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05/16/2013

From over 300 entries, Daniels alum Fadi Masoud (MLA 2010) and a group of his colleagues are finalists for the SIXTYNINE SEVENTY: The Spaces Between International Design Competition. Entitled MULTI-GRID, the team’s design proposes a bold vision for two square blocks in downtown Salt Lake City.

05/10/2013

On April 25, 2013 the University of Toronto hosted the annual 'Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work' day. U of T faculty and staff's children aged 8-12 were invited to explore various faculties and departments across the three campuses. About 30 children chose to visit the Daniels Faculty to learn about architecture and design. Associate Professor Laura Miller spoke to the group about building cities and emphasized using their imaginations to create their own model using scraps of wood, a base, glue guns and coloured pieces of paper.

05/06/2013

In 2010, the University of Toronto’s John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design created a state-of-the-art green roof research facility on top of its building at 230 College Street. Now, the interdisciplinary research team behind the Green Roof Innovation Testing Laboratory, or GRIT Lab, has launched a new website — grit.daniels.utoronto.ca — which will allow it to share the results of its work with a much broader community.

05/06/2013

Associate Professor David Lieberman is participating in the summer exhibition "Everything Loose Will Land" at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House from May 9 to August 4, 2013.  The exhibition, curated by Professor Sylvia Lavin of UCLA, will explore the cross-pollination that took place between architects and artists in Los Angeles in the 1970s, a time when the autonomy of art forms yielded to convergences, collabora

05/06/2013

GRIT Lab principal investigator Liat Margolis and assistant researchers Catherine Yoon (MLA 15) and Matthew Perotto (MLA 15) received a MITACS Accelerate grant supporting research with industry partners Tremco Roofing and Bioroof Systems.

04/30/2013

Julia Smachylo Todd Douglas, and  Dave Freedman — pictured above with Dean Richard Sommer and Master of Landscape Architecture Director and Associate Dean of Research Robert Wright — each received a

04/30/2013

Assistant Professor Aziza Chaouni spoke this past Saturday, April 20 at Northwestern University’s Block Museum as part of the panel discussion “The Modern Capital: City, Utopia  or Spectacle?”.