Projects and Publications

Mason White

Assistant Professor

Director, Master of Architecture Program

mason.white@daniels.utoronto.ca

416-978-0850

BArch (Virginia Tech), MArch (Harvard)

Runways to Greenways - 2007-08 | Urban Redevelopment

Mason White

Project Date:

01/02/2008 (All day)

Our design proposal for the Vatnsmyri area of Reykjavik seeks to simultaneously acknowledge the rich history of the site while looking forward into the promising future of this unique city. Reykjavik is poised to be a leading city in culture, sustainability, and recreation, and the Vatnsmyri is critical to that potential.

THICK2D - 2007-08 | Furniture Prototyping

Mason White

Project Date:

01/01/2008 (All day)

THICK2D is a collection of recent work from lateral architecture addressing 'room-sized' installations. Each piece acts as a prototype reconceiving basic domestic issues of storage, light, rest, and consumption. The prototypes capitalize on the idea of material thickness through nesting, stacking, stitching, and excavating. These methods explore the resistance, dexterity and atmosphere of common materials such as foam, felt, plywood, paper, and acrylic. Sometimes bordering on the absurd, the prototypes question how we engage with objects in our material culture.

Playscape

Mason White

Project Date:

01/01/2007 (All day)

Virtually all major professional sports are represented on this site - hockey, basketball, football, lacrosse and baseball; however, all these events invite visitors only as a spectator with litle reason to linger before or after.

Cliffside Slips

Mason White

Project Date:

01/01/2007 (All day)

As Toronto continues to focus almost exclusively on iconographic projects, the city turns its back on the carpet of the city - its street level. Pockets of the city, some exurban, remain neglected as they default to big box stores and their requisite parking lots.

Half-Lies

Mason White

Project Date:

11/01/2006 (All day)

Traditionally, we trust our eyes and the accuracy of our vision. Yet, art is fundamentally about challenging our perception of things, of coaxing the viewer to reconsider the appearance of things.

Pause-Play

Mason White

Project Date:

04/01/2006 (All day)

Reclaiming the shores of Pittsburgh’s Rivers is an opportunity to extend an already existing greenscape and recreational system along the Rivers’ edges.

Spray Pattern

Mason White

Project Date:

01/01/2005 (All day)

An aspect central, indeed necessary, to any garden is water. The image of the lawn with sprinklers has become synonymous with the suburban landscape. There is typically an intricately hidden or temporary nature to the components watering a garden.

Soil Horizon

Mason White

Project Date:

12/05/2004 (All day)

The garden is typically presented as an epidermis of green -- flowers, plants, hedges -- forming an ornamental surface of landscape. There is an unseen thickness, a complex stratification of dirt and soil, which sustains all garden surface activity.

Between Landscapes

Mason White

Project Date:

01/06/2004 (All day)

Only about 5 percent of the land area in the continental United States is composed of wetlands. These transitional zones, neither completely dry nor entirely liquid, are land caught between ecosystems. Just as wetlands are a hybrid between land and water, our proposal for the Calumet Environmental Center exists between landscape and building.

Hives for Learning

Mason White

Project Date:

01/01/2004 (All day)

This proposal originates from two primary observations; 1) That learning occurs through play as much as through classroom activities; 2) Classroom clusters could compact 'wings' in order to allow for greater crossover between clusters.

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