adjunct faculty
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.
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.
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 a variety of courses at the University of Waterloo, ranging from industrial design to digital visual communication with the School of Architecture, and to design studio and urban design theory with the School of Planning.
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.
Brian Musson
Brian has a Bachalor 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.
Andrew Levitt
Andrew is responsible for the Comprehensive Building Design fourth-year studio. He was educated at the Architectural Association in London and practices in parallel as a psychotherapist.
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.
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.
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.
Rick Pottruff
Rick did his graduate work at the Ruskin School of Art at Oxford University and at St. Martins School of Art in London. He makes large-format, socially engaged drawings that have been exhibited across Canada. Rick teaches Architecture 110.
Vis Ramasubramanian
Vis is a graduate of the University of Toronto, with over 8 years experience working in architecture. After gaining experience with design offices in the Rotterdam, Toronto and New York, he began his own Toronto-based practice, Design in Progress. His recent work has focused on public projects located in challenged urban communities. Vis is leading an initiative to bring a U.S. based Urban Plan program to Canada, to be taught at the high school and university level. He teaches in the first year studio.
Cindy Rendely
Cindy is a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture, University of Toronto. Also trained as a goldsmith, jeweler and metal artist, Cindy has a continued interest in detailing at all scales. CINDY RENDELY ARCHITEXTURE is a small, design studio with a focus on architecture, interiors, furniture and product design. Currently, the studio is working on several residential projects, including both renovations and new construction as well as renovations of various commercial, office and interior spaces. The first public building commission recently awarded to the studio is a Synagogue. In addition, a product line called OBJEX is being developed. These objects are directly related to the studio’s design philosophy as it applies to the larger architectural design solutions.
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.
Liza Stiff
Liza is a graduate of the University of Toronto. Her professional experience has focused on residential, educational, and commercial architecture in Toronto, Ireland and New York. While in New York, Liza worked with the award-winning Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. Liza has previously taught at the University of Toronto in the Master’s of Architecture program. She currently works at the Toronto firm, gh3, on a variety of architecture, landscape and urban design projects.
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.
Rufina Wu
Rufina is a graduate of the University of Waterloo where she completed degrees in Environmental Studies and Architecture. She also studied at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China as a CCSEP Visiting Scholar from 2005 to 2006. She received AIA Medals for her B.Arch thesis (Three Gorges Commune, 2005) and M.Arch thesis (Beijing Underground, 2007). Her research interest focuses on informal housing tactics associated with rapid urban development and population mobility. She splits her time between Hong Kong, Vancouver, and Toronto.
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.