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].

Liat Margolis is an Associate Professor at the Univesity of Toronto's John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. She served as the Associate Dean of Research and the Director of the Master of Landscape Architecture Program from 2017-2022. Her teaching and research interests focus on the intersections between landscape architecture, green infrastructure, and Indigenous studies.

Since 2010, Liat has been leading the GRIT Lab / Green Roof Innovation Testing Laboratory, an internationally renowned research facility at U of T dedicated to research and training on living green infrastructure. The lab includes two rooftop facilities with over 6,000 sq. ft. of experimental green roofs equipped with hundreds of sensors that collect data in real time. She has been an advocate of interdisciplinary and hands-on research and education with long-standing collaborations with Biology, Forestry and Civil Engineering researchers, as well as with industry, government, and institutional partners. For establishing this unique facility and initiative, she received the 2013 American Association of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Excellence Award in Research.

Liat has served on several advisory committees for the City of Toronto, providing guidance on a range of programs, including the Green Streets Technical Guidelines, Pollinator Protection Strategy, Toronto Green Standard, and Eco-Incentive Program. She has collaborated with over 80 researchers across Canada, as a member of Sustainable Canada Dialogues, an initiative on climate change policy solutions. Together with the SCD scholars, she co-authored several reports for the Federal government on transitioning to a low-carbon energy future. She currently serves on the University of Toronto Presidential Committee on Environment, Climate Change, and Sustainability and co-leads the Community of Practice on Sustainability Teaching, both of which seek to integrate academic and operational sustainability activities to advance learning and teaching and transform the physical campus.

Since 2017, Liat has also been taking a leadership role on the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action within MLA program, the Daniels Faculty, U of T and the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects. In 2018, Liat co-founded the Nikibii Dawadinna Giigwag / Flooded Valley Healing – an Indigenous youth access program at the Daniels Faculty that provides employment, mentorship and pathways to post-secondary education. Co-led with Anishinaabe Elder Whabagoon (Lac Seul First Nation), the program weaves together cultural teachings with landscape architecture and environmental conservation field work. It brings together Elders, Knowledge Keepers, language speakers, designers, artists, activists, ecologists, and gardeners, all of whom share their knowledge and give a platform for the voices of the youth on environmental protection and community building. She was the 2023 recipient of the Minister’s Awards of Excellence 2021-2022, Ontario Colleges and Universities for her work on Equality of Opportunity, creating opportunities in postsecondary education for marginalized and underrepresented groups.

Liat holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and a Master of Landscape Architecture degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). She is the co-author of two books Living Systems: Innovative Materials and Technologies for Landscape Architecture (2007) and Out of Water: Design Solutions for Arid Regions (2014).

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.

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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Hans Ibelings is an architectural historian and critic. He holds a PhD in architecture from the University of Coimbra. Since 2012, he has been the editor and publisher of The Architecture Observer. Prior to this, he was the editor and publisher of A10 new European architecture, a magazine he founded in 2004 together with graphic designer Arjan Groot.

Ibelings is the author of a number of books, including European Architecture Since 1890 (2011), published in English, Dutch, German, and Russian, and Supermodernism: Architecture in the Age of Globalization (1998 and 2003), published in English, Dutch, Spanish, French, and Italian.

Together with Boris Brorman Jensen he is working on a monograph on Danish modernists Knud Friis and Elmar Moltke.

MArch/Architecte dplg, Paris-Belleville
M.S. Architectural History, Paris-Sorbonne
Ph.D. Art History, Paris-Sorbonne

Georges Farhat is a licensed architect and landscape historian. His research explores the interfaces between territorial structures and design techniques, optics and the historiography of perspective, epistemologies of landscape and urbanism. His scholarship on the practice of perspective in French 16th-18th-century landscape designs correlates manorial archives, technical literatures, and site topographies.

At U of T, Professor Farhat teaches landscape history and theory at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Prior to joining the Daniels Faculty, he was an Associate Professor at the National School of Architecture (énsa) at Versailles, France, where he co-directed the Master of advanced studies in landscape architecture, “Jardins Historiques, Patrimoine et Paysage,” a program jointly organized with the University of Paris-Sorbonne. He remains a founding member of the Laboratoire de l’école d’architecture de Versailles (LéaV). In this capacity, he conducted more than 20 funded research projects. 

Farhat is the editor of the volume Landscapes of Preindustrial Urbanism (Harvard University Press, 2020), an outcome of the 2017 International Symposium he co-organized with John Beardsley at Dumbarton Oaks—a Harvard University research institute, library, museum, and garden located in Washington, DC.

André Le Nôtre in Perspective (Hazan/Yale University Press, 2013) is the widely acclaimed reference book that Farhat co-edited as a companion to the 2013-2014 exhibition he co-curated at the National Museum of the Chateau of Versailles, along with didactic videos based on his reconstruction of design procedures.

The book received the 2015 Philip Johnson Exhibition Catalogue Award (Society of Architectural Historians), the J. B. Jackson Book Prize (Foundation for Landscape Studies), the Prix René Pechère (René Pechère Library), and Prix Redouté. Part of this project was developed within the Working Group “Perspective as Practice”/ Artists’ Optical Knowledge, based at Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.

Other books include  André Le Nôtre. Fragments d’un paysage culturel: Institutions, arts, sciences et techniques (Musée de l'Ile-de-France, 2006) and Les années 1960 hic et nunc: architecture, urbanisme, paysage (Editions Recherches, 2010). 

Farhat is the author of numerous articles and reviews that appeared in Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Annals of Science, Landscape Research, Journal of Landscape Architecture (ECLAS), Colonnes-Archives d’architecture du XXe siècle, Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, Pages Paysages, Revue de l'art (CNRS), Les Cahiers de la recherche architecturale et urbaine, and Les Cahiers du musée national d’art moderne, along with several book chapters in French, English, and Spanish. 

Farhat’s research has been supported, among others, by the Ministry of Culture and Communication of France, the Centre des Monuments Nationaux, the Académie d’Architecture de Paris, the Centre de recherche du château de Versailles, the Foundation for Landscape Studies, and Agence Française de Développement.  

Georges Farhat was a Senior Fellow (2014-2020) in Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C. He was also a Senior Fellow at the Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities at Utrecht University (2017). In 2023 he held a Visiting Fellowship from the British Academy at the British Museum where he worked on the practice of perspective in the drawings of Jacques Androuet du Cerceau (1511-1585). 

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BA, BArch (UBC), MArch (UPC, Barcelona)

Maria Denegri teaches architectural design and representation studios at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto.  She has been teaching intensively at the Faculty as an adjunct assistant professor since 2002 at all levels of the graduate and undergraduate programs. From 2008 to 2013, she coordinated the Daniels Faculty Global Architecture Program in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
 
Maria was born and raised in Argentina. She moved to Canada with her family in the 1980s.  She did her post-graduate studies in Architecture and Urban Design at the Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya in Barcelona. There she worked with Ignasi de Sola Morales and Xavier Costa on cultural identity and public space.  She completed her professional B. Arch at the School of Architecture at the University of British Columbia, and holds a BA (Art History) from the University of British Columbia.
 
Maria Denegri is a registered architect and a LEED accredited professional.  In 2008, after fifteen years of design and production experience gained in very diverse urban environments including Los Angeles, Barcelona and Vancouver, she established her own firm in Toronto, Denegri Bessai Studio, with partner Tom Bessai. The studio is currently engaged in several urban infill projects at a range of scales. 

Katy Chey is a licensed architect with the Ontario Association of Architects and a LEED Accredited Professional specializing in Building Design and Construction. She earned a Bachelor of Technology in Architectural Science from Ryerson University and Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Architecture, both from Pratt Institute.

Chey has gained extensive professional experience on a wide range of notable projects at award-winning architecture firms in New York and Toronto. At Daniels Faculty, Chey teaches design studios, drawing and representation classes, and lecture courses in the BAAS Program. Her work has been recognized and exhibited in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. Chey is the author of the book Multi-Unit Housing in Urban Cities: From 1800 to Present Day (Routledge, 2018).

Erica Allen-Kim is an historian of modern architecture and urban design. Her work on global cities and cultural landscapes focuses on issues of memory and citizenship. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University and was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto. She is completing her first manuscript, Mini-malls and Memorials: Building Little Saigon in American Suburbs, and has published on Vietnamese-American war memorials and the transnational politics of Chinatown gates. Her current book project, Chinatown Modernism, situates the architectural and urban projects of American Chinatowns within the broader context of modern architecture and planning.