx, Discovery Channel features. Distinctions include Prix de Rome in Architecture (Canada), VIDA 11.0, FEIDAD, Dora Mavor Moore and a number of Distinguished Performance awards from Waterloo. His graduates have received 2 Fulbright and 2 Tsinghua fellowships and the Berkeley prize. Beesley’s funding includes core CFI, SSHRC, NSERC and Canada Council for the Arts grants and he served as Dissemination Director for the NCE-funded Canadian Design Research Network. His service includes executive board member for ACADIA (Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture), and adjudicator for numerous grant programs.
Terri Meyer Boake
(Associate Professor/Associate Director/
Undergraduate Affairs Officer)
Email | Website | Room 3012 | EXT 27634
Terri is a graduate of the Waterloo School of Architecture, and she also
received an M. Arch. from the University of Toronto. Terri teaches in our
Technology, Environmental and Digital Theme areas. She is also the Undergraduate
Officer for the HBAS program, and the Associate Director for the Undergraduate
programme. She teaches ARCH 172: Building Construction 1, Arch 226: Environmental
Building Design and Arch 443/646: Architecture and Film in the fall term, and
ARCH 173: Building Construction 1 and 125: Introduction to Environmental Design
in the winter term. Research interests include: technology, environment, carbon
neutral protocols, and the development of architectural design; material and
structural development; architecturally exposed structural steel, daylight in
buildings, solar energy, and climate-based design; development of a database of
case studies in sustainable building; relationship between architecture and its
expression in modern film, photography, film production and web design. She is
the Past President of the Society of Building Science Educators and President Elect of the Building Technology Educators' Society. She has published the "CISC Guide for Specifying Architecturally Exposed Structural Steel". She has also recently published "Understanding Steel Design: An Architectural Design Manual" for Birkhauser. The book was released in November 2011.
Anne Bordeleau (Assistant Professor)
Email | Website
| Room 3013 | EXT 27635
A registered architect in Quebec, Anne Bordeleau was awarded a PhD from
the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies (University College London, UK)
after receiving her professional degree and Masters in the history and
theory of architecture from McGill University (Montreal). Her research
interests include the epistemology of the architectural project, as well
as the historiographical and practical bearing of investigating the
relations between architecture and time. Her teaching, research and
practice have covered many fields, from medieval to modern cultural
history, nineteenth-century architectural history and theory, the
question of the preservation and communication of culture through
architecture, and aspects of Chinese architectural heritage.
Elizabeth English (Associate Professor)
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Website |
Room 2017 | EXT 27617
Dr. English has her PhD and Master of Science in Architecture from the
University of Pennsylvania. She has a Master of Science in Civil Engineering
from MIT. Her undergraduate degree is an A.B. from Princeton in
Architecture and Urban Planning. She was formerly an Associate Professor -
Research at the Hurricane Centre in the Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering at Louisiana State University. She has
taught Structures, Construction and Design at the Schools of Architecture
at Tulane, Minnesota and Michigan. At Tulane she was responsible for
the complete and apparently very successful overhaul of the structures
curriculum. Dr. English has a strong record of research in technical
fields such as damage from wind-blown debris and wind loading in tall
buildings. She also has a record of publication on Russian modernism.
Rick Haldenby (Associate Professor/O’Donovan Director)
Email | Website | Room 2101 | EXT 84544
It would not be an overstatement to say that Rick is the heart and soul of
the School of Architecture. He is a very proud graduate of the Waterloo
School of Architecture and remarkably has been its Director since 1988.
He is the founder of our Rome Program, a teacher in the Iconography Theme
area, and a recipient of the Distinguished Teacher Award. He has also been
involved in archeological work in Italy, Carthage and Malta and runs the
mid-size city research program. Research interests include: Mediterranean
archaeology; design and management of historic landscapes and sites; design
in mid-size cities; and community/university partnerships.
Andrew Levitt (Continuing Lecturer)
Email | Website | Room ARC 2011| EXT 27612
Andrew Levitt teaches graduate and undergraduate design studio courses.
He holds a degree in architecture from the Architectural Association,
London, England and a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology from Chestnut
Hill Collage in Philadephia. He is the author of, THE INNER STUDIO; A
Designers Guide to the Resources of the Psyche. In addition to lecturing
on the subject of architecture, imagination and the psyche he is a practicing
psychotherapist.
Marie-Paule Macdonald (Associate Professor)
Email | Website | Room 3004 | EXT 27628
Marie-Paule Macdonald studied architecture in Nova Scotia, and obtained a
Bachelor of Architecture from Dalhousie University. She studied urbanism
in Paris and obtained a graduate degree from the University of Paris VIII,
studying with Françoise Choay. She is a registered architect, member of
the Order of Architects of Québec and RAIC. She has coordinated graduate
design studios in Montréal as well as urbanism studios. Recent published
projects include Emptiness and Imagination in Informal Architectures, London
in 2008, and Voids and Residues in La Demeure. She also has a book Rockspaces,
published by Art Metropole in 2000, and another published work Wild in the
Streets, which was a collaborative project with Dan Graham, published in 1994.
She presented work at the Informal Architecture Symposium, the Banff Centre in
2004, and worked within the Dab Collective, among four finalists who participated
in the ‘Quartier des Spectacles’ workshop in 2005. Research interests include
contemporary architectural and urban design, theory and practice, landscape
architecture, urbanism, contemporary sculpture and their inter-relations.
Donald McKay (Associate Professor)
Email | Website | Room 2014 | EXT 27615
Donald is a graduate of the University of Toronto and has designed many widely
published and award-winning projects including both buildings and furniture.
He is teaching ARCH 100 and ARCH 110 this fall. Research interests include:
contemporary architectural design; composition, tectonics and manufacturing
practice; continental infrastructures; vernacular artifacts; furniture design;
domesticity; photography.
John McMinn (Associate Professor/Graduate Officer)
Email | Website | Room 3009 | EXT 27632
John is a graduate of the Architectural Association and McGill University,
and has taught and lectured at many schools of architecture in Europe and
North America. He practices in Toronto, is a frequent curator of exhibitions
on architecture, and has published widely in journals on contemporary Canadian
architecture. He has written books on the cultural dimensions of contemporary
sustainable architecture, 41º to 66º: Regional Responses to Sustainable
Architecture in Canada, and on Canada’s leading engineering practice, Yolles:
A Canadian Engineering Legacy. He was the recipient of the 1992-93 Prix de
Rome in Architecture for Canada. His exhibition 41º to 66º: Architecture
in Canada – Region, Culture, Tectonics, co-curated with Ryerson University
Professor Marco Polo, was selected to represent Canada at the 2008 Venice
Biennale for Architecture. Research interests include: architectural design,
environmental technology, cultural issues in sustainability, materials and
building construction, design of structures, Canadian architecture,
architectural criticism.
Lorenzo Pignatti (Associate Professor)
Email | Website | Rome | EXT 011-3906-581-2918
Lorenzo, who received a B. Arch. from the University of Rome and an M.Arch.
from the University of Toronto, is the Director of the Waterloo Rome Program
and he also teaches at the Facoltà di Architettura in Pescara (Italy). Based
in Italy, Lorenzo has an architectural office in Rome. Research interests
include: architectural design and urbanism; relationship between history
and design; rehabilitation of industrial sites and relationship between
architecture and landscape.
Maya Przybylski (Assistant Professor)
Email | Website | Room 2018| EXT 27618
Maya Przybylski is a Toronto based designer and educator. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto (M.Arch. 2007) where she was awarded the Royal Architectural Institute Medal for her thesis work on post-oil opportunities for the Caspian Sea. Maya previously earned a degree with a specialization in Software Engineering at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto (B.Sc.Hon. 2003). Maya has taught at the University of Toronto, Ryerson University and the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo. Through her own practice Maya has collaborated with a range of design practices including: RVTR, Lateral Office, WilliamsonWilliamson, and Bruce Mau Design. In 2008, Maya became a director of InfraNet Lab, a non-profit research collective probing the spatial byproducts of contemporary resource logistics. The Lab's research into urban infrastructures is published in Pamphlet Architecture 30 (2010). Maya is co-editor of On Farming, Bracket 1 (Actar, 2010).
Dereck Revington (Associate Professor)
Email | Website
| Room 3007 | EXT 27630
Dereck is a graduate of the Architectural Association, London, recipient of
the Canada Council Prix de Rome in Architecture,(1991-92) and has taught at
Universities across Canada, in the USA and Italy. The works of Dereck Revington
Studio encompass architecture, commissioned public sculpture, museum
installations and performance, and over the last decade have been installed
and exhibited in Rome, Madrid, Lisbon, New York and Toronto. Commissions
and awards include: Reaching for Nothing: Water’s Thirst-2008 (world premier
of contemporary opera, authored and co-created with Composer Peter Hatch -
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics), Skin of fLight (large three
piece bronze sculpture, Lester B. Pearson International Airport -2006, The
Luminous Veil, Toronto -2002 (Canadian Architect Award of Excellence 1999)
The Girl with no Door on her Mouth-2002 in collaboration with Phillip Beesley
((Dora Mavor Moore Award for outstanding stage design and lighting design
for electro-acoustic opera) and Downsview Park International Design Competition
(Finalist - with Bernard Tschumi Architects(NY) and Sterling Finlayson Architects
(TO) Research interests include: Poetry ,Theory and Design.
Val Rynnimeri (Associate Professor)
Email | Website | Room 3006 | EXT 27629
Val is a graduate of the Waterloo School of Architecture and has been an adjunct
faculty member since 1981 and a full-time faculty member since 1990. He also
has an MA in History from the University of Guelph. His design work has won
numerous competitions and awards, and focuses on urban design and land
development, the landscape urbanism of the urban periphery, and the ecosystem
design of green infrastructure. For undergraduates, he teaches the
“Architecture of the Urban Environment” course in the 3B term, and the
cultural history course “Enlightenment, Romanticism and the 19th Century”
in the 3A term. At the graduate level, he co-ordinates an M1 masters
studio focusing on sustainable design, and teaches a course in the
“Ecosystem Design of Urban Landscapes”. Research interests include:
urban and environmental design; urban peripheries and abandoned city
centres; the urban forms of globalization, ecosystem planning and
management; the history of designed communities
Lola Sheppard (Assistant Professor)
Email |
Website | Room 2012 | EXT 27655
Lola Sheppard has a B.Arch from McGill University and an M.Arch from Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Lola’s work and research exists at the intersection of architecture, landscape, and urbanism. It privileges architecture as a mutable territory that is formed out of and responsive to its environment and to the cultural, social and economic imperatives of its context. Design is conceived of as a system for open patterns of use and active engagement rather than merely arranged objects. It is often situated within sites where the systems and codes that determine these environments must be uncovered and rethought. Recent research questions infrastructure’s potential to become more mutable, scalable and responsive and in the process, generate new ecologies, economies and public realms.
Lola founded Lateral Office in 2002 in partnership with Mason White. Prior to this, she worked in architecture firms in Rotterdam, Paris, and London (UK). Lola is also a Director of InfraNet Lab, an exploratory initiative launched in 2008. InfraNet Lab is a non-profit research collective probing the spatial byproducts of contemporary resource logistics. InfraNet Lab is an editor of the journal Bracket: Architecture, Environment, Digital Culture.
Lateral Office was awarded the Emerging Voices from the Architecture League of New York in 2011 and the 2010 Professional Prix de Rome from the Canada Council for the Arts. In 2005, the practice was selected for the Young Architects Forum from the Architectural League of New York and in 2003, Sheppard and White were the Lefevre Emerging Practitioner Fellow at Ohio State University in 2003-04. Lateral Office has won or been shortlisted for competitions internationally, including WPA 2.0 (2009), Vatnsmyri Masterplan, Reykjavik (2007), Orphan Spaces (2006), Metis Garden (2005), Memphis Riverfront (2003), Future Glasshouse (2002).
Lola is co-author of Pamphlet Architecture #30 titled COUPLING: Strategies for Infrastructural Opportunism, published by Princeton Architectural Press (2010) and co-editor of the second issue of Bracket titled [Goes Soft], to be published by Actar (2011). Lateral’s work has been published in Landscape Architecture China (2010), Young Architects: Situating (Princeton Architectural Press, 2006), Landscape Architecture, C3 and l’Arca. Lola’s writing has been published in Canadian Architect, On Site, Alphabet City: Water (MIT Press, 2009), and 306090. Lola has lectured and exhibited work in Canada, the US, Germany, Iceland, and England. She previously taught at University of Toronto (2005-06) and Ohio State University (2003-04), and has been an invited critic at the Universities of Toronto, Michigan, Buffalo, and Yale, McGill, Laval, and the Architectural Association, among others.
Ryszard Sliwka (Associate Professor)
Email | Website | Room 3016 | EXT 27637
Ryszard Sliwka studied and practiced art and architecture in Britain,
the United States and Canada and has a Masters in Architecture and
Urban design from Washington University, St Louis. Current research
focuses on the themes of Mimesis, Materiality and Immateriality, both
in art and architecture. A second area of research examines the social
and economic forces transforming the current Urban Landscape.
In 2006 he began an M1 Europe studio based in Rome.
John Straube (Associate Professor)
Email |
Website | Room 2021 | EXT 27621
John Straube has a PhD in Civil Engineering as well as an MSC from Waterloo.
He has a cross appointment with the department of Civil Engineering and teaches
Building Science to the second year class, structural electives and often
assists with consulting the other years. Research interests include: Building
and building enclosure performance (durability, energy efficiency, health,
sustainability) as a function of use, climate regions, microclimates, etc.;
heat, air and moisture transport within building materials and systems;
new and sustainable building products, materials, and systems.
Robert Jan van Pelt
(University Professor/Graduate Officer)
Email | Website | Room 2022 | EXT 27622
Cultural historian and author, Robert Jan earned a D.Litt. from Leiden University
and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in recognition of his scholarly work.
He has written several highly acclaimed books, and he is world-renowned for his
extensive research into issues surrounding the architecture of the Holocaust.
He recently completed a book on Jewish refugees from Nazi persecution, and he
is presently working on a book on the culture of tourist trips to the death
camps in Germany and Poland. He will be teaching the First Year Cultural History
course this fall. Research interests include: History and philosophy of
architecture and urbanism; the history of the Holocaust; German extermination
camps; Holocaust denial; problems in historiography.
Tracey Winton (Associate Professor)
Email | Website| Room 2013 | EXT 27614
Tracey Eve Winton is a graduate of the Waterloo School of Architecture, and
has practiced architecture in Canada. She has an M. Arch. in the History and
Theory of Architecture from McGill University where she worked with Alberto
Perez-Gomez, and a Ph.D. in the History and Philosophy of Architecture from
Cambridge University in England, with Dalibor Vesely. Her doctoral dissertation
was on the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. She is Director of Studies in the
Waterloo Rome Program, and teaches Design Studio and Italian Urban History
in Rome. In Cambridge she teaches Iconography as part of the Cultural History
stream, including staging an annual theatrical production, and graduate
seminars in Urban Agriculture and Architecture and Literature. She has
traveled in Africa, the Middle East, Asia Minor, India, Pakistan, Europe,
and America. Research interests include agrarian gardens, landscape
urbanism in Rome, landscape in Renaissance painting, Neoplatonic and
Hermetic philosophy, natural magic and alchemy, architectural ruins
and spoils, and the art of memory.