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Alumna Samantha Eby receives 2020 Prix de Rome in Architecture for Emerging Practitioners

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Alumna Samantha Eby receives 2020 Prix de Rome in Architecture for Emerging Practitioners

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University of Toronto alumna Samantha Eby has been named the recipient of the 2020 Prix de Rome in Architecture for Emerging Practitioners.

The prestigious $34,000 prize is awarded annually by the Canada Council for the Arts to a recent architecture graduate who has demonstrated potential in contemporary architectural design.

It’s the third consecutive year the prize has been won by U of T alumni. Eby, who graduated from the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design’s master of architecture program in 2019, follows Kinan Hewitt, who graduated in 2018, and David Verbeek, who graduated in 2017.

Eby “balances a deep curiosity for the economies that contribute to architecture and urbanism with a provocative and tangible design sensibility," says her thesis advisor, Assistant Professor Michael Piper.

Once travel restrictions are lifted, Eby plans to use her new funding on research trips to Australia, Germany and Austria to visit and document examples of collective and non-profit housing developments.

"My research is looking for unrealized opportunities in Canada for new forms of housing that are outside the current practices of financing and site development," she says. "I'm looking at questions of how housing in Canada can be more than just a commodity, and how, by using communal financing and development practices, we can make multi-unit housing more accessible, sustainable, and desirable."

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Daniels student Batoul Faour takes top prize in Avery Review essay competition

lanthierj — Fri, 28 May 2021 16:46:41 +0000

Daniels student Batoul Faour takes top prize in Avery Review essay competition

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lanthierj Fri, 05/28/2021 - 12:46

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A pile of broken glass in Beirut, after the blast. Photograph by Batoul Faour.

Batoul Faour has been named the first-prize winner in the 2021 Avery Review Essay Prize competition.

A Lebanese Canadian designer and researcher, Faour is a student in the post-professional architecture program at the University of Toronto’s John H. Daniels Faculty' of Architecture, Landscape and Design. Her winning essay is a distillation of her thesis project, which critically examines the role of architectural glass in exacerbating the damage from last year's catastrophic port explosion in Beirut.

The essay, which won Faour a $4,000 prize and top billing in the Avery Review's April issue, describes the way shattered window glass piled up in Beirut's streets after the blast. It traces the historical and contemporary uses of glass in Lebanon to reveal the politics behind the fragile material.

The Avery Review is a monthly architecture journal published by the Office of Publications at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture. The April issue is readable online and you can read Faour’s winning essay here.

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Student design team wins prestigious international competition

lanthierj — Tue, 25 May 2021 14:20:37 +0000

Student design team wins prestigious international competition

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lanthierj Tue, 05/25/2021 - 10:20

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A team comprising students from U of T, York and Ryerson won top prize at the annual Urban Land Institute/ Gerald D. Hines Hines Student Competition with a design that focused heavily on sustainability and community use (image courtesy of team)

A team of Canadian students, including two from the University of Toronto, recently took home top prize in the Urban Land Institute/ Gerald D. Hines Hines Student Competition – the first time a non-American team has won the prestigious contest.

Ruotian Tan, a master of urban design student, and Chenyi Xu, a master of architecture student, were both members of the winning team, which also included students from York University and Ryerson University.

“It was a great multidisciplinary learning experience for me,” Tan said earlier this year. “It was a very good chance for me to practice and get some good results before I actually go into a professional career.”

The annual competition asks entrants to find a solution to a complex urban design problem – in this case, by developing master plans for the East Village, a neighbourhood in Kansas City, Mo. More than 100 teams from the U.S., Singapore and Canada competed for the US$50,000 prize.

The Canadian team “pushed a new paradigm for an urban neighborhood based on the strong regional legacy of agriculture,” ULI Hines jury chair Diana Reid wrote in a statement. “Their financing plan and design enabled economic resilience through small scale food growth and distribution, local culinary incubation, and research-driven employment opportunities.”

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Daniels students honoured in OAA challenge

lanthierj — Fri, 14 May 2021 17:04:17 +0000

Daniels students honoured in OAA challenge

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lanthierj Fri, 05/14/2021 - 13:04

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(L-R): Victoria Cardoso, Eugenia Wong, Erman Akyol

Victoria Cardoso, Erman Akyol, and Eugenia Wong have been recognized by the SHIFT Challenge, a biennial competition hosted by the Ontario Association of Architects, that invites students and architects to address social challenges through design.

The three first-year students in the master of architecture program at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design created a project that was one of five honoured by this year’s challenge.

Their project, originally created for a fall semester course taught by Professor Ted Kesik, proposes a community-oriented redesign of Ontario Place, the disused public amusement park located on a small chain of artificial islands off Toronto's western shoreline. The students will present their work during the OAA's Virtual Conference at an online SHIFT event that will begin at 4:30 p.m. on May 20, and be viewable online on the OAA's YouTube channel.

“This was really an opportunity for us to open ourselves up to the field,” Wong says. “We'll get to present our project not just to teachers and our colleagues, but also to architects, landscape designers, and urban designers. We're hoping to get our proposal out to decision makers and important stakeholders for the site.”

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David Martell receives 2020 Ember Award for Excellence in Wildland Fire Science

lanthierj — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 15:07:46 +0000

David Martell receives 2020 Ember Award for Excellence in Wildland Fire Science

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lanthierj Fri, 11/13/2020 - 10:07

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David Martell, a professor emeritus in the forestry program at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design, has received the 2020 Ember Award for Excellence in Wildland Fire Science from the International Association of Wildland Fire.

The award recognizes scientists who have demonstrated sustained excellence in wildland fire research.

“Throughout a career that has spanned 45 years, David Martell has been renowned for his creativity, collaboration and important contributions to renewable resource management and forest fire science,” said University Professor Ted Sargent, vice-president, research and innovation, and strategic initiatives. “His innovative modelling helped the Province of Ontario determine whether to expand its air tanker fleet – and his research has helped solve challenges at the national and international level.”

The IAWF said in a statement that Martell strongly influenced fire leaders and managers across Canada “because he dedicated time to understanding their operational point of view, integrating academic and operational perspectives, and absorbing the real application of fire management.”

Martell is the co-director of the Daniels Faculty's Fire Management Systems Laboratory, where he conducts research on fire in boreal forest ecosystems.

“This award recognizes research that I carried out in collaboration with my graduate students, research assistants, other researchers, and forest fire management personnel of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (OMNRF),” Martell said. “I'm very grateful for their contributions, and for the financial support I've received from the OMNRF, as well as the University of Toronto and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.”

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