Ian Chodikoff

Ian Chodikoff (M.Arch, MAUD, OAA, MRAIC) is an architect and the editor of Canadian Architect magazine.

He holds graduate degrees in architecture and urban design from the University of British Columbia and Harvard University respectively. His professional interests focus on enabling mechanisms for social change at the urban scale. He has undertaken studies ranging from the conflicts between the natural and man-made influences of Vancouver's Stanley Park to the relationships affected by migration, remittances, and urbanization between Italy and Senegal. Over the past two years, he has helped facilitate a series of charrettes and initiatives with the City of Toronto and the Design Exchange with the goal of improving the built environment in several priority neighbourhoods across Toronto. He is currently working with the City of Toronto's Live with Culture division to create a new park for Scarborough youth. In 2008, he will be presenting a project exploring the effects of multiculturalism on Toronto's suburban communities entitled Fringe Benefits: Cosmopolitan Dynamics of a Multicultural City. As an affiliate of the Institute for International Urban Development in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he is currently working on improving the delivery of housing mechanisms in Africa. Ian has lectured in various schools and cities across North America, served on numerous juries and has written in a variety of magazines and journals on issues ranging from planning to sustainability.