paths to practice

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

WELCOME

Paths to Practice is a day long event hosted by the School of Architecture and Co-operative Education to bring together students, professionals, faculty, and co-operative education in exploration of current Architectural practice and employment opportunities.

sponsored by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and the Ontario Association of Architects

additional links:
www.architecture.uwaterloo.ca
www.cecs.uwaterloo.ca
www.oaa.on.ca
www.raic.org

SCHEDULE

11:00 am - Keynote - John van Nostrand, planningAlliance

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm - Student Lunch sponsored by OAA and RAIC

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm - Student Panel Session

PANELISTS:
Aziza Chaouni

Francesco Martire
Francesco Martire holds a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture and a Master of Architecture, both from the University of Toronto. Francesco is a registered Architect with the Ontario Association of Architects, a registered Landscape Architect with the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects, and a full member of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects. In addition he is a LEED Accredited Professional who has worked on several LEED projects.

Francesco’s professional experience includes both landscape and architectural projects at various scales across Canada and internationally, developing a body of work which includes, large scale master plans, public and institutional buildings, multi-unit residential projects, and residential landscapes. Drawing on his background in both architecture and landscape architecture, his work is concerned with an integrated approach to the design of built form and landscapes.

Francesco is a Sessional Lecturer at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto, where he has taught design studios in both the Master of Architecture and the Master of Landscape Architecture programme, and a site technology course entitled Site Engineering and Ecology in the Master of Architecture programme. He has served as a guest reviewer at both the University of Toronto and the University of Waterloo.

Francesco has worked at the offices of HOK, Bortolotto Architects, and is currently working at Teeple Architects.

Meg Graham
Meg Graham is a principal of superkül inc | architect in Toronto, an award-winning architecture and design firm. The work of the practice has been recognized with six national and four provincial design awards, and one urban design award; it has been reviewed or featured in over sixty local, national and international publications. The firm portfolio is broad, including residential (single family and multi-family), commercial, institutional / public sector, and master planning. Projects completed and currently in design or construction include some for the University of Toronto, the Town of Newmarket, private developers and a long-term care facility.

Meg holds degrees from the University of Waterloo (B.E.S and B.Arch) and Harvard University (M.Des.S.) Awards from Waterloo include the AIA Gold Medal and the Smale Fellowship. She graduated from Harvard with distinction.

Meg is the past-Chair of the Toronto Society of Architects, and a member of the Board of Directors of Fort York. She sits on the Harbourfront Centre’s Architecture Space advisory committee, and is a founding director of Twenty + Change, a national exhibition of the work of emerging Canadian architects and urban designers.

Meg has taught design at at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto since 2001. Since 1999, Meg has been visiting faculty at the University of Waterloo, and a critic at SUNY Buffalo, Syracuse and Waterloo Universities, and the Rhode Island School of Design. She has been a visiting lecturer at Dalhousie University and the University of Lethbridge.

Chris Hardwicke
Chris Hardwicke is an associate of Sweeny Sterling Finlayson &Co Architects and an urban designer with over twelve years of experience. He is a fellow of the Urban Design Institute in New York, a Recognised Practitioner in Urban Design in the UK and a member of the Council for Canadian Urbanism. Chris has taught at the University of Waterloo, University of Toronto and the University of Art and Design in Helsinki. He is on the steering committee for the Toronto Centre for Active Transportation. His commitment to city building is internationally recognized through award winning projects such as the Waterfront Master Plan for Kaohsiung, Taiwan; exhibitions at the Dieppe Biennale, the Van Alen Institute in New York; and, publications such as The Good Life: New Spaces for Recreation, and GreenTOpia: Towards a Sustainable Toronto.

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm - Professional Development Session for Practitioners

The Dark Side of Architecture
Given by University Professor, Cultural Historian and Author, Robert Jan van Pelt

Histories of architecture record triumphs such as the Parthenon, the Pantheon, the Cathedral of Chartres, the Escorial, and Crystal Palace. Each of these buildings is a testament to the highest skills, imagination and aspiration of both individuals--architects and their clients--and societies. Yet these histories do not provide any attention to the depths to which architects have descended. At the University of Waterloo School of Architecture, the ultimate crime in architecture, embodied in the Auschwitz gas chambers, has been part of a school-wide conversation since the founding of the school in 1967. How and why did this school raise the question of the criminal responsibility of architects, and in what way did this question evolve in the 43 years that followed?

3:00 pm – 5:30 pm - Networking Café

To reserve a spot in the Networking Café or Professional Development Session, please contact Donna Woolcott at 519-888-4567, ext. 27604. Or complete the attached Registration Form and submit to Donna Woolcott.