04.04.25 - Former dean Larry Wayne Richards reflects on architecture’s digital futures in April’s Canadian Architect
Professor emeritus and former dean Larry Wayne Richards has penned a lengthy treatise on design’s digital futures in the April edition of Canadian Architect.
Entitled “What Now? Acceleration and Imagination in Digital Space,” the article in the magazine’s Insites section lays out Professor Richards’s views on “the convergence of artificial intelligence, virtual reality and robotics” in architecture, which he characterizes as “both a real danger and great opportunity” for the field.
“The digital realm and the extended realities of architecture are changing at breakneck speed,” he writes. “There is a sense of something radically different now—an accelerating cyber-avalanche, generating previously unimagined spatial complexity.”
In the piece, Professor Richards (pictured below) buttresses his analysis by weaving in interviews with three leading architects and educators: Meaghan Lloyd of Gehry Partners in Los Angeles, Douglas MacLeod of Athabasca University and Sandra Manninger of the School of Architecture and Design at the New York Institute of Technology.
In one instance, MacLeod tells Richards: “We need legislation to ensure equal access to emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence. A.I. is particularly important because, if unregulated, it will result in job losses across all disciplines, including architecture.”
“In the future,” he continues, “it will be possible for A.I. to produce a fully detailed and code-compliant building design without the need for an architect. We need to think carefully about how A.I. is deployed.”
To read Professor Richards’s article in full, click here.
Professor Richards was dean of the Daniels Faculty from 1997 to 2004. He continues to serve the Faculty as professor emeritus.
Evoking the disorientation of rapid technological change, Some Acronyms, a graphic by Richards and Julie Fish, accompanies Professor Larry Wayne Richards’s article on design's digital futures in the April 2025 issue of Canadian Architect.
17.03.25 - Off to Italy: Daniels students and alumni among this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale fellows
The Daniels Faculty will be well represented at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, running in the Italian city from May 10 to November 23.
In addition to lecturer and Applied Technologies Director Nicholas Hoban, who is on the creative team representing Canada at the 19th iteration of the event, a number of Faculty students and alumni are among the nearly two dozen recipients of Biennale Fellowships supported by Canada’s Council for the Arts.
The fellows, says the Council, which bestows the fellowships on architecture students and emerging arts practitioners from across the country, “will conduct independent research in Venice and serve as exhibition ambassadors at the Canada Pavilion, engaging with a global audience including architects, artists, designers, scholars and cultural leaders.”
“The Canada Council is delighted to support this year’s fellows as part of Canada’s long-standing engagement with the Venice Architecture Biennale,” Michelle Chawla, Director and CEO of the Canada Council for the Arts, said in a statement announcing 2025’s recipients.
“This is a diverse group of passionate, creative thinkers who will expand their independent research in an international context and enrich the Canada Pavilion. The fellows’ participation will deepen the conversation on how art and architecture meaningfully impact and strengthen society, in Canada and all over the world.”
Among the recipients associated with Daniels and U of T are:
Renée Powell-Hines Master of Architecture student Powell-Hines is an artist and aspiring practitioner who views the field of architecture and design through the lens of equity, ethnography and sustainability. Her passion for technology focuses her master’s degree coursework on digital fabrication and robotics, with the goal of making contemporary fabrication methods more sustainable and accessible in the hopes of integrating this optimized making method into affordable housing.
Tanis Worme Worme is a non-binary/gender fluid Plains Cree (nēhiyaw) student pursuing their MVS in Curatorial Studies degree at Daniels. While their education in architecture is rooted in Ontario, their design sensibilities are grounded in their lived experiences as an urban Indigenous person from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Their growing body of studio work considers notions of memory through blood and storytelling. Their design ethos builds on these themes, drawing from intellectual traditions to deconstruct inaccessible architecture and offer alternative narratives of compassionate spatial interventions.
Lane Johnson MARC graduate Johnson is an architectural designer who works at the intersection of design, research and practice. His thesis at Daniels focused on bio-climatic architecture in the Caribbean. Johnson has worked on projects in the Caribbean, Canada and the United States.
Darian Razdar Razdar is a writer, artist and independent scholar who acquired his Master of Science in Urban Planning at U of T. Razdar’s practice is embodied, ecological, collaborative and research-intensive, often working with the mediums of poetry, image, textile and print. His publications include Edge Theory (Silverfish, 2025), Morning Poems (San Press, 2023) and COUNTER-MAP: A Poetics of Place (Reflex Urbanism, 2022). His practice is currently based in Toronto and Mexico City.
Adrian Yu Yu received his Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies degree at Daniels. He is currently an architectural designer and photographer at Toronto-based Office In Search Of. Yu is also a visual artist interested in designing composite images as a way to generate critical narratives on architecture and the built environment. Memory, culture and emotion have become areas of interest in his work and motivate the use of interdisciplinary techniques spanning photography, illustration, photogrammetry and digital rendering to study their implications on our experience of space.
This year, a total of 21 fellows will be travelling to Venice from Canada. For the full list of fellowship recipients, click here.
Powell-Hines portrait by Kodi Ume-Onyido. Worme portrait by Carmelle Martinez. Johnson portrait by Yugo Takahashi. Razdar portrait by Chellise Michael. Yu portrait by María Chen Liang.
20.03.25 - April 2 reception to cap off retrospective ROB|ARCH exhibition in Toronto
A retrospective exhibition showcasing work that came out of the ROB|ARCH conference held simultaneously at the Daniels Faculty and at TMU last year is currently on view at InterAccess Gallery in Toronto.
Work from each of those workshops is on view in the InterAccess show, which runs until April 5. Entitled Beyond Optimization: ROB|ARCH Retrospective, the exhibition has been led by Anderson, Hoban and Mollica.
On Wednesday, April 2, a closing reception will take place between 7:00 and 9:00 p.m. at InterAccess, which is located at 32 Lisgar Street. All are welcome to attend.
A free public event showing participants how to draw paper illustrations from digital designs using the Universal Collaborative (UR) robot arm is also being held on the last day of the exhibition.
13.03.25 - Prize recipients break bread with donors at Faculty’s annual Student Awards Breakfast
Students, donors, faculty and staff came together at the Faculty Club recently for the yearly breakfast gathering celebrating student award recipients and those who support them.
This year’s Student Awards Breakfast took place in the main room of the Club on the morning of February 26.
A total of 216 students from across the Faculty’s disciplines were supported through 41 awards in 2024/25. Many were in attendance at the breakfast last month.
“In hosting this event today, we are very pleased to be bringing together our faculty, our many generous donors and our talented award recipients, the latter having distinguished themselves academically and as student leaders,” said Acting Dean Robert Levit, who introduced the proceedings.
“At the University of Toronto,” he continued, “awards have been a part of academic life for nearly 200 years, contributing immeasurably to U of T’s achievements and to its global reach. Today, as the funding of post-secondary institutions by government continues to decline, the support by donors of endowed scholarships, awards, prizes and bursaries at universities is crucial.”
Among the new awards singled out by Dean Levit (pictured below) was the Nelda Rodger Indigenous Student Award in Architecture and Design, a renewable award that provides financial support to full-time Canadian students of First Nations, Inuit and Métis heritage in the Faculty’s Architectural Studies program.
This award, he noted, is the first of its kind devoted to the study of architecture at U of T.
Matthew Arnott, a third-year Master of Landscape Architecture student, was one of two award winners to address the breakfast gathering. The recipient of this year’s Claude Cormier Award in Landscape Architecture, he expressed how much the award, which was established by the acclaimed landscape architect and alumnus before he passed away in 2023, meant to him personally.
“Claude, being queer, Canadian and unapologetic in his design approach, has long served as a source of personal inspiration, blazing a trail for so many young designers like myself that previously did not exist,” Arnott said.
“To Claude and the folks at CCxA [Cormier’s Montreal-based practice], I’d like to express great thanks for establishing an award that makes graduate education so much more accessible and, more broadly, for their celebration of creativity, whimsy and humour in their approach to design.”
Olivia Carson, a student in the Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies program, also addressed the breakfast. She is a recipient of a John and Myrna Daniels Foundation Opportunity Award.
“I have been fortunate to have my family, peers and professors as my greatest supporters and inspirations,” Carson said. “But even with that support, there are moments when external recognition is needed—a reminder that what we are doing [as students] matters.”
“These awards,” she continued, “do just that; they nurture curiosity, fuel ambition and enable students to embrace learning as more than just an academic pursuit, but as a lifelong endeavour. Their support reminds us that education is not just about meeting requirements but [also] about exploration, creativity and growth. I would like to express my gratitude to the John and Myrna Daniels Foundation for the award I have been granted and for their generous contributions to the Daniels Faculty.”
In concluding the event, Dean Levit thanked both Carson and Arnott for sharing their experiences.
“You have painted a touching picture of the importance of recognition by others,” he said, “and of the impact of the kind of financial support shared by all of the award recipients who have joined us this morning.”
As of this year, the Daniels Faculty administers more than 125 donor-supported funds, a large proportion of which are devoted to student aid and recognition.
All photos by Richard Ashman
07.03.25 - From South Africa to Toronto: Onu Okoli’s journey as an international architecture student
At the start of the 2023-24 school year, Onu Okoli boarded a flight from her home in South Africa, her life packed into several suitcases, ready to begin her studies in Toronto. We get a firsthand view of Okoli’s journey in the 22-minute documentary International Students: First 48 Hours in Canada. Now in her second year of the Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies (BAAS) program at the Daniels Faculty, Okoli reflects on her experiences as an international student at the University of Toronto, offering valuable insights for others considering a similar path.
From grappling with the decision to pursue architecture to settling into residence and immersing herself in the vibrant culture of Toronto, Okoli shares her perspective on life as a student in one of the world’s most diverse and exciting cities.
To go back to the beginning: What influenced your decision to study at the University of Toronto? Was architecture always the subject that you wanted to pursue?
I honestly was not certain about what I wanted to study, and struggled a lot to make the decision as I was finishing high school. It always seemed like a far away idea that I had played around with in thought, but then suddenly I was confronted with the need to make a decision when university applications started opening up. I think I always knew deep down inside I wanted to pursue architecture, I just kept ignoring and avoiding it because I didn't know much about architecture at all. I had never even met an architect in person and thought it was an unrealistic desire. Eventually, after many hours spent on aptitude tests, and long, hard conversations with those close to me, I dove head first into my pursuit of becoming an architect.
I grew up in South Africa but was always very interested in studying abroad and experiencing life in another country while completing my studies. Eventually, along my long and wide search through hundreds of universities, I came across University of Toronto's Architectural Studies program at Daniels and really liked the idea of studying in the center of a city as bustling as Toronto and a school as notable as the University of Toronto. I did not expect to get in whatsoever but still submitted my portfolio by compiling my best works and was lucky enough to be afforded this opportunity.
In the documentary International Students: First 48 Hours in Canada, you shared your journey to Canada from South Africa (including the airline losing your luggage!) After filming stopped, how did you find settling into your new home on campus?
Settling into residence was surprisingly one of the most exciting parts of my journey. Living in residence, surrounded by other first-year students who were often new to the city or even the country, gave me the chance to explore the city with others and slowly learn our way around. The first few weeks in residence were filled with excitement, and I had the opportunity to make new friends and try new things.
Being so close to campus made life much more convenient, especially as an architecture student, traveling back and forth with huge rolls of paper and models. Residence life has definitely been a big part of my journey here—so much so that I’m now working as a Don, which is pretty funny considering where I started.
What are your top tips for future international students thinking of attending U of T or the Daniels Faculty in the fall? Was there one thing in particular that prepared you the most before you left home?
I think you just have to dive into the process head first. No matter how many “days in my life as a U of T” student videos I watched or how many notebooks and drawing materials I packed, nothing can really prepare you for an experience as new as university life.
I think it takes some adjusting, especially coming from a different country, but it's important to remind yourself that you were admitted into the school for a reason. The University of Toronto receives over 150,000 applications each year, meaning that someone clearly thought you were capable of and highly deserving of the chance to be here. Trust in yourself and try your best! Everything will eventually end up just fine.
Now that you’ve made it through your first year in the BAAS program here at Daniels (and first semester of second year), what has been your favourite course so far?
ARC200 Drawing and Representation II was definitely one of my favourite courses so far. We had the opportunity to choose a study street anywhere in Toronto and complete a set of studies on it, culminating in us providing a proposal for the site. Me and my partner chose a portion of Danforth under the Greektown BIA. I've now visited that area a dozen times and could probably map it from memory but the experience of being there, talking to locals and even eating amazing Greek food on the street patio will stay with me forever.
This project gave me the opportunity to explore a new side of the city in extreme depth. Lectures were very enjoyable because it taught me a lot about Toronto as a city and how it developed along with its main streets. My instructor, Reza Nik, was extremely encouraging, making the course enjoyable every step of the way, and I am proud of the work we produced in the end.
Project drawings by Okoli for ARC200 Drawing and Representation II.
What's the most surprising thing you’ve learned?
I think the most surprising thing I’ve learned is just how diverse Toronto is. Coming from South Africa, I didn’t expect such a mix of cultures, and it’s been pretty cool to see how much I can learn from meeting people from all over.
What are you excited about as you look ahead to summer and your third year on campus?
I look forward most to the weather warming up again! It's definitely still going to take a long while for me to get used to the cold and the snow. I'm really excited for the summer to recharge and explore more of Toronto. As for third year, I’m looking forward to having a more tailored academic experience with streams being introduced. It will be interesting to see how things develop. I’m also excited to continue meeting new people and simply gaining more life experiences.
It feels like every year brings something new and challenging, and I can’t wait to see what this next one holds!
03.03.25 - Black Diasporas exhibition to open at 1 Spadina on Tuesday, March 11
A community-focused exhibition that documents and celebrates the experiences, spaces and places that have significance to Black Torontonians will open in the Faculty’s Architecture + Design Gallery on Tuesday, March 11.
Black Diasporas Tkaronto-Toronto is an interactive exhibition and geolocated digital archive featuring over 500 stories and 12 commissioned short films created by more than 150 Black Torontonians.
The multifaceted project exemplifies how oral narratives, filmmaking and exhibitions can be both archival and aspirational—archival in celebrating the diversity of Black life and communities in Canada’s largest city and aspirational in articulating the hopes and dreams that manifest within the built environment.
In 2024, architect and academic Kholisile Dhliwayo discussed the tenets and methodology behind Black Diasporas Tkaronto-Toronto (as well as a Naarm-Melbourne version) as part of the Faculty’s annual Public Program series.
Dhliwayo is a founding member of afrOURban Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to documenting and celebrating the spaces that have meaning to Black communities worldwide.
Since 2017, the organization has, in addition to Toronto and Melbourne, hosted exhibits and screenings in Manahatta-New York City, Tiohtià:ke-Montreal and Warrane-Sydney. The Black Diasporas project was started by afrOURban in 2020.
Located on the lower level of the Daniels Building, the Architecture + Design Gallery is open Monday to Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
To watch Dhliwayo’s 2024 lecture at Daniels, visit the Faculty’s YouTube channel by clicking here.
Image by Bonn Creative from the exhibition Black Diasporas Naarm-Melbourne.
24.02.25 - MARC, MLA and MUD students in Integrated Urbanism Studio propose new life for Downsview Airfield
The Integrated Urbanism Studio (ARC2013/LAN2013/URD1011) serves as a core component of the architecture, landscape architecture and urban design programs at the Daniels Faculty, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration to address the complex challenges of 21st-century urbanism.
During the Fall 2024 term, the graduate studio focused on the decommissioned Downsview Airfield in Toronto—a transformative project with the potential to house over 80,000 residents. This ambitious undertaking positions Downsview as one of North America's most significant urban redevelopments, offering a unique platform for students to explore and address critical urban planning and design issues.
Students developed transformative schemes from creating a new agricultural food hub and an integrated water management system, to reevaluating systems of home ownership and reconsidering the site as a regenerative landscape. Read on to learn more about the diverse array of group projects.
Block-by-Block
Students: Jason Chen, Riling Chen, Shixun (Peter) Wang, Zixuan (Kathy) Zhou Program: MARC Instructor: Chloe Town Website: rescaling-downsview.cargo.site
"Downsview Airport, located in the northern part of Toronto, is a site shaped by its aviation history. Following its decommissioning, the linear runway remains vacant, resembling a gash in the landscape and surrounded by isolated neighborhoods that function like archipelagos. The unused land has become the subject of intense speculation, particularly for condominium developments. However, these large-scale, top-down plans often result in homogeneous ownership models and architectural typologies, which deter social diversity.
Our scheme, Block-by-Block, explores the question: How can we build incrementally? At the urban scale, we re-evaluate the rectilinear property lines that define much of Toronto’s fabric and systems of ownership. These alternative ownership models facilitate smaller scale building typologies, fostering more intimate and interconnected communities. At the individual scale, each unit is designed to be flexible, equipped with essential plumbing and electrical infrastructure but left unfinished, allowing residents to customize their spaces according to their needs and preferences."
Terrain Bound
Students: Kiana Rezvani Baghae, Benjamin Dunn, Patrick Minardi, Orly Sacke Program: MLA Instructor: Fadi Masoud Website: terrainbound.cargo.site
"Terrain Bound challenges the convention of boundary-making in city-building processes, arguing that large scale developments should be planned holistically, in connection with adjacent communities and with respect to existing ecologies. Downsview’s history as an airport has been defined by the assertion of rigid boundaries. While the airport’s function has ceased, its legacy persists in the surrounding neighbourhood. Our project identifies key boundary conditions and reimagines them as opportunities to bridge, buffer, and rebalance Downsview’s insular condition."
Reimagining Urbanism Through Integrated Agriculture
"Toronto has lost 62.5% of its agricultural land, and with a growing population and the climate crisis, this project puts food security at the forefront of its development. This project transforms an industrial site into a new urban food hub, integrating agriculture across community, public, industrial, and institutional scales (S-M-L-XL). Through vertical farming retrofits to hangar buildings, banded field/greenhouse conditions, a new food terminal, and strategic connectivity, the site evolves as population and food needs grow. It envisions a self-sustaining urbanism, where housing and food production coexist, creating resilient systems that redefine city living—balancing density, sustainability, and food security as an essential urban infrastructure."
"The project restores connectivity by integrating the site into the city fabric through three public connectors linked to the ecological network. An east-west green connector and extended street networks strengthen ties to the urban context, while the former runway becomes a vibrant pedestrian strip. Four distinct districts emerge, featuring diverse building typologies that balance density, porosity, and privacy. Green fingers activate Downsview Park, and existing structures are adaptively reused as amenities, unifying the overall vision."
"Embracing Afterlife explores the evolving narrative of Downsview Park, where the past, present, and future coexist. The park’s ecological memory, shaped by history, climate, and industrialization, leaves traces in its soil and plant communities. Our guiding quote, 'every environment bears a palimpsest of its past. Every woodland is a memoir made of leaves and microbes that catalog its 'ecological memory,' helped encourage us to think beyond the site as it presently exists.
Our project honors this afterlife by integrating the site’s history, particularly the runway’s past into its future design. By repurposing materials like old concrete, fallen trees and stone, we created an integrated circulation plan that reflect the potentiality of the site as a highly regenerative landscape. Interwoven through these repurposed materials is a robust planting plan that aims to remediate the site’s soil from chemicals and create a multi-seasonal space that entirely leads with landscape."
Everything, Everywhere, All At Once
Students: Ardy Chang, Nathan Shakura, Sharon Lam, Siena Buzzelli Program: MARC Instructor: Christos Marcopoulos Website: integrated-urbanism.cargo.site
"Key terms that we examine throughout our project are: ultimate mixed use, fine grain, weaving, democratic planning, community life. The overarching concept for our proposed plan of Downsview Park involves the homogenous redistribution of the Framework Plan to weave together land use patterns of Toronto. We are critiquing the Framework plan which proposes an urban 'island', neglecting its surrounding neighbourhoods. Our project considers what mixed use means at the scale of the community and the city. We approach mixed use design by splitting up and rearranging the Framework’s land use plan evenly throughout Downsview Park. The Framework Plan is developer driven and we are challenging it with a radically democratic, fine grain, community-driven project."
Runways to Waterways
Students: Andy Lee, Ryan Grover, Olivier Beaudoin, Ram Espino Program: MLA Instructor: Fadi Masoud Website: runwaystowaterways.cargo.site
"Runways to Waterways transforms Downsview’s former airfield into an integrated water management and urban ecology system. Positioned at the ridge of Toronto’s watersheds, it captures, stores, and filters water, mitigating lowland flooding while creating biodiverse public spaces. Repurposed runways form basins that direct stormwater through cloudburst roads, detention streets, and green corridors back into the Humber and Don Rivers. These interventions not only slow water, but establish dynamic spaces for recreation, education, and ecological restoration."
GREEN THREADS: Weaving Nature Through Urban Hyperdensity
Students: Jack Ahn, Casper Li, Suet Wing (Sylvia) Lo Program: MLA Instructor: Fadi Masoud Website: highdens.cargo.site
"GREEN THREADS: Weaving Nature Through Urban Hyperdensity is a visionary response to Toronto’s rapid growth and escalating urban sprawl. This high-density experiment challenges conventional development by seamlessly integrating nature and city life, creating a compact, efficient, and vibrant urban fabric. Drawing from global precedents, it weaves together a transit-oriented nucleus, mixed-use towers, and dynamic public spaces—maximizing vertical and horizontal potential to cultivate a resilient, livable, and ecologically adaptive future."
The Strip
Students: Nour Fahmy, Timothy Soribello, Ming Yin Program: MARC Instructor: Samantha Eby Website: downsviewthestrip.cargo.site
"The Strip explores the role of open spaces in urban settings, questioning what draws people to gather and how design can foster connectivity, inclusivity, and a sense of community. Through a carefully designed framework of the strips, each with distinct functions and typologies, we have created a dynamic and adaptable environment that encourages diverse social, cultural, and economic activities. This approach not only accommodates the growing needs of the population but also strengthens the collective identity of Downsview, making it a vibrant and welcoming destination for all."
Downsview in Reciprocity
Students: Olivia Chan, Susan Xi, Ariel Zhang Program: MARC Instructor: Mariana Leguia Alegria
"The proposal for Downsview reimagines Toronto living as a community-centric and regenerative urban model of local food production, affordable housing, and sustainable infrastructure. Strategies of adaptive reuse and flexible planning are prioritized while providing design agency for residents. In reciprocity, community members become stewards of the land and actively participate in culture sharing and learning through nature as they engage with the social amenities within the central park and its green-fingers that weave the site back into the surrounding context."
Production City
Students: Huzaifa Chughtai, Jacob Majak, Oliver Parsons Program: MARC Instructor: David Verbeek
"Downsview, with its vast expanses of underutilized land, presents a unique opportunity to address farmland loss caused by urban sprawl. Production City utilizes Downsview to develop a prototype for harmonious relationships between food production, the city, nature, and people. By employing the Westland greenhouse model, we aim to boost food production through urban agriculture. This method utilizes UV lights for year-round plant growth, allowing us to ultimately feed nearly 80,000 people, about 75% of our revised Downsview population."
21.02.25 - On offer in Summer 2025: Studies Abroad, Internships and Design Build opportunities
Whether you want to explore Berlin through film, design an agrarian prototype in Costa Rica, get hands-on experience with AI tools and robotic fabrication or intern at one of Toronto's top design firms, there is plenty for Daniels Faculty students to choose from this summer.
These courses are available to undergraduate Architectural Studies and Visual Studies students in all streams who have completed 1.0 credit of ARC courses at the 200-level before Summer 2025 (including fourth-year students graduating this June). MARC, MLA and MUD students are also invited to apply.
Design Build
Design Build offers a hands-on approach to course material:
These courses are available to undergraduate Architectural Studies students in all streams who have completed ARC200H1 and ARC201H1 before Summer 2025 (including fourth-year students graduating this June). MARC, MLA and MUD students are also invited to apply.
Design Research Internship Program (DRIP)
The Design Research Internship Program places third- and fourth-year Architectural Studies students with leading Toronto design practices for a period of six weeks during the May-June summer period. Check out @drip_daniels.uoft for testimonials and examples of student work.
06.02.25 - “The desert architect who brought back a river”: Aziza Chaouni featured in BBC Outlook episode
Associate Professor Aziza Chaouni was the subject of a recent BBC Outlook podcast episode that focused on her upbringing in Fez, Morocco and on her return years later as a recently trained architect on an epic journey across the Sahara Desert.
Chaouni was the first Moroccan to study architecture at Harvard University, where her thesis advisor and mentor, Hashim Sarkis, encouraged her to pursue a project close to home—one inspired by social responsibility to a community versus a starchitect’s vision for a monumental building.
In the end, Chaouni set out to restore the heavily polluted river that runs through Fez's ancient medina—and found her true calling in the process.
04.02.25 - Join virtual discussions for the Land Practices/Prácticas de la tierra graduate seminar
The graduate seminar Land Practices/Prácticas de la tierra (ARC3313) taught by Rafico Ruiz (Canadian Centre for Architecture) seeks to situate a range of ‘land practices’ to document how the land holds memories, marks and modes of orientation across subject positions that include humans, but also exceed our capacity to articulate relationships to land.
Designers, artists and researchers from Indigenous, Afro-Colombian and other communities in Colombia will contribute to the seminar discussions.
Daniels students, faculty and staff are invited to tune in virtually on Mondays from 6-7:30 p.m.
February 10 Josefina Klinger Zúñiga with Pedro Aparicio-Llorente
Colombian environmentalist and community activist Josefina Klinger Zúñiga and Pedro Aparicio-Llorente, architect and founding principal of APLO, will discuss:
Afro-Colombian land rights and knowledges
Environmental activism and education in Nuqui, Chocó
March 10 Gilma Mosquera with Pedro Aparicio-Llorente
Gilma Mosquera is an architect, teacher and researcher with a wide trajectory on the habitat of the Colombian Pacific and Afro-Colombian ways of creating domestic and urban spaces.
Topics covered
Afro-Colombian-defined architecture on the Pacific Coast
