Brady Peters is a Canadian designer and researcher who successfully bridges technology and design. He has significant expertise in the use and development of design technology, in integrative construction, and in digital fabrication. With many years of experience in practice, Peters has successfully collaborated with experts in architecture, engineering, and computer science.

Peters specializes in architectural acoustics, environmental simulation, computational design, and digital fabrication. He uses computer programming, parametric modelling, and simulation to design performance-driven forms, and is skilled in the communication and fabrication of buildings with complex geometry. He received his PhD in Architecture from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, Denmark, a Professional Master of Architecture from Dalhousie University, a Bachelor of Environmental Design (Distinction) from Dalhousie University, and, Bachelor of Science in Geography (Distinction) from the University of Victoria.
 
Professionally, Peters was an Associate Partner at Foster + Partners, one of the world's most highly regarded architecture practices. As a key member of the Specialist Modelling Group (SMG), the office's internal research and development consultancy, Peters was involved in many projects using complex geometry and environmental simulation. He has a multi-disciplinary approach to design and has also worked in the London office of design-led engineering practice Buro Happold.

Academically, Peters teaches graduate level courses in design studio, computational design, comprehensive building design, and visual communication focusing on parametric modelling and digital fabrication.  He also teaches computation and design in the undergraduate program. Peters is a Director of Smartgeometry, an organization that promotes the use of computation in architecture.  He has published 25 peer-reviewed papers, written five book chapters, and edited two books. He is also the author of Computing the Environment: Digital Design Tools for Simulation and Visualisation of Sustainable Architecture (Wiley, 2017).

Carol Moukheiber has taught at the American University of Beirut, the California College of the Arts and UC Berkeley, and has worked for design offices including SOM (NYC), and Bruce Mau Design (Toronto). She was the founder and co-director of the RAD lab at Daniels (2012-2015) probing the impact of emerging technologies on the physical environment. Her office, Studio (n-1), works with playful attention on projects traversing different scales from urban design, architecture, and building assemblies to domestic objects, manuals, and clothing. The built and conceptual projects, along with the physical prototypes have served as experiments for a flirtatious architecture that plays an active/subjective role — where all matter is recognized as vital, dynamic and expressive in shaping the perceptual experience of the inhabitant. The firm’s work has been acquired by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and has been published widely in academic and mainstream media including The New York Times Magazine, Praxis Journal of Architecture and Domus. The studio is the recipient of the Architectural League of New York, Emerging Voices 2012 award. Publications include The Living, Breathing, Thinking Responsive Buildings of the Future [Thames & Hudson 2012] and co-editor of Wild Wild Urbanism, Redesigning California [CCA 2006].

Laura Miller joined the Daniels Faculty in Fall 2010 as an Associate Professor of Architecture.
 
She is a partner in borfax /BLU, a research-based design office that seeks to renegotiate the disciplinary boundaries between architecture, landscape, and urban design in its work. Her proposals for the redevelopment of large urban areas, such as Hell’s Kitchen (Manhattan) and Mission Bay (San Francisco) have been exhibited and published, most recently in Fast-Forward Urbanism: Rethinking Architecture's Engagement with the City (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010). Miller’s design work has received several AIA awards and citations and a Progressive Architecture Design Award citation.
 
Prior to joining the Daniels Faculty, Miller was an Associate Professor for over a decade at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. In 2003-2004 she was the American Fellow in Architectural Design at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study. Miller was on the faculty at SCI-Arc and has held visiting appointments at UCLA, Rice, Washington and Iowa State Universities. She holds degrees in architecture from Harvard University and Iowa State University.

In addition to her design work, Miller’s theoretical research encompasses the archiving and display of objects, the socio-cultural meanings of materials and artifacts, and the ways in which the spaces of domesticity have been construed historically in both popular culture and design discourses.

Francesco is a registered architect with the Ontario Association of Architects, a member of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, 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 and has worked on several LEED projects. He holds a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture and a Master of Architecture, both from the University of Toronto.

Francesco is a principal and co-founder (with Nadia Cannataro) of large [medium] design office, a cross disciplinary practice engaged in architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, and urban design. Drawing on his background in both architecture and landscape architecture, the practice is concerned with an integrated approach to the design of built form and landscapes, and also displays sensitivity to site as a critical component of its work. Investigations into materials, assemblage, fabrication and construction techniques are utilized to fund innovative design solutions. He is also a principal and co-founder (with Nadia Cannataro) of small [medium] design objects, an allied company focused on graphic, furniture, and industrial design.

Francesco’s professional experience includes both landscape and architectural projects at various scales across Canada and internationally, and he has developed a body of work including, large scale master plans, public and institutional buildings, multi-unit residential projects, and residential and institutional landscapes.

Francesco teaches studios in the Master of Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture programs as well as Site Engineering and Ecology, and Urban Site Technologies I at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design. 

James Macgillivray is a lecturer at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. Prior to his position at Daniels, Macgillivray was Assistant Professor of Practice in Architecture at the University of Michigan where he was awarded the William Muschenheim Design Fellowship in 2011.

Along with Vivian Lee, Macgillivray is a founding partner of LAMAS a design practice with projects in Italy, Canada and the United States. LAMAS was a 2014 finalist for MoMA's PS1 Young Architects Program. Macgillivray is a filmmaker and has published on film, architecture and projection in Scapegoat, ACSA Journal, The Journal of Modern Craft, the Canadian Journal of Film Studies and Tarkovsky, a collection of writings on the work of Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. In conjunction with his work at LAMAS he is currently writing a book that delineates the notion of space in the arts of architecture and film.

Before founding LAMAS Macgillivray worked as a designer at Steven Holl Architects and as a project manager at Peter Gluck and Partners Architects where his project won the 2013 AIA Housing Award.

Alex Lukachko is a Building Science consultant and educator. He teaches the integration of energy, building science and design concepts in the architecture programs at the University of Toronto.

Lukachko has active research interests in the development of future building enclosure systems and the design of high performance, low-environmental-impact buildings. In particular, he is interested in the link between architectural design and quality assurance that ensures high building performance. These interests are part of a long-term pursuit of effective (and measurable) sustainable building practices.

An Te Liu is Professor in the Master of Architecture Program at the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto. He holds an Honors BA in Art History and Renaissance Studies from the University of Toronto and a Master of Architecture degree from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in Los Angeles. After working in the studio of Frank Gehry Associates and as a project designer in firms in Paris and Los Angeles, he was co-founder and design principal of the multi-disciplinary practices Hedge and Space International, both based in Los Angeles.

Since 1999, he has been engaged in sculpture and installation work which explores issues of function, occupation and cultural coding in the domestic and urban realms. Liu's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including the the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, EV+A Ireland, the Venice Biennale of Architecture, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Liu has been artist in residence at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, which published the monograph, An Te Liu : Matter in 2009. More recently, the catalog An Te Liu : MONO NO MA was published by the Gardiner Museum in conjunction with his solo exhibition there.

Liu has been the recipient of numerous research and creation grants from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council. In 2007-8 he was the recipient of the International Artist Residency in Berlin awarded by the Canada Council for the Arts and in 2007 he received the Emerging Voices award from the Architectural League of New York.  Liu's work is included in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), The Art Institute of Chicago, and the National Gallery of Canada.  It has been published in Metropolis, Frame, Praxis, Thresholds, Azure, Art Papers, Surface, Canadian Art, Art In America, BE, Canadian Architect and the Journal of Architectural Education. The monographic catalog, An Te Liu : Matter, was published by the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in 2009. More recently, the catalog An Te Liu : MONO NO MA was published by the Gardiner Museum in conjunction with his solo exhibition there. Upcoming exhibitions include the Kunsthalle Vienna, the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Art Labor Gallery in Shanghai, and the 2014 Biennial of the National Gallery of Canada.

Curriculum Vitae

BFA (Cal Arts), AA Dipl (London)

Educated in architecture, sculpture, and industrial design at Cornell University in New York, the California Institute of the Arts, the California Institute of Technology, and the Architectural Association in London, England, David Lieberman has been a practicing architect since 1974. Teaching responsibilities include thesis, urban design, comprehensive building studios, and lecture seminars in drawing and in the culture of architecture. 

Current work in a studio practice includes technical consultancy to millwork and steel fabricators, several residences in the Toronto area, a fourplex in Manhattan, and a studio for a video artist. Ongoing research activities include materials development and testing with a focus on concrete and glass and the development of generative architectures in projects such as a manipulable ceiling that can be played as an instrument in the orchestra. Sustainable or responsible practice includes the reconstruction of North House, the University of Waterloo entry to the Solar Decathlon, as a permanent laboratory. 

Recent publications include research on sustainable architectures, speculative and constructed landscapes, and critical works on music, acoustics, sound, and architecture. A recent gallery exhibition showed digital landscape paintings and a film, selected from a larger speculative work; The Alchemist’s Garden and an installation accompanied by a film and dancers. A current exhibition is a sound installation/performance piece. 

Research has, of late, focused on listening to the sounds and desires of the city leading to the construction of a series of large scale instruments. David Lieberman is not a musician, but has enjoyed the pleasures of music and is constantly challenged by the space between notes.

Prior to joining the University of Toronto, W.H. Vivian Lee was an assistant professor of architecture at University of Michigan since 2009. She is an architect and a founding partner of LAMAS, an interdisciplinary studio focused on issues of craft traditions and perception in architecture and the fine arts.
 
Her research focuses on the role of craft and labor practices in architecture and building. Lee's writings, teaching, and design work have touched on the concept of craft in several diverse subjects including professional practice, labor, vernacular traditions, and ornament. She is currently working on the book "Building Stories: At Work in Contemporary Practice."

Lee's firm LAMAS was a 2014 finalist for MoMA's PS1 Young Architects Program. In addition, she has won the 2011 R+D Award and has received honorable mentions in I.D. Magazine, Architizer+ Awards, and ACSA Faculty Design Awards. Prior to LAMAS, Lee practiced as a project manager at SHoP Architects and LTL Architects in New York City. While at SHoP Architects, she co-led her team to earn a P/A Award for the East River Waterfront project in 2008.
 
Lee received her masters of architecture from Harvard's Graduate School of Design. She holds a B.A. in studio arts from Wesleyan University with a concentration in painting.​

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BASc (Ottawa), MASc, PhD (Toronto)

Ted Kesik is a professor of building science in the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto with a career focus on the integration of professional practice, research and teaching. He entered the construction industry in 1974 and has since gained extensive experience in various aspects of building enclosure design, energy modeling, quality assurance, commissioning, performance verification, and building systems integration. Professor Kesik’s research interests include resilience, sustainability, durability, high performance buildings, life cycle assessment and building performance simulation. His current research involves the development of design guidelines for low-carbon buildings that are resilient, sustainable and promote climate change adaptation. Dr. Kesik continues to practice as a consulting engineer to leading architectural offices, forward thinking enterprises and progressive government agencies. He remains actively involved in technical organizations and is the author of books, studies, reports and articles related to his areas of research and professional practice.