Simon Rabyniuk

Sessional Lecturer

s.rabyniuk@daniels.utoronto.ca

Simon Rabyniuk is an architectural researcher and designer based in Toronto. His research and teaching develop historical and theoretical perspectives about technology and urbanization. An architectural history and theory Ph.D. candidate at Eindhoven University of Technology (NL), his dissertation studies the terrestrial impacts arising from the introduction of next-generation aviation vehicles and their attended infrastructures.

As a member of the Curatorial Research Collective, recent architectural exhibitions he has co-curated include Mass Supports: Flexibility and resident agency (Spitizer School of Architecture 2023) and Building Bodies: (Plaza Vertigo 2022). From 2010-2015, he was a principal at the research, art, and design studio Department of Unusual Certainties, where he actively exhibited, published, and developed innovative public engagement events. His individual and collaborative work has been exhibited across Canada, as well as at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2012), Shenzhen Biennale (2014), and Seoul Biennale (2018). He holds a professional graduate degree in Architecture from the University of Toronto (2019), where he received multiple awards.