Toronto: The Latest Architecture and News

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The Toronto Society of Architects’ Gingerbread City is a fantastical metropolis where you can eat the walls and taste the lamp posts! A gingerbread showcase like no other, Gingerbread City brings together the TSA community (made up of architects, designers, students, and enthusiasts) each year in support of a local charity advancing work in housing and shelter.

The following online programs at the Daniels Faculty are open for registration for Winter 2022 (January 16 - March 27)

The Daniels Faculty at the University of Toronto and Black Students in Design (BSD) are launching a 10-week mentorship program called Building Black Success through Design (BBSD). BBSD is a free mentorship + design competition created by Black students for Black students interested in design and architecture. Participants in this program will work with Black architecture and design university students who will act as mentors, guiding them through a series of workshops that reflect each step of the design competition. Learn more about the BBSD Mentorship program by visiting our website, or join our online information session on Thursday December 2nd at 6PM.

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Author: Joseph L. Clarke (University of Toronto, Department of Art History)
Moderated by Mitchell Akiyama (University of Toronto, Daniels Faculty)

Editor: Fadi Masoud (University of Toronto, Daniels Faculty)

Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/1916348366715/WN_ZftnyPALSbqSpzJXb6toOg

North America’s leading exposition, networking, and educational event for the design, construction, and property management industries returns face-to-face this December. For over 30 years, The Buildings Show has provided a unique platform for the industry to see first-hand a complete overview of the built environment. Once again, you can look forward to making connections, sharing knowledge and sourcing new products and services through online and in person experiences.

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The Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design is pleased to announce that the 2020-21 Frank Gehry International Visiting Chair in Architectural Design is Douglas Cardinal, OC, FRAIC, a renowned Canadian architect known both for his inspiring designs and for his advocacy for the rights and dignity of Indigenous peoples. Cardinal will give a series of four public lectures, in collaboration with the Daniels Faculty, throughout his appointment as Gehry Chair.

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In this talk, Pamila Matharu and Lauren Fournier will be in conversation on the occasion of the launch of Fournier’s new book Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism (The MIT Press, 2021). The two will discuss ideas that Fournier takes up in the book, including the state of the “autotheoretical turn” in recent feminist art, the role that histories of intersectional feminist activism play in contemporary conversations and trends, the ethics of disclosure and exposure, and the relationship between autotheory, autofiction, and other terms, like auto-ethnography. The two will draw from their backgrounds as artists, writers, and curators involved in feminist organizing in Toronto and elsewhere to discuss the use of autobiographical materials in critical and conceptual work. Books will be available for purchase.

The Settler Colonial City Project is a research collective focused on the collaborative production of knowledge about cities on Turtle Island/Abya Yala/The Americas as spaces of ongoing settler colonialism, Indigenous survivance, and struggles for decolonization. Trained both as architects and as architectural historians, SCCP co-founders Andrew Herscher and Ana María León will discuss the work of the collective as an intersection of practice, research, and pedagogy. In light of current prompts for change in architectural curricula, they will problematize how institutions have embraced and conflated depoliticized notions of decolonization and anti-racism.

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Marina Tabassum will share her research on the Meghna estuary and its impact on climate change coupled with a complex land inheritance system introduced by British Colonial rule that to date governs the dynamic landscape of the Ganges Delta. Marina will share the development of a modular mobile home unit to be distributed to landless families living in coastal areas.