“Places of Production: Forest and Factory” is a new publication from the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, in collaboration with the Canadian Wood Council and the woodSMART Program.

The title comes from the research studio of the same name, led by Professor Robert Wright and Professor Brigitte Shim, that explored the intersection between the disciplines of forestry, architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism.

The studio was an opportunity for Daniels students to explore the critical and relatively untapped relationship between forestry and design. Working with Element5, and using their factory expansion plans as impetus, students reimagined the traditionally insular factory building and explored how it could be combined with new and innovative programs to ensure a vital future for places of production in the life of local communities.

“The forest and the factory are both examples of the continuum from nature to constructed landscapes that speak to our contemporary attitudes towards environmental conservation and production," share Wright and Shim in their introduction. "Each studio group provided an integrated design response to the studio brief, considering the role of the landscape and built form to develop a bold design solution that explored the role of forestry and design simultaneously.” 

Now the publication — available for free through the Canadian Wood Council’s woodSMART Program — provides a platform for further knowledge with accompanying essays from academic and industry experts, as well as the output of the student’s collaborative semester-long research.

Image caption: BC Passive House Factory by Hemsworth Architecture; Forwarder and crane cutting and harvesting logs in Haliburton Forest.

“’Places of Production: Forest to Factory’ presented a valuable opportunity to engage the future architects of our built environment,” said Kevin McKinley, president and CEO of the Canada Wood Council, in his introduction to the publication. “The studio challenged students to harness the strength and sustainability of wood to reimagine what a factory could be in a low-carbon future."

"The five schemes developed in it exemplify CWC’s vision to be a passionate champion of wood construction for an advanced and sustainable wood culture. We applaud the incredible efforts of the studio and encourage these emerging and innovative designers to be our future voices and advocates of wood construction across Canada, and around the world.”

Visit the woodSMART website to download "Places of Production: Forest and Factory."

Image caption: Model of adaptive wetland and ecosystem and services structural model by a student team including Dylan Johnston, Caroline Kasiuk, Michael MacNeill, and Niko McGlashan.

Header image by Craig Heinrich: White River Forest Products is a community-operated sawmill in White River, Ontario. The local forest pictured is processed into lumber, some of which is transported to Element5's CLT factory in St. Thomas, Ontario.
 

Three recent Daniels Faculty graduates from the Class of 2021 sat down with us to remember their time at university and share advice for new and current students. From memorable courses and favourite spots on campus, to critical first-year skills and advice for maintaining balance – read on for their responses.

Sheetza McGarry – Bachelor of Arts, Architectural Studies

What is your favourite memory at U of T and the Daniels Faculty?   

I don't think I can pick just one. However, I would say the community in general. The friendships made at this faculty become your teammates, support network, and family away from home. The relationships formed with faculty members are so supportive and really opened my eyes to the possibilities of architecture and design beyond this academic stage.  

What do you know now that you wish you’d known when starting your program?   

Self-care and socializing are just as important as school. You need to find a balance. It's 10x harder to do your best work alone and when you're not taking care of yourself.  

What skills do you think first-year students should focus on developing?   

Getting used to synthesizing large readings will definitely help with the first-year reading requirements. It also never hurts to get a leg up on the Adobe Suite (specifically Illustrator and Photoshop), Rhino, and AutoCAD. However, most importantly I'd just say keep creating, find what gets you excited and explore it.  

What was your favourite course that you took at Daniels?  

Any of the design studios of course. I also loved Artist's Writings. It was a great way to read pieces from creatives that we learn about in theory classes. From reading their works and having critical discussions about them in class, I discovered a lot about my own practice and places I grappled with my identity within the art and architecture field. The projects that came out of this class are some that I hold closest to my heart, and have gone on to inform the way I approach my artistic practice whether that be visual arts, writing, or architecture and design.  

How do you maintain a good work/life balance?   

It's a constant process of reminding myself to take breaks and step back. Without it, it can get a bit too easy to lose perspective on your work and academics in general. Don't forget to be excited about things outside of school: a meal you're really interested in trying to cook, a park you want to read in, or a new cycling route. Also, surrounding yourself with people you mesh well with will make work/life balance seamless as you'll support one another and remind each other to have fun!  

What is your favourite spot on campus?  

​The Bamboo Garden in the Terrence Donnelly Centre! Brightens any rainy or snowy day.  

What tips for success do you have for first-year students at Daniels? 

Find people you work well with and have fun with and hold on to them. With so much change going on at this stage in life, you'll grow more than you can ever expect. Having a community to do that with is the best feeling as you enter adulthood! Your community will become your collaborators, critics, and of course friends. Finally, remember to take care of yourself and have fun - it'll go by quick so make the most of it!  

Juliette Cook – Master of Architecture

What is your favourite memory at U of T and the Daniels Faculty?   

There are a few, but one of my favourite memory at Daniels comes from first year, when two of the people in my studio and I agreed we would never stay past 10pm. Fast forward to the weekend before the first deadline, we were in studio figuring out how to unroll surfaces and glue our models together, and stayed until about 2am. While we were tired and disappointed we didn’t abide by our ‘rule’, we sort of chuckled about it, and since we all lived in the East end, Ubered home together when we were done. Those two people have remained two of my closest friends throughout the program. You definitely bond during those late nights in studio! 

What do you know now that you wish you’d known when starting your program?   

It is never worth skipping a meal – always take that time away from your computer to nourish yourself and give your brain a break. 

  What skills do you think first-year students should focus on developing?   

I think it is important to ask for support in developing skills to design with climate change in mind; in other words, thinking about embodied and operational carbon. This may take the form of learning software skills (daylighting, energy intensity, carbon accounting, etc.) to learning about societal and environmental strategies for environmental management. One course that I think should be incorporated into first-year learning is Doug Anderson’s ‘Indigenous Perspectives on Landscapes.’

I also think it would be beneficial to have some small group exercises in studio, for example for doing precedent analysis, or even site analysis. Group work is an integral part of being in the field and practicing those skills in school will translate well to any workplace where you would work alongside a team (i.e. most workplaces!) Finally, students should be open-minded to experimenting with different techniques to find what helps to make their work legible and accessible to others. 

  What was your favourite course that you took at Daniels?  

Barring studio courses, my favourite is a toss up between Peter Sealy’s Berlin in Film summer course, and Tei Carpenter’s By Other Means seminar. From the content to the format of the class, I felt very inspired and motivated by these two. 

  How do you maintain a good work/life balance?   

I worked throughout my degree, outside of school as well as a TA in 2nd and 3rd year. While shuffling around the city commuting and also having to work made my schedule quite tight, both of these activities were a welcome break from thinking about schoolwork. It allowed me to take some space from studio and come back refreshed. I also would not compromise on working out / stretching, and even kept a lacrosse ball in my desk drawer to roll out my tired feet. Reserving time for a partner, friends, and family was key – though I wasn’t physically seeing many of these people over the course of the 3-year degree, regular calls during studio breaks or commutes home were good reminders that life goes on after school. 

 What is your favourite spot on campus?  

The PIT! Great spot to have lunch / take a break with a group of friends. I am not sure if everyone calls it the pit, but it is the auditorium space leading up to the grad studio. With COVID, Daniels Gathertown Edition was also a great place to be!   

  What tips for success do you have for first-year students at Daniels?   

My main tip would be figuring out a workflow that allows you to be efficient, while staying excited about what you are working on. If I felt like working on a perspective collage in Photoshop, even without having more technical drawings completed yet, I rolled with that feeling so that I had a rendered vision of my project that would keep me inspired. Starting tests on representation techniques early helped to confirm whether or not what I imagined in my brain would work out on paper! 

Rida Khan – Master of Urban Design

What is your favourite memory at U of T and the Daniels Faculty?   

It has to be during my online thesis presentation when so many of my past and current teachers all took time out to see my final work. I couldn’t stop smiling. I owe my growth as a designer to their guidance and patience and I am grateful to have created those relationships at Daniels. 

What do you know now that you wish you’d known when starting your program?   

Speak up and ask for help, you are not supposed to know everything.  

What skills do you think first-year students should focus on developing?  

Build your communication skills, understand your strengths, and acknowledge weaknesses you can build on. There are students and faculty who can help you inside and outside the classroom to build you up if you learn how to communicate well. 

What was your favourite course that you took at Daniels?  

Superstudio (the joint course between graduate students in Urban Design, Architecture, and Landscape Architecture). It was memorable. Good memories, bad memories. I felt hopeful and powerless at the same time – it was something!  

How do you maintain a good work/life balance?   

During my time at Daniels I had to constantly remind myself that I am in school to learn and not to prove something at the cost of my physical and mental health- we are intending to become designers not participate in Fear Factor. I made a rule for myself to not do all-nighters (I ended up doing a couple) and focus on the quality not quantity of the ideas I brought forward.  

What is your favourite spot on campus?  

The Daniels building is majestic, and I love to point out to friends that I am associated with it. The Graduate Studio where all the Urban Design, Architecture and Landscape Architecture students worked together is a space of student solidarity and potential. I also love that the Multifaith Centre is just steps away for those moments when you just needed to get away, reflect, or pray.  

What tips for success do you have for first-year students at Daniels?   

Soak in where you are: a top design school in one of North America’s fastest-growing cities surrounded by the best teachers. I encourage students to learn from their instructors and proactively engage in opportunities to uplift your colleagues and communities outside of coursework. 

Ambika Pharma, a 2020 graduate of the Daniels Faculty’s Master of Landscape Architecture program, has been awarded a 2021 World Landscape Architecture (WLA) Student Award of Excellence in the Concept-Design category for her MLA thesis project: On Thin Ice. 

The project is a sweeping response to increased maritime traffic through the Bering Strait, which has emerged as a vulnerable ecosystem and a chokepoint for shipping traffic as Arctic Sea ice melts. On Thin Ice sees a “reinvention of nautical systems that wraps economy, trade, and ecology around a new formulation of logistical landscapes and time.” The project proposes different scales of intervention on the Diomede Islands, creating both maritime infrastructure and a proposed bioreserve, “imagined as a device for political and ecological innovation in this tenuous region.”

Pharma’s project was selected from more than 400 other entries for the WLA Student Awards, submitted from landscape architecture faculties around the world. On Thin Ice was also recognized with the Heather M. Reisman Gold Medal in Design, presented by the Daniels Faculty in 2020.

“I was interested in the spatial planning of major maritime chokepoints - natural and manmade straits and canals that bottleneck maritime trade, but also marine ecosystems and migration paths,” said Pharma.

“With the thaw of the Arctic, the Bering Strait is slated to become one of these locations and part of a new Transpolar Sea Route that would change this relatively untouched passage to a high-risk, high-traffic zone surrounding sensitive ecosystems. The project still proposes that the TSR transverses this Strait but creates a new hierarchy where nautical systems prioritize the protection of marine ecologies over logistical efficiency, separating primary production zones, nesting areas and migration routes from vessel access.”

Images: Megastructure; Maritime Chokepoints; Bio Reserve.

“Ambika demonstrated remarkable talent and creativity throughout her time at Daniels, and her capstone thesis project was no exception,” said Fadi Masoud, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism at the Daniels Faculty, and Pharma’s supervisor for her thesis.

“Her thesis imagined a not-so-distant future world in which economic, social, and ecological pressures converge in one of the earth’s most fragile and contested regions – the arctic. She expanded the agency of landscape architecture to envision the future of post-carbon arctic maritime logistical landscapes and an arctic wildlife sanctuary park nestled in between the Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait. Her proposal bends the international dateline around the park to create a space outside of our understanding of normative time and nation states.”

Images: Bowhead; Pond Cell; Geothermal Greenhouse.

Pharma was also recently recognized for a winning design called Moonlight Orgies in the LA+ Creature competition (designed in collaboration with Niko Dellic, while completing his Master of Architecture thesis at the Daniels Faculty). That competition acted as a design exercise that imagined an animal as the client for a design team. Pharma and Dellic’s entry imagined a moody recovery and breeding area for mangrove horseshoe crabs, whose blood is incredibly valuable for use in pharmaceuticals. The project’s proposed design was fully aware of the complex trade off between providing habitat, and treating the animal as resource. Their proposal was similarly connected with the sea, proposed as a facility built on a barge.

“I like ports,” said Pharma. “I’ve always been captivated by activities around maritime infrastructures, their history of major earthworks, and the movement of ships. So, throughout various projects I began studying their roles as critical international passages against their potential as productive landscapes.”

Pharma now works as a designer at celebrated landscape architecture firm Reed Hilderbrand in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

As we celebrate the Class of 2021, the Daniels Faculty invites you to explore the inaugural (virtual) End-of-Year Show. The End-of-Year Show represents a multi-disciplinary collection of student work in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design.

Graduate students, as well as undergraduate students who completed thesis projects, were invited to upload their work and craft their own project pages. Search the show by student name and program, or see a rotating selection of all projects through the home page.

Take me to the End-of-Year Show

The banner image features work from (L-R): 
Jiazhi (Jake) Yin, Landscape Architecture, Advisor: Fadi Masoud
Rishi Tailor, Architecture, Advisor: Adrian Phiffer
Vanessa Wang, Architecture, Advisor: John Shnier
Kurtis Chen, Architecture, Advisors: Mariana Leguia, Angus Laurie
Zainab Wakil, Architectural Studies, Advisor: Jeannie Kim

Assistant professor Fadi Masoud has recently published two pieces of writing on a topic that is central to his research: zoning for climate adaptation and resilience.

The first of the two, which Masoud co-authored with David Vega-Barachowitz, director of urban design at WXY, is a book chapter titled "Flux Zoning: From End-State Planning to Zoning for Uncertainty." It appears in A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation, from Island Press*. The chapter details ways cities and regions might adapt zoning into a tool for long-term coastal and environmental adaptation.

Find out more about the book

Masoud's writing also appears in the latest issue of Landscapes | Paysages, the official magazine of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects. In an article he co-wrote with research associate Isaac Seah, he argues that municipal zoning would be better able to respond to changing climate conditions if urban planners were empowered to take into account data on environmental factors that affect urban land, including topology, geology, and water permeability. As a case study, the article presents some of Masoud's efforts, with the Platform for Resilient Urbanism at the Daniels Faculty's Centre for Landscape Research, to use new technologies to model geophysical and environmental risk factors in flood-prone Broward County, Florida.

Masoud and Seah write:

In many places, these normative zoning codes have rendered themselves extraneous in truly dealing with the impacts of climate change. For example, some regions continue to be zoned for typical future residential land use, knowing they are under severe risk of future flooding. We simply ask: why does land use zoning continue to remain static when we know that landscapes are dynamic?

Read the full article in Landscapes | Paysages

*(Use the code ADAPT at checkout for a 20 per cent discount on the book.)

Top image: Generative codes for an expanded littoral gradient. Image from the Centre for Landscape Research.

In Visual Communication 2 (LAN1022), a course taught by assistant professor Fadi Masoud, first-year Master of Landscape Architecture students develop their drawing and visual representation skills by each studying either a colonial fort or an Indigenous burial mound (known as a tumulus). Students draw the topography of their assigned sites, but the work doesn't stop there. The course calls upon them to develop fictional narratives about their forts or tumuli, then illustrate those narratives in ways that show off different atmospheric conditions.

This year's projects can all be viewed in their entirety on the new Forts and Tumuli website. Below, a few highlights.

Emiley Switzer-Martell

Emiley's site was Fort Jackson, a 19th-century fort located near the mouth of the Mississippi River, in southern Louisiana. Emiley imagined a future when climate change has caused the area around the Mississippi River delta to be abandoned by humans, who can no longer live with the region's frequent storms and flooding. The nearby forests have reverted to an almost primeval state. The drawings show a young girl, one of the area's last inhabitants, wandering the terrain. Emiley studied native vegetation in order to add some verisimilitude to the presentation.

Kiran Khurana

Kiran studied Tuzigoot National Monument, an Arizona archaeological site that includes the ruins of a Sinagua pueblo. Visitors to the site can tour the remains of a 110-room village that is believed to have been abandoned centuries before the first European settlers arrived in the Americas. In her research, Kiran discovered that the monument is now an important site for birdwatching. Her drawings show the site transformed into a reserve for those birds. She created a haunting, lonely atmosphere by drawing vast, colourful horizons by hand.

Benson Zou

Benson chose the Prince of Wales Fort, an 18th-century fort in northern Manitoba, originally built by the Hudson's Bay Company to help secure the local fur trade. The fort was handily captured by three French ships in 1782. "It's this majestic looking fortress, but it was actually really easy to take over," Benson says. His drawings reimagine that event from the perspective of an Inuit child who has a premonition of the ships' arrival in a dream. Benson studied paintings of Inuit communities to help him render the scene.

Ying Zheng

Ying's project dealt with Poverty Point, a Louisiana historical site that includes the remains of an ancient Indigenous settlement. The major features of the site are a set of C-shaped ridges and earthen mounds, all of unknown purpose. Yue invented a world in which the residents of modern cities abandon their urban homes and repopulate Poverty Point, so that they can revive the nomadic lifestyle of the site's original inhabitants. Her perspective drawings use a dreamy, ink-drawing style to convey Poverty Point's mysterious nature.

Luis Bendezu

Luis's location is a familiar one to any Toronto dweller: it's Fort York, a colonial-era fortification that still exists as a historic site amid a dense high-rise community to the west of the city's downtown core. As Luis researched the area, he took notice of the controversy surrounding Bill 229, a new piece of provincial legislation, enacted under the auspices of pandemic relief, that weakens the ability of local conservation authorities to block land development. Luis's drawings illustrate a dystopian future where runaway construction has caused Toronto to become overrun with tall towers, leaving Fort York as the last remaining place where Bill 229's opponents can gather and protest. His drawings use a high-contrast colour palette, inspired by comic book art, to highlight the divide between built and unbuilt space.

Yue Wang

Yue studied the Emerald Mound Site, a location in southwestern Mississippi where a few mounds, believed to have been built by Plaquemine Mississippian people between 500 and 1,000 years ago, are preserved. Yue's images attempt to reconstruct what the site might have looked like after the original mound structures fell to ruin, but before the site's Indigenous inhabitants left the area for good. Her axonometric drawings show an Indigenous community living in harmony with local flora and fauna, beside the mounds. Her perspective renderings each highlight a different kind of local wildlife.

Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, an influential Canadian landscape architect and a Daniels Faculty visiting critic and guest lecturer, died on Saturday at age 99.

Oberlander was born in Germany, emigrated to the United States to escape Nazi persecution, then studied at Harvard University before eventually settling with her husband, architect and urban planner Peter Oberlander, in Vancouver.

Cornelia Oberlander, with Alissa North (right) in 2014.

Over the course of her long career, Oberlander was instrumental in the creation of countless pioneering landscapes, many of which continue to define important public spaces in Canada. Her best known works include Vancouver's Robson Square and Law Courts complex, the Vancouver Public Library's central branch, and the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia.

Oberlander collected a number of major awards and honours, including, in 2016, the inaugural Governor General's Medal in Landscape Architecture. She was a Companion of the Order of Canada, and the namesake of the Cultural Landscape Foundation's Oberlander Prize. According to the Vancouver Sun, she was posthumously awarded the city's highest honour, the Freedom of the City Award.

"Cornelia was a true leading modernist," says Alissa North, who was the Daniels Faculty's Master of Landscape Architecture director in 2014, when Oberlander was named the Faculty's Michael Hough/Ontario Association of Landscape Architects Visiting Critic. "Geometric design clarity and clear authorship were hallmarks of her work. This perfection was reflected in how she interacted with people, her ability to remember every detail, and her precision with facts."

A video of Oberlander's 2014 Michael Hough/OALA Visiting Critic Lecture is embedded above.

The Daniels Faculty delegation to the 2021 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism keeps growing.

GAMBJTS, an interdisciplinary collaboration between Daniels alumni and lecturers, will be exhibiting a joint project, titled "Beneath the City: Rivers," at the biennale.

This will make them one of at least two groups with Daniels connections at the event. Another project group, made up of Master of Architecture graduates from 2020, announced that its installation had been selected for the biennale in January.

GAMBJTS consists of Pooya Aledavood (MArch 2019), Nicolas Mayaux (MArch 2019), Brandon Bergem (MArch 2019), Vincent Javet (MLA 2018), Robbie Tarakji (MArch 2019), and Elly Selby (MArch 2019), who are all recent graduates of the Faculty, and Jeffrey Garcia, who isn't a Daniels alumnus. Javet and Garcia teach at Daniels as sessional lecturers.

A GAMBJTS group photo.

The Seoul Biennale, which takes place in the South Korean capital, is a major international showcase for architecture and design, with a competitive entry process. Teams submit proposals and are invited — or rejected — based on the merits of their designs and the applicability of them to the biennale's chosen areas of focus. The theme of this year's event is "building the resilient city."

Beneath the City: Rivers addresses resiliency in a unique way. Rather than propose definite solutions to environmental ills, the project engages in speculation: What if, it asks, Toronto "daylighted" some of its hidden water infrastructure, including the long-buried creeks that channel the city's stormwater? Could these hidden waterways be remade into sustainable leisure landscapes?

“Toronto’s seen and unseen natural systems can provide a framework for how we might think about resilient urbanism.” Javet says. "The idea is to expose these buried hydrological systems to promote resiliency through landscape as a means of infrastructure."

The group's installation at the biennale will consist of a large, 3D-printed model of downtown Toronto, suspended upside-down over a convex mirrored surface, with the buried creeks represented as translucent slashes across the city grid. The topsy-turvy presentation will encourage viewers to think about what lies beneath the city's streets.

Around the perimeter of the circular model will be renderings of a series of design exercises intended to show what the city might look like after its water infrastructure was thoroughly daylighted.

Each rendering shows a speculative city scene. In one, the familiar parkland in front of the Ontario Legislative Building is flooded with water. The legislature's statue of John A. Macdonald, Canada's first prime minister, is shown immersed in the flood, with only its head poking above the waterline. In this instance, water infrastructure isn't the only thing being revealed.

"This is an acknowledgement that the land does not belong to us," Garcia says. "It is a depiction of colonization, because the statue sits on territory taken from many nations, including First Nations and Indigenous peoples.”

Another rendering shows one of Toronto's Victorian neighbourhoods, its streets excavated to expose the ancient creeks that, in reality, flow through subterranean culverts. The area around the creeks is transformed into a public park.

The group took the opportunity to reinterpret one of the most sacred sites in Toronto architecture, Mies van der Rohe's modernist TD Centre Plaza. A rendering shows the plaza's sleek grey pavers replaced by a pool of water, with a tree growing proudly amid the monumental cluster of dark towers. The group was aware that this might create controversy. "It's quite telling that people have a visceral response to the excavation of this relatively recent cultural landscape," Javet says. "The plaza has occupied the land for a little over 50 years, where many of Toronto’s waterways were of ecological and cultural importance for thousands of years. It’s the same reaction.”

The group also gave its speculative treatment to one of the city's most laid-back leisure landscapes: the nude beach at Hanlan's Point, on the Toronto Islands. A rendering shows the beach transformed into a hybrid landscape, where leisure and infrastructure are practically indistinguishable. Nude bathers lounge in the mouths of large concrete drainage pipes.

The Seoul Biennale begins on September 16 and runs through the end of October. Its organizers are currently planning to hold the event in person, pandemic permitting. For more information, visit the biennale's website.

Each semester, the Daniels Faculty publishes a booklet with short descriptions of every graduate thesis project being presented during final reviews. The Winter 2021 Thesis Booklet is an easy way to get an overview of the work produced by the latest cohort of Master of Architecture, Master of Urban Design, and Master of Landscape Architecture students before you attend their presentations on April 21, 22, and 23.

The booklet can be read in its entirety below. (Download a PDF to read offline by clicking the "download" button in the upper righthand corner.)

Alumni, future students, and members of the public are welcome to join us online for final reviews (April 15-23). Daniels Faculty students in architecture, landscape, and urban design will present their final projects to their instructors, as well as guest critics from the professional community and local and international academic institutions.

Daniels On Air is the Faculty’s online platform to navigate through final reviews. Here you’ll sign up, browse the schedule, and learn more about each studio. Daniels On Air will re-launch in time for reviews beginning on April 15. All reviews will take place over Zoom (create a free account here).

Current students do not need to sign up for Daniels On Air to access reviews. Check the Review and Examination Schedule for all dates and times.

Follow UofTDaniels on Twitter and Instagram and join the conversation using the hashtag #DanielsReviews. Reviews take place 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. unless otherwise stated. Please note that the times and dates may change, and there may be scheduled breaks in a Zoom throughout the day.

Undergraduate 

Thursday, April 15 

Design Studio I | JAV101 
Time: 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Instructors: Jay Pooley (Coordinator), Alex Josephson, Danielle Whitley, Peter Sealy, Jennifer Kudlats, Katy Chey, Luke Duross, Chloe Town, T. Jeffrey Garcia, Mauricio Quiros Pacheco, Nuria Montblanch, Scott Sorli, Anne Ma, Marcin Kedzior, Avi Odenheimer 

Friday, April 16 

Design Studio II | ARC201 
Time: 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. 
Instructors: Fiona Lim Tung (Coordinator), Daniel Briker, Carol Moukheiber, Tei Carpenter, Maria Denegri, Alex Josephson, Mauricio Quiros Pacheco, Andrew MacMillan 

Drawing and Representation II | ARC200 
Time: 2-6 p.m. 
Instructors: Michael Piper (Coordinator), Jon Cummings, David Verbeek, Reza Nik, Fiona Lim Tung 

Monday, April 19 

Architecture Studio IV | ARC362 
Instructors: Dina Sarhane (Coordinator), Chris Cornecelli, Sam Ghantous 

Landscape Architecture Studio IV | ARC364 
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. 
Instructor: Alissa North 

Technology Studio IV | ARC381 
Time: 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. 
Instructors: Tom Bessai (Coordinator), Tomasz Reslinski  

Thursday, April 22 and Friday, April 23 

Senior Seminar in History and Theory (Thesis) | ARC457 
Instructor: Jeannie Kim 

Senior Seminar in Design (Thesis) | ARC462 
Instructor: Jeannie Kim 

Senior Seminar in Technology (Thesis) | ARC487 
Instructor: Nicholas Hoban 

Graduate 

Monday, April 19 

Design Studio 2 | ARC1012 | MARCH 
Instructors: Adrian Phiffer (Coordinator), Tei Carpenter, Petros Babasikas, An Te Liu, Brigitte Shim, Tom Ngo, Aziza Chaouni, Mauricio Quiros Pacheco 

Design Studio 2 | LAN1012 | MLA  
Instructors: Liat Margolis (Coordinator), Elise Shelley, Terence Radford 

Urban Design Studio Options | URD1012 | MUD 
Instructors: Ken Greenberg, Simon Rabyniuk 

Tuesday, April, 20 

Design Studio 4 | ARC2014 | MARCH 
Instructors: Sam Dufaux (Coordinator), Carol Moukheiber, James Macgillivray, Chris Cornecelli, Aleris Rodgers, Maria Denegri, Anne-Marie Armstrong, Francesco Martire 

Design Studio 4 | LAN2014 | MLA 
Instructors: Behnaz Assadi (Coordinator), Todd Douglas 

Wednesday April 21 

Architectural Design Studio: Research 2 | ARC3021 | MARCH 
Instructors: Adrian Phiffer, Vivian Lee, Mason White 

Architectural Design Studio: Research 2 | ARC3039 | MARCH 
Instructors: Jesse LeCavalier, Mauricio Quiros Pacheco 

Architectural Design Studio: Research 2 | ARC4018 | MARCH 

(L9101) Redeployable Architecture for Health—Pop-up Hospitals for Covid-19 
Instructor: Stephen Verderber 

(L9109) Towards Half: Climate Positive Design in the GTHA 
Instructor: Kelly Doran 
 

Design Studio Thesis | LAN3017 | MLA 
Instructors: Liat Margolis (Coordinator), Behnaz Assadi, Fadi Masoud, Peter North, Alissa North, Jane Wolff, Elise Shelley, Matthew Perotto, Megan Esopenko, Aisling O’Carroll 

Urban Design Studio Thesis | URD2015 | MUD 
Instructor: Angus Laurie 

Thursday, April 22 

Architectural Design Studio: Research 2 | ARC3021/ARC4018 | MARCH  

(L9103) STUFF  
Time: 1-6 p.m.
Instructor: Laura Miller 

(L9105) ARCHITECTURE ♥ MEDIA 
Instructors: Lara Lesmes, Fredrik Hellberg 

(L9106) Designing Buildings with Complex Programs on Constrained Urban Sites that include Heritage Structures 
Time: 1-6 p.m. 
Instructor: George Baird 

(L9107) What is Inclusive Architecture (Landscape Architecture, Urban Design)? 
Time: 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. 
Instructor: Elisa Silva 

(L9108) The Usual Suspects  
Time: 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. 
Instructors: Filipe Magalhaes, Ahmed Belkhodja, Ana Luisa Soares 

Design Studio Thesis | LAN3017 | MLA 
Instructors: Liat Margolis (Coordinator), Behnaz Assadi, Fadi Masoud, Peter North, Alissa North, Jane Wolff, Elise Shelley, Matthew Perotto, Megan Esopenko, Aisling O’Carroll 

Post-Professional Thesis 2 | ALA4022  
Time: 12-4 p.m. 
Instructors: Mason White (Coordinator), Adrian Phiffer, Maria Yablonina, Carol Moukheiber, Jesse LeCavalier, Paul Harrison 

Friday, April 23 

Architectural Design Studio: Research 2 | ARC3021/ARC4018 | MARCH  

(L9110) Anthropocene and Herd 
Instructor: Gilles Saucier, Christian Joakim, Gregory Neudorf 

(L9103) STUFF  
Time: 1-6 p.m.
Instructor: Laura Miller 

Architectural Design Studio 7: Thesis | ARC4018 | MARCH 
Time: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. 
Advisors: Petros Babasikas, Michael Piper 

Architectural Design Studio 7: Thesis | ARC4018 | MARCH 
Time: 1-6 p.m. 
Advisors: John Shnier, Mauricio Quiros Pachecho, Carol Moukheiber, An Te Liu 

Design Studio Thesis | LAN3017 | MLA 
Instructors: Liat Margolis (Coordinator), Behnaz Assadi, Fadi Masoud, Peter North, Alissa North, Jane Wolff, Elise Shelley, Matthew Perotto, Megan Esopenko, Aisling O’Carroll 

Photo by Harry Choi.