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Publication Number PM40656646 By Ralph Stern | We are collectively entering awaiting all design professions. of you may remember as the Slide Library. Doug our Centennial, celebrating one hundred years During the past year, the Faculty of Clark, who has ably led the Partners Program Letter of architecture at the University of Manitoba. Architecture has made significant progress in over the past years, has left the University of This is a remarkable moment in the history multiple areas. We have signed a Memorandum Manitoba for new endeavours. We are thankful of the Faculty and I’m certain that there is of Understanding with the Technical University for the significant contributions that he made great excitement throughout the alumni of Munich (MoU), one of Germany’s premier to Partners. The Partners Executive Board will from community for such an anniversary. In the institutions for architecture, landscape continue to be led by Jacqueline Jasinski, who past months, I have often tried to imagine that architecture, and city planning. The MoU is bringing great expertise, skill, and enthusiasm moment in 1913; the seminal moment in which facilitates student, faculty, and administrative to the Partners Program. the professional design community stepped staff exchange in the areas of innovative In the coming weeks and months we will be the forward and resolutely determined that “we design and sustainability. Closely associated sending out a series of updates on the new are now here, but we must go there!”; a hope with the TUM is the Oskar von Miller Forum, initiatives of the Faculty of Architecture. It is and demand leading to the creation of the an “independent initiative of the Bavarian my sincere wish that Alumni will feel welcome University’s first Professorship in Architecture. construction industry.” Our interest in to “come home” during this Centennial year. Dean There was a great and propitious opportunity establishing close working relationships with And, as always, I welcome your input into to be realized and realized it was: an these two institutions is coupled with another collectively creating the future of our Faculty opportunity robustly developing from a single trajectory, that of working together with as the best means of honouring the Faculty of Professorship into a Department and then TransSolar. TransSolar is a global leader in the Architecture’s remarkable history.• unfolding into an independent Faculty under area of “climate engineering” and sustainable the Deanship of John A. Russell. Since that design and an engineering firm central to moment at which “Jack” Russell took the reins, the successful realization of Winnipeg’s new the Faculty has grown substantially, expanding Manitoba Hydro Place. and diversifying such that today the Faculty of Taken together, this triad of relationships Sincerely, Architecture houses four highly recognized and underscores the Faculty of Architecture’s professionally accredited graduate programs: commitment to our environment. Within the Ralph Stern, RA, AIA, MAA, MRAIC Architecture, City Planning, Interior Design, University, we are exploring new possibilities Dean, Faculty of Architecture Landscape Architecture. of working together with the Faculty of University of Manitoba In addition to such significant strength in our Engineering; inaugurated by a successful event umanitoba.ca/faculties/architecture/facstaff/ graduate programs, we also have a remarkable jointly organized by the Partners Program and faclist/Stern.html undergraduate program in Environmental Friends of Engineering and hosted by Manitoba Design; a program with a strong pedigree, an Hydro. Internally, we have strengthened our important trajectory, and the potential to be Environmental Design Program with the a central force in shaping highly innovative addition of two stellar new members of the and broad-based design approaches to a Faculty: Dr. Mohamad Araji and Assistant sustainable future. Beginning a century ago Professor Alyssa Schwann. as a Beaux Arts institution and transforming In addition to new international into Canada’s leading faculty of modern partnerships and an expanded commitment architecture, the Faculty of Architecture to Environmental Design, we have also promotes a sustainable future as our shared significantly added to our capabilities in the future. It is a future shared not only by our area of digital design and fabrication. With the alumni and faculty, but, most importantly, generous support of the Student Technology by our students, the students of today and Fee Fund, the Faculty of Architecture has tomorrow. made a $250,000 commitment to new digital Personally I am proud, honoured, and fabrication equipment. This equipment was humbled to be part of this venerable tradition. instrumental in facilitating the work on the As with that moment in 1913, the year 2013 successful 2013 Warming Huts Competition presents another great opportunity; an Entry undertaken by Environmental Design opportunity for the Faculty of Architecture to Program students; work that would simply have reflect on its remarkable history, to recognize not been possible one year ago. its significant accomplishments, and to move To underscore the commitment to our forward with renewed rigor and commitment future and to our alumni, our Partners Program, into its second century. As such, it is of greatest situated within the Office of the Dean, will soon importance to the Faculty and to its alumni that be expanded to Partners International so that this coming year be used as a springboard for we can more actively engage our alumni across engaging a vital new future; to confirm, adjust, the globe. The Partners offices are now in John or realign its goals to engage the challenges A. Russell Building, in the stylish area that many Welcome 7 broadly, the concept of keeping their work in made the High Line. It was part of history. How In Praise of Copying the public domain may be worth considering. many people get to make a park in New York Recommended By Marcus Boon In Praise of Copying presents valuable City? (p 112). challenges to current attitudes toward acts There is an obvious parallel between Mary Anne Beecher that might easily be understood as essential to the advocacy of Joshua David and Robert Reading Head of the Department of Interior societal growth and educational advancement. Hammond and the campaign conducted in Design . the 1840s and 1850s by William Cullen Bryant With the recent passage of Bill C32, educators High Line: The Inside and Andrew Jackson Downing for the creation We asked the Heads of each of the departments to review in Canada now find themselves faced with new of Central Park. They made skillful use of the restrictions on the ways in which copyrighted Story of New York press; they learned to liaise, to listen, and to a book that has inspired them in the past year. If you are materials can be used in the classroom, in lobby, and they learned how to raise funds— looking for a good book this is a great place to start. course readers, and as electronic teaching City’s Park in the Sky even if the profile of many donors did lead resources. Design educators have long to the High Line being branded a “celebrity grappled with these issues in addition to the By Joshua David and Robert Hammond project.” At least they persuaded those ongoing challenge of helping students learn celebrities to act in the public interest. and practise processes of interpretation that Alan Tate And the book itself is also extraordinary. Head of the Department of Landscape integrate ideas drawn from the works of others Designers are fairly familiar with reading other Architecture without blatantly exploiting them. Where once designers’ accounts of their own work. But it professors freely shared images of architecture Selected by ASLA as one of their best books is relatively rare to read clients’ accounts of and design with their students, we now must of 2011, High Line recounts the rousing story how and why they selected their designers. protect access to images to the extent that it of how Joshua David and Robert Hammond’s Although David and Hammond were not sometimes feels like one must jump through so Friends of the High Line succeeded first in designers and although they did not initially many hoops/ links just to get to visual material preventing the demolition of a 1.6 kilometre have a distinct vision for the High Line, they that its ability to compel and inspire is lost in long elevated rail structure on Manhattan’s instinctively understood the attraction of its the process. lower west side and then in raising the funds rusting, ruderal character and they knew that Marcus Boon’s 2010 book, In Praise of for its conversion into a new type of park. It they didn’t want anything as anesthetized as Copying, lends perspective to this issue by is a story of transitions: the transition of the the Promenade Plantée in Paris. The story of blending legal views and ethical positions Friends from advocacy group to conservancy the design competition that they organized, on copyright with Buddhist philosophy and group, the transition of its founders from particularly the section “Four Teams, Four Platonic concepts. What if, as Boon proposes, interested citizens to creators of a unique Visions” explaining how and why they selected we learn to understand the notion of “the park, and the transition of a wildflower- the landscape-led team of James Corner Field copy” as something other than a devalued covered industrial relic into a hugely popular Operations with Piet Oudolf, is a wonderfully form of repetition or deception. Without public place. candid account. So too are their comments downplaying the significant moral and legal The book covers the period from 1999, when about the selected designers’ balance between dilemmas evoked by what sometimes seems local residents David and Hammond formed being avant-garde and being practical. like the rampant practice of plagiarism in the Friends group (very New York in the 90s!), And for those who prefer pictures to contemporary culture, Boon reminds readers through to the site’s opening as a public park in words, the second part of the book gives a that copying still holds educational value as a June 2009. The book is in two parts—120 or so comprehensive visual record of the project. method of learning. He notes that there is a pages presented as a refreshingly brisk dialogue It includes some of Joel Sternfield’s stunning long history of appropriation in the arts (and between the two of them and 200 pages of images of the abandoned site that were such in design), and that imitation has served as photo essay covering the history, condition, a potent part of the early campaign, analytical a form of practice for students since design design, construction, and completion of the illustrations of the construction in progress, education was formalized. first phases of the park. The authors note, and for celebrity-spotters, images of the If you’re interested in exploring this topic, however, that they recorded their respective many famous figures who helped to fund and you will find a free downloadable PDF of this parts of the dialogue quite separately. fight for the project. Little surprise, then, that book on Harvard University Press’ website The project, of course, is extraordinary. This the book closes with a credit list as long as as part of the publication deal negotiated by is reflected best in David’s account of a visit in a Hollywood blockbuster’s. It is a big, bold, the author who desired to keep his work at 2008 with one of their staunchest supporters brilliant project—and this book is a worthy least partially within the public domain. By and major donors, Lisa Falcone: record of it.>>> allowing people to create their own copies About halfway through our walk, she started of the book (which I, by the way, purchased talking, slowly at first. She said she lived close before learning of the free copies), the author to Central Park, and she’d often thought about Far Left: High Line: The Inside Story of New York City’s Park in the Sky by Joshua David & Robert Hammond. Alan Tate’s review of High puts into practice his assertion that the free the people who’d built it, and what a great Line first appeared this year in Landscapes/ Paysages: The Journal of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects. copying of intellectual property is an essential thing they had done for the city, so many years Right: In Praise of Copying by Marcus Boon aspect of cultural progress. For other authors ago. Someday, she said, New Yorkers would Bottom Left: www.ted.com Bottom Right: Vitruvius: Writing the Body of Architecture by Indra in the academy who desire to share their ideas look back in a similar way at the people who’d Kagis McEwan. 8 Welcome Welcome 9 Writing the Body of how wonderful!” And as usual, I agreed to do all design students would watch this and then equally important and significant professions this without giving it too much more thought. watch it again. There is so much to learn from that also engage design process in one way or Architecture Then, of course, the deadline came round and this simple, common sense, intelligent, and another. A better definition should also allow By Dr. Indra McEwan I realized that I had not read a complete book complex way of thinking. us access to the resources we need to deepen this year. I have been busy, and quite frankly, <
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12 Welcome Welcome 13 G H Above: Arthur Stoughton is pictured here, front and center Opposite: Presentation drawing for proposed James Richardson & Sons, Ltd. office tower at the north east corner of Portage Avenue and Main Street, Winnipeg. Arthur A. Stoughon, architect. 1929. Reprinted with courtesy of Archives of Manitoba. Arthur Stoughton
By Jeffrey Thorsteinson | This year’s and devised such projects as Canton Christian centenary celebrations offer an opportunity College in China. Most notably, he produced to look back to the University of Manitoba the competition-winning design of New York’s Faculty of Architecture’s earliest days. A Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument, which was key figure during this period was Arthur A. opened by Theodore Roosevelt in 1902. Stoughton, founder of the program. Stoughton Stoughton arrived in a booming Winnipeg, was appointed on July 18, 1913. The news – then the third largest city in the country. The along with his credentials and substantial young city and its burgeoning architectural $3,000 salary – was trumpeted by the community had high hopes for the new Winnipeg press, which presented the New architecture department, which began with Yorker as an exotic and cosmopolitan figure. just five students. While the program’s growth This extraordinary image was only reinforced was delayed by the First World War, Stoughton upon his arrival. In her memoir of Stoughton, did his best to raise its profile. Within two years titled “The Professor and His Wife,” Elinor of his arrival he was a member of the Greater Black described him as resembling a toucan, Winnipeg Plan Commission, sat on the Art with a heavy black moustache and hair that Committee of the Winnipeg Industrial Bureau would have looked better in a pompadour but (predecessor of the Winnipeg Art Gallery) and never was. had created a park-like development plan for Stoughton’s credentials were likewise the University of Manitoba Fort Garry campus. impressive. A graduate of Columbia University, The latter highlights Stoughton’s commitment he had studied under William Robert Ware, the to City Beautiful ideals, which he advocated in founder of the school’s architecture program. numerous speeches and articles for academic Stoughton was also the winner of Columbia’s and public audiences. first Fellowship in Architecture, selected by This vigourous civic engagement is a key a jury which included the illustrious Richard part of Stoughton’s legacy in Manitoba. M. Hunt and Charles F. McKim. This prize His enduring influence also includes such allowed him to travel to Paris to attend the architectural contributions as the U of M’s École des Beaux Arts. Prior to his arrival Tier, Buller and Medical College buildings in Winnipeg, Stoughton was engaged in and the original Main Street and Norwood architectural practice with his brother, Charles, bridges. Stoughton’s practice also comprised 14 History History 15 a 1929 commission for the head offices of James Richardson & Sons. For this project he conceived a streamlined- Gothic skyscraper reminiscent of Chicago’s Tribune and Wrigley buildings. This assignment – which precipitated Stoughton’s departure from academia – was unfortunately suspended due to the Great Depression. Stoughton’s legacy alsoincludes his 1928 hiring of John A. Russell and the selection of his own replacement, Milton Osborne. This set the school on a sound footing for future growth. For such contributions, Stoughton received an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Above: Plan for the future development Manitoba in 1950. He passed away five years of the University of Manitoba Fort Garry campus, Winnipeg. Arthur A. Stoughon, later, in Mount Vernon, New York. • architect. 1914.
Below: Construction photograph of the University of Manitoba Horticulture & 1 “The Professor and His Wife,” Elinor F.E. Black, Biology building, now known as the Buller Building. Arthur A. Stoughon, architect. unpublished typescript manuscript, MSS SC 16 (University of 1932. Reprinted with courtesy of Archives Manitoba Archives). of Manitoba.
Front Elevation of the University of Manitoba Arts Building, now known as the Tier Building. Arthur A. Stoughton, architect. 1930.
Details of the Arts building. Arthur A. Stoughton, architect. 1930.
16 History History 17 From the Archives
By Jeanie Kim | With just five students in 1913, Society publications can attest, the students Faculty in the form of “Space Nest 2062.” the Department of Architecture, as it was of the school took this to heart, then and We look forward to hearing your thoughts known then, was founded by Arthur Alexander now. In Tecs and Decs (1949), a surprise win about the Faculty’s past, present, and future Stoughton, a graduate of Columbia University by the Architecture basketball team and a during this centennial year, and hope that (1888) who left a modest architectural second place finish by the hockey team are you will join us in our detective work as we practice in New York with his brother Charles celebrated with a toast: “Wine, women, song endeavour to uncover a bit of the character to establish the department at the University and sex, That’s the stuff for architex!” (Perhaps of the place in the basement of the Russell of Manitoba. In a typescript memoir entitled they were not working hard enough…!) Yet the Building and elsewhere.• The Professor and His Wife penned by Elinor chronicle of the staging of that year’s Beaux F. E. Black, who moved in with the childless Arts Ball, penned by Yvonne Wright (Interior 1. “The Professor and His Wife,” Elinor F. E. Stoughtons in 1927 to finish her degree when Design 1949) reveals that the women, at least, Black, unpaginated typescript manuscript, her parents relocated to British Columbia, were up at 7:00am setting things up in the MSS SC 16 (University Archives). Stoughton was described as “resembling Civic Auditorium for the Mardi Gras themed 2. Stoughton also stepped down from his a toucan” with a heavy black moustache event. Embellished with caricatures of faculty, position as head of the department in 1928, and hair that would have looked better in a poems about staying up all night for studio, succeeded by Milton S. Osborn, another pompadour but never was.1 invitations to various cultural events outside of Columbia graduate (1928) who remained head Often invited to break up the otherwise the school, and candid shots of life within the of the department until 1946. all-male gatherings of the department, Black school, the short-lived Tecs and Decs (which 3. “Architectural Education at the University describes parties characterized by tongue-tied was followed by Perspective beginning in 1950) of Manitoba, 1913-1953,” Royal Architectural young men, guessing games, and “sumptuous and every SAS publication that followed up to Institute of Canada Journal, March 1954, Volume refreshments, usually involving whipped the long-running Warehouse (1992-present) 31: 64. cream.” Her second year with the Stoughtons are the best glimpse into what happens after- 4. John A. Russell, “Programming a School becomes considerably more interesting, hours, after classes, in the studio after lectures, of Architecture Building,” Royal Architectural however, with the arrival of a “brilliant young and in what Russell described as the “salutary” Institute of Canada Journal, 1960, Volume 7/8: man from the eastern United States” named spaces of the building that the Faculty has 325. Jack, Stoughton’s first academic hire,2 who called home since 1959: arrived just days before his 21st birthday with “Since buildings exert strong influences for
a convertible outfitted with an electric Swiss good or bad upon those who use them, it is Below “Where are we Heading in Architecture?” Perspective, Students Architectural klaxon horn, a raccoon coat, a talent for obvious that students of architecture can be Society, 1962. dancing, and a love of stage design. “In short either directly benefited or handicapped by the he was any co-ed’s dream,” Black would write, quality of the space provided for their work. “and, to begin with, I was the only co-ed he […] It is axiomatic that a school of architecture knew.” should occupy a building which in itself By the time John (“Jack”) Alonzo Russell comprises an integral part of the education of was named the Director of the School of its occupants and becomes a teaching device Architecture in 1945 when the department in the educational program.”4 reorganized, the school had grown into a As the spreads in this preview of the decentralized yet cosmopolitan environment forthcoming centennial publication suggest, dispersed among six buildings on the the life of the school—whether within the University of Manitoba campus. On the studios, lounges, centre space, or various occasion of the school’s 40th anniversary, locations around campus and beyond—is Russell would bemoan this decentralized best captured in these moments leading up to nature of the school while championing the and in between the more formal markings of esprit de corps of the students and staff, the passage of each academic year, whether praising their cooperation and unity of in the form of a woeful obituary for the loss purpose.3 “[W]e feel that it is unwise to define of Hut J (a.k.a. The Hut, J Hut, Ditchview a rigid pattern for architectural education,” a Motel, etc.), accounts of riding a shopping joint staff statement introducing a portfolio cart down to Gondola Pizza, vocal protest over of student work would proclaim in this same the near demise of Ditchball, Stan Britton’s issue. (BArch71) Bardot-influened distillation of the As the vivid portraits of student life creative process, or the seemingly unrealized captured in the Students’ Architectural ideas competition for the expansion of the Above: Perspective, Students Architectural Society, 1969. 18 History History 19 Images from the Archives...
The symbiotic relationship and open dialogue between the students, faculty, and staff of the school is one that, it could be argued, has been fostered by the building that the Faculty of Architecture is housed in but, also, one that has perhaps best been captured in the legacy of vibrant publications produced by the Students Architectural Association in various forms. As evidenced, the exuberance of these publications is palpable even through just a quick scan of some selected spreads from 1952-1970.
20 History History 21 22 History History 23 Wohnpark Neue Donau large residential materials, and the use of inventive shading Exhibition Schedule community in Vienna, and, above all, through devices that effectively respond to the his many characteristic towers, which intense Australian sun distinguish him as the Museum of Estonian Architecture, essentially define the skyline of contemporary most uncompromising and artistic architect Tallinn, Estonia Sydney. in his adopted country, and one of the most October–November 2012 A native of Vienna, Seidler was the second persevering and ingenious architects of his Latvian National Museum son in the upper middle-class Jewish family time anywhere. His architecture embodies of Art, Riga, Latvia of Max Seidler, a self-made textile business numerous sources and influences that he February–March 2013 owner, and Rose Seidler, who came from a large strategically sought out and refined over About | Harry Seidler was a family that owned a timber cutting business. In the course of his career—confidence, AIA Center, Houston, USA April–May 2013 student in the Department of 1938, at the age of fifteen, he fled to England social purpose, and a methodological and Architecture at the University soon after Nazi Germany invaded Austria. collaborative approach to design from Gropius; of Manitoba between 1941 and Black Mountain College Museum, 1944 and was recognized for his In May 1940, he was interned by British residential types, the power of concrete, and North Carolina, USA contribution to the profession authorities as an “enemy alien,” transported the warmth of wood from Breuer; standardized June–September 2013 by being awarded an Honorary first to the Isle of Man and then to a detention building systems and expressive structural University of Manitoba, Winnipeg Doctor of Laws degree from the camp near Quebec City in Canada. In October language from Nervi; sculptural fluidity and University of Manitoba in 1988. Canada 1941, he was released on parole to study lyrical forms from Niemeyer; and a profound A travelling exhibition of his Mid September– October 2013 work will be making a stop at the architecture at the University of Manitoba understanding of how our eyes react to visual University in Fall 2013. in Winnipeg. Professor John A. Russell was phenomena from Albers. University of Virginia, Above: Harry Seidler with Walter Gropius at Julian Rose House, Wahroonga, Sydney, 1954, instrumental in agreeing to this parole and thus From the 1970s on, Seidler’s hand became Chalottesville Photo by Max Dupain; (c) Penelope Seidler. October-December 2013 contributing to the early architectural training increasingly influenced by modular works of of Harry Seidler. American abstract expressionist painters and National Gallery of Foreign Art, Seidler received his Master’s degree at sculptors, evolving into a distinctly personal Sofia, Bulgaria Harry Seidler Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, where artistic language yet to be recognized by the January–February 2014 he studied on scholarship from 1945-46 under profession internationally. Seidler’s late work, Museum of Sydney, Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, a lifelong however free and sculptural, is never arbitrary. Sydney, Australia “I have a fanatical interest in the subject of architecture. mentor and friend. He then attended Black His majestic forms were perpetually defined Late July–November 2014 Mountain College in North Carolina, where by rational planning, efficiency of standardized I believe it is the most wonderful occupation for a person, he studied under the painter Josef Albers, construction, and social and environmental Planungswerkstatt, Vienna, Austria a chance to create.” followed by employment as Breuer’s first considerations. • Early December–Mid January 2014 Excerpt from Harry’s letter to his mother, Rose Seidler while being a student at Harvard, 1945. assistant in New York. In 1948, Seidler was invited by his mother to come to Australia, Article reprinted from the exhibition brief. Australian tour to follow. “Harry Seidler: Architecture, Art and photographs, films, correspondence, books, where his parents immigrated after the war, to Collaborative Design” is a traveling exhibition scrapbooks, periodicals, drawings, and original design a house for them. En route to Australia, celebrating the ninetieth anniversary of the sketches—provided by the architect’s family, Seidler worked at Oscar Niemeyer’s office in birth of Harry Seidler, the leading Australian Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, Rio de Janeiro for a few months. architect of the twentieth century. The The Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, The In September 1948, Seidler established a exhibition traces Austrian-born Seidler’s Marcel Breuer Digital Archive at Syracuse practice in Sydney. The ambitious 25 year-old’s key role in bringing Bauhaus principles to University, and the private archives of artists tiny studio/apartment featured a prominently Australia and identifies his distinctive place Norman Carlberg, Charles Perry, and Lin displayed statement: “Australia’s present day and hand within and beyond modernist design Utzon. The exhibition is being curated by building practices are outdated. They cry out methodology. The fifteen featured projects— Vladimir Belogolovsky, of Intercontinental for rejuvenation. It is the policy of this office five houses and five towers in Sydney, and five Curatorial Project Inc. to create new standards which will produce a major commissions beyond Sydney—focus progressive contemporary architecture.” The on Seidler’s lifelong creative collaborations, Biography | Harry Seidler (25 June 1923 architect’s prolific career to follow, spanning a pursuit he directly inherited from Bauhaus Vienna–9 March 2006 Sydney) was the first almost 60 years, proved him right. Nearly 160 founder Walter Gropius, with progressive architect to fully express Bauhaus principles of his projects—from single family houses artistic visionaries: architects Marcel Breuer in Australia, exemplified by his first project, to apartment buildings, multi-story office and Oscar Niemeyer, engineer Pier Luigi Nervi, which was built in 1950 for his parents—the towers to civic and cultural centers, as well photographer Max Dupain, and artists Josef Rose Seidler House in Wahroonga, north of as important government commissions, were Albers, Alexander Calder, Norman Carlberg, Sydney. All his life, he was, in his own words, realized in Australia, Austria, France, Israel, Sol LeWitt, Charles Perry, Frank Stella, and “the torchbearer of modern architecture”—a Italy, Mexico, and Hong Kong. Lin Utzon. This exhibition was developed sincere missionary for the cause of modernism. Seidler’s instantly recognizable body of with Penelope Seidler and Harry Seidler & Seidler left a distinct mark on our world, most work, marked by a strong sense of geometry, Associates in Sydney and is presented through noticeably with his Australian Embassy in baroque in origin, a feel for robust balanced architectural models, sculptural maquettes, Paris, Hong Kong Club in Central Hong Kong, compositions, a knowledge of structure and Above: Wohnpark Neue Donau, Vienna, Austria, 1993-2002. (c) Eric Sierins. 24 History History 25 By Serena Keshavjee | Not many people the WAG in the autumn of 2006. I utilized the comments at the end of any Free Press articles outside Winnipeg realize what a good stock archive on downtown Modernist buildings by on Modernist Heritage Preservation speak The Making of of Modernist architecture exists in this city. the Winnipeg Architecture Foundation under otherwise, I have had plenty of people tell me Certainly I was ignorant about Winnipeg the direction of Susan Algie. I also spent many that the exhibition and book Winnipeg Modern Modernism when I drove into the city for hours in Henry Kalen’s basement as I pored Architecture 1945-75 have changed the way the first time in 1996. I was impressed with over thousands of his proofs, documenting they see Modern buildings. Now if only we Winnipeg the turn-of-the-century heritage buildings, almost every Modern building in this city. After could rouse a critical mass about preserving which I was expecting, but I was thrilled by Kalen died, we worked with Shelley Sweeney, Modernism, Winnipeg could take its place as the Modernist gems I kept stumbling upon, Head of the University of Manitoba Archives architectural tourist destination. >>> including Centennial Hall at the University of & Special Collections, to bring thousands of Modern Winnipeg, my future workplace. Winnipeg has his photographic proofs to the University. The The Faculty of Architecture is reprinting the avoided the boom and bust economic cycles of quality and quantity of Kalen’s photographic immensely popular book, Winnipeg Modern other North American cities, and so we have, archive is reflected in the book. Architecture: 1945-1974. The book illustrates even if only inadvertently, preserved many of On a personal level, this was a fruitful project the architectural history of Winnipeg through Architecture — our mid-century buildings without much of a for me, and it has had a lot to do with my the prestigious mid-century era in design. The heritage preservation policy. partner, Oliver Botar and me, getting to know book features designs by alumni and past faculty In 1999, I was invited to teach architectural and coming to love Winnipeg our adopted members of the University of Manitoba. To history in the Faculty of Architecture at city. During the entire four years I researched obtain a copy of the limited second edition The Book the Univerdity of Manitoba, and my new the book and exhibition, I was either pregnant printing please contact kathryn.strachan@ colleagues were instrumental in introducing me or nursing one of my children, and was often ad.umanitoba.ca. The book is selling at a cost of to the most interesting mid-century buildings. inelegantly cycling to the local archives while $40 + shipping. Herb Enns, Neil Minuk, and Raphael Gomez- in my 3rd trimester! Although the anonymous Moriana took me on tours, and introduced me to architects who had been active during the 1950s and 1960s. These conversations opened my eyes to the fact that the Faculty of Architecture was one of the pre-eminent Above: Site plan of the Winnipeg Art Gallery schools in Canada during the mid-century. Dean John A. Russell’s international contacts meant that Winnipeggers were trained by some of the most famous architects in the world, including Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe, and many of these students came back to and designed buildings in Winnipeg. There had been little work published on Manitoba Modernism when I arrived in the city: a pamphlet by William Thomson, and an article by Kelly Crossman. It was a conversation with Phyllis Lambert, Director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, that really pushed me to organize an exhibition and book on the topic. Lambert’s family is from Manitoba and when I was “bragging” about the high quality Modern buildings here, she declared, “There is no Modernist architecture in Winnipeg.” Soon enough she was on her way to Winnipeg for a tour that Oliver Botar and Herb Enns helped organize. After that tour, Lambert and Pat Bovey, then director of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, encouraged me to curate an exhibition using Henry Kalen’s photographs. The Canada Council generously funded the book, along with donations from the professional architectural community. Enns played a crucial role designing the book and the exhibition, and co-curating the exhibition at 26 History History 27
By Herbert Enns | Winnipeg’s surge of cultural, social, political, and economic change, series to be included in one of the eight essays Gierson, Morley Blankstein, Izzy Coop, Ernie architectural terms. Imagine a city built as Below: Exterior: general view with foot bridge & entrance, Smith Residence 2, 1959, from the Winnipeg Building Index. Post War Modernist Architecture continues there is a sense amongst those in architectural authored by David Burley, Kelly Crossman, Smith, Dennis Carter, to name a few—built much by collective will as individual prowess, Bottom: Exterior: general view of building and “stilts,” Donahue to fascinate: thoughts of a reprise of that practice that we are onto something. Lists Bernard Flaman, Terri Fuglem, Faye Hellner, their own exuberant houses on principle where an intact community of architects— Residence, 1955, from the Winnipeg Building Index. productive era of innovation in structure and of projects in design are stacking up, and Aldona Dziedziejko, and Jenny Western. in Tuxedo, St. Vital, Wildwood Park, River led for all intents and purposes by John A. Left Page: Interior: 2nd floor studio space with student lounge to the right, John A. Russell building, from the Winnipeg Building space can hardly be ignored as one surveys progressively more sophisticated clients are Together with Martin Tessler’s day-in-the- Heights, and North Kildonan. This kind of self- Russell—flooded the city with salient buildings Index. At Left: Model: view of north front, John A. Russell building, another design and construction boom prepared to join practitioners in setting new life photographs, they form the backbone of inoculation and direct intimate immersion into reflective of their epoch. from the Winnipeg Building Index. inundating the city early in the twenty-first standards in architectural ambition. If such a the book. Images from Henry Kalen’s vast the ideals being propagated by the then School It is important to end this brief reflection century. One can easily imagine a book of book can be imagined (let’s call it Winnipeg collection of large format negatives were of Architecture was reassuring. The lives of with a note of appreciation for the immense essays and images being published in 2050, Early 21st Century Architecture – 1995 to 2025), invaluable in linking the architectural record Winnipeg’s architects were fully implicated in support Serena and I have received from Dean that pays homage to the outpouring of a link with the Faculty of Architecture will be to a range of philosophical and theoretical the life of the city. Ralph Stern: he has championed Winnipeg architecture today. Like the late 1950s and deservedly made. Many architectural designers propositions. Bound together between For me, the point of the project—giving Modern Architecture in the University, in the early 1960s, there seems to be no end in practising in Winnipeg today are Manitoba gatefold maps and with formatting inspired seemingly endless tours of the modern city city, and beyond. It was Dean Stern who, sight. In the Post War period of city building, graduates, and the idea of a unique “school by the interior elevations of the John A. to the uninitiated, wrestling with software to without hesitation, ordered the second printing captured in detail through the inventory, of thought” to describe the architecture Russell Building second floor studios, the manage such a massive graphic design and at the time of the sell out of the First Edition. indexes, and research of Winnipeg Modern manifesting itself in the maturing public realm book was intended to be both a record of printing task, concentrating to exhaustion For this trust and confidence in our work we Architecture, there is little doubt that the is beginning to emerge. the achievements of the past, but also an as we sifted through the labyrinth of images are exceedingly grateful.• school—and its Dean, John A. Russell— Serena Keshavjee and I are delighted to inspiration to beginning design students and in Kalen’s St. Vital basement, collecting were the centre of influence as Modernism witness the reprinting of the comprehensive those architects now fully devoted to the first the informational detritus of every image announced its late arrival in Winnipeg. Russell and broad ranging Winnipeg Modern Winnipeg building boom of the 21st century. to establish its provenance, and the prepared the way by nurturing the immigrant Architecture: 1945–1975. Its assembly required Perhaps most important to the Modernist simultaneous mounting of an enormous ideals from Europe and the Eastern Seaboard countless hours scouring the city for excellent project here is the extent to which the exhibition at the Winnipeg Art Gallery— of the United States. It was here that new and salient examples and verifiable eyewitness architects and their families and friends were was a way of respectfully documenting the conceptions of space, structure, and light accounts of Winnipeg’s Post War architectural so fully implicated in the design. It was the accomplishments of others and formally found a natural home. boom. More than 230 buildings eventually expression of an intelligent and committed announcing the exceptional legacy of the Locally sourced design is beginning to mature made it into a massive first-draft index. The community, where many of the architects— Faculty of Architecture and its professors. It again, and while it is too early to fully articulate entries were then sifted and sorted into eight James Donahue, Gustavo Da Roza, Étienne was also an opportunity to tell one of a myriad its real significance in the continuum of gradations, filed in eight envelopes, each Gaboury, Al Waisman, Ken Snyder, Wolfgang of stories about Our Winnipeg in
28 History History 29 Grant Marshall Save It With Colour By Herbert Enns | Grant Marshall (1931 - over his shoulders, and his 1961 large swatch with countless national and international 2012) was a most distinguished and revered Benjamin Moore Paint catalogue locked in awards, they established themselves around Interior Designer in Winnipeg. Launching his elbow. In the early years colour selection the world, and they speak of his “… mentorship, his professional career in the mid-1950s he was an art form, and tubes of tint were mixed teaching ability (“he taught us how to see…”), was swept up into the tailwind of Winnipeg’s on site by the painters. Well before big box graceful technique, insight, endless capacity post war explosion of modern architecture, hardware paint desks staffed by neophytes, for work and life, and a generosity of spirit and and designed interiors for many of the Marshall accessed his phenomenal innate gifts kindness.” “ . . . Grant was a great mentor to most significant projects of that era. These of spatial cognition. Assessing light, shadow me and will be missed,” wrote Lloyd Danku, included the John A. Russell Building (1959), and prospect in interior living spaces, he then BID ’86, (Lead - Interiors Design Engineer, 787 the Monarch Life Building (1959-1963), and charged ahead with balanced spectral arrays Progam, The Boeing Company). “I would not the Manitoba Health Services on Empress that induced walls’ luminesce and ceilings to be where I am today without the teachings and (1959). His peripatetic movements included float. He also designed furniture and selected dignity Grant instilled in me . . . SAVE IT WITH perpetual travel to Europe and New York, one artworks to more fully define the environments COLOUR!!” • of his favourite cities. On the road he pursued of his many devoted and life-long clients. his fascination with costume and set design With the potential for ebullient larger-than- in New York’s Theatre District. His life long life spectacle always near at hand, he filled commitment to water colour painting was the life-spaces of his family and friends – a manifest amongst the villages and landscapes camouflage for his immense sensitivity and of France. Marshall’s contribution to refined expertise. Marshall’s final exhibition of Winnipeg’s lifestyle was significant, importing water colours were installed in the Assiniboine modern furniture from Copenhagen and Park Pavilion amongst the paintings by the Marimekko fabric from Helsinki, he heightened Ivan Eyre and Walter J. Philips for the summer our sense of modern living, and gave definition of 2012 – the opening an early radiant and to literally thousands of homes in a style fixed summer sun-bleached celebration of life by his extraordinary confidence and abilities amongst his closest friends and associates. in design. Working steadily until his passing While we might all agree that material at age 80, he arrived on site as a man on a matters, Grant’s highest gift was to almost five mission, with his leather satchel in hand, decades of Interior Design graduates from the
John A. Russell Building -Student Lounge. an authoritative black Armani coat draped University of Manitoba. Launched into practice Above: John A. Russell Building -Architecture Library. 30 History History 31 Degrees and Diplomas Graduates Design Education at the University of Manitoba- ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN/STUDIES Alumni A Chronology 1913-2013 Bachelor of Environmental Studies - 1339 By Doug Clark | The University of Manitoba •1966 introduction of Bachelor of (B.E.S.) (1969 -1998) was established in 1877, as the first University Environmental Studies Program (3 years) in Western Canada. The teaching of leading to three year Bachelor of Architecture Bachelor of Environmental Design - 1245 Architecture was initially approved on April 29, Degree (B.Env.D.) – (1995 – current) 1913 when the University of Manitoba created • 1970 program was changed to introduce a a chair position in architecture. At the onset a three-year Master of Architecture degree ARCHITECTURE four-year bachelor degree in architecture was • 1972 first graduate level degree (three-year) offered through the Faculty of Arts. Professor in Landscape Architecture introduced Bachelor of Architecture - ( BArch.) - 851 Arthur Alexander Stoughton was the first chair • 1998 – University One is introduced which (1919-1973) and the program was housed in the old “Law makes it mandatory for first year students at Courts” Building in downtown Winnipeg the U of M to take 30 credit hours of Arts and Master of Architecture - (M.Arch.) - 948 Science courses in specific areas. This results ( 1935 – current) • 1920 the degree was offered through the in a restructuring of the Environmental Studies newly created Faculty of Engineering and and Interior Design programs. CITY PLANNING Architecture • 1992 Environmental Studies program • 1932 the University of Manitoba relocated becomes Environmental Design Diploma in City Planning - (Dip. C.P.) 22 to Fort Garry • 1994 – approval of a new curriculum leading – (1965-1991) (Program located to the third floor of the Tier to a post professional degree in Interior Design, Building at the Fort Garry U of M Campus) a research based degree building upon the first Master of Science in City Planning - 24 • 1933 Master of Science degree in professional BID degree. (M.Sc.C.P.) – (1954-1992) Architecture created – this was changed in • 1997 - 1999 Graduate program Master’s 1935 to Master of Architecture degree degree in Facility Management introduced. Master of Architecture in City Planning - 20 • 1938 three-year diploma offered in interior • 1998 – The Department of Environmental (M.Arch. C.P.) – (1950-1964) decoration was instituted Design becomes the Faculty of Architecture • 1948 the entire school was reorganized Program in Environmental Design. The three Master of City Planning - (M.C.P.) – 454 under the “School of Architecture” and ED years are comprised of ED-1 and ED-2 (1966-current) provided: being foundation years for common study with •five -year Bachelor of Architecture degree ED-3 being a specialized (option) study year INTERIOR DESIGN •four-year Bachelor of Interior Design (the that focused on: Architecture, City Planning, By Stanley Britton | By Stanley Britton | approach...” This, then, became a rallying point first Bachelor of Interior Design program Interior Design or Landscape Architecture. Diploma in Interior Design (Decorating) 96 WHOOPS! The Centennial Year launches and ‘rational thought’ was the intellectual in Canada) • 1999 Master of Interior Design degree - (Dip. I.D.) – (1940 – 1962) in Alberta? Snuggled around fireplaces at stimulus. The preposition “but” became an • 1949 one-year graduate program in introduced and Bachelor of Interior an Alberta mountain resort, two dozen last- opening for interpretative humour manifested Community Planning was created for Design discontinued. Bachelor of Interior Design - (B.I.D.) – 1622 graduates of the Bachelor of Architecture by Humour in Architecture all-after- graduates in Architecture and Engineering • 2005-2008 Environmental Design Program (1949-2004) professional degree program, circa 1970, joined modernism exhibition jurist Douglas Gillmor (Canada’s longest continuing degree granting re-structured. The first two years (University with spouses, friends, and former and current – in 1954, a first graduate of the 5-year BArch program in City Planning) 1 and ED-2) are consider “foundation” years. Master of Interior Design - (M.I.D.) – 68 faculty in schmoozing away the 26-28 April program, the co-designer of the modernist • 1957 approval granted for the development ED-3 and ED-4 are considered “Intermediate” (2000 – current) weekend to launch a year of commemorating John A. Russell Faculty of Architecture of Canada’s first exclusive dedicated building years during which time students have the ‘The Manitoba School’ Centennial. A BArch Building, a former University of Manitoba, for the study of architecture option to specialize in either: Architecture, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Best Laughs Tribal Affair was the third in a trio associate professor and the founding director • 1959 ribbon cutting to officially open the Interior Enviornments or Landscape of alumni gatherings that began with a BArch of the University of Calgary architecture John A. Russell Building and Urbanism. Last Rites Reunion in Vancouver (2006), program. Situating ‘The Manitoba School’ • 1963 – Sept 26 The “School of Architecture” • 2007 introduction of PhD Program in Master of Landscape Architecture - 315 followed by an ‘I thought I would be an as a professional enterprise in an increasingly is removed from the Faculty of Engineering Planning & Design. ( M.L.Arch.) – (1975-current) architect’ reunion in Winnipeg (2011). Peter competitive market enticed half-a-bubble- ( in honour of their Golden Jubilee) and is Diamant – Chair of the Manitoba Municipal off-plumb debates tickled by Gustavo da re-organized as the “Faculty of Architecture” Over 312 professors and instructors have been FACILITY MANAGEMENT Board and a former Adjunct professor of city Roza – the designer of the iconic Winnipeg The following programs were offered: connected to the program since its inception. planning – wrote: “Many of us arrived at the Art Gallery and a long serving Department of •five-year Bachelor of Architecture degree They have helped to create and develop five Faculty based on its reputation for modernism Architecture Head. The Prairies and northern •four-year Bachelor of Interior Design distinctive programs and guide over 6200 Master of Facility Management (M.F.M.) 22 and its Bauhaus tradition ... But the sixties were Ontario school was, during the modernist era, degree alumni to degree completion in the past 100 – (1998) not necessarily compatible with the discipline ‘The Manitoba School.’ Today, not so much. •two-year postgraduate degree in Community years. •
Spring graduates in courtyard (photo taken 1965) and rational thought inherent in the Bauhaus Whoops! • Planning 32 History History 33 Alumni Info Where They Are In 1919, Alexander Corrigill became the first in his class of six 1660 live in Manitoba. (approx) to graduate with a B.Arch from the University of Manitoba. 3805 live in Canada. Since then, over 6200 other men and women have followed 198 live in the United States. in his footsteps recieving over 6990 degrees. 191 live outside of North America.
Alexander S. Corrigill 1933- Drafting Studio, Tier Building
Recognitions (In Canada) Degrees Earned in the Past Three Years
Graduates who have been recognized with the Graduates/Faculty who have been recognized Description 2010 2011 2012 Order of Canada or Provincial Orders: with the RAIC Gold Medal (est. in 1967):
Order of Manitoba (OM) RAIC Gold Medal: 1970 Bachelor of Environmental Design (BEnvd) 90 97 115 Norma Bailey (BES 71) John A. Russell (deceased) Heather Bishop (BID 89) Master of Architecture (M.Arch) 26 24 6 Dr. Etienne Gaboury (BA 53, BArch 58, LL.D. 87) RAIC Gold Medal: 1979 John C. Parkin FRAIC (deceased) Master of City Planning (M.C.P) 13 11 8 Order of Canada Member (C.M.) William De Lint (BArch 62) RAIC Gold Medal: 2005 Master of Interior Design (M.I.D) 10 12 9 Dr. Etienne Gaboury (BA 53, BArch 58, LL.D. 87) Richard Henriquez FRAIC Patricia Patkau (BID 73) John Patkau (BES 69, BA 69, MArch 72) RAIC Gold Medal: 2009 Master of Landscape Architecture (M.L.Arch) 10 10 9 John Patkau and Patricia Patkau FRAIC Order of Canada Companion (C.C.) Total 149 154 147 Dr. John Parkin (BArch 44)(deceased)
34 Alumni Alumni 35 Lunch Group
Back Row: Stephen Chang (BArch65), Bill Johnston (BArch65), Colleen Baldwin (BID86), Lori Billson (BID86), Beverly Wilson (BID86), Carmen Alton (BID86), Sheryl Van De Kerckhove (BID87), Colleen Wheeler (BID86), ? , Pat Robertson (U of M Department of Philanthropy).
5th row: Beth Proven (U of M Department of Philanthropy), Jill Collison (UMAPS Student rep), Ian Stephens (SAS-President and Warehouse co-editor).
4th row: Rudy Friesen (BArch65), Harry Haid (BArch71), Harold Arkin (class of 65 reunion), Bruce Pickersgill (BArch66), Derek Haight (BArch73), Robert Grossman (BArch 65), Len Sedun (BArch 65), Gillian Watts (Class of 65 reunion), Robert Barnett (class of 65 reunion), April David (UMAAS Student rep).
3rd row: Tim Higgins (Author), Phyllis Good (BID 66), Bill Hurst (BArch 66), ? , Karen Hurst (BID 67), Andrew Little (BArch 71), Brian Wagner (Class of 65 reunion), Judy Wagner (Class of 65 reunion), Stan Britton (BArch 71), Jolanta Ehrlich (class of 65 reunion), Brandy O’Reilly (Partners Program ), Joanna Carlberg (Class of 65 reunion). Classes of ’65/’66/’67 Class of ’86 (Architecture and Interior Design) (Interior Design) 2nd row: Devin Segal (LASA Student rep), Grace Gordon Collins (BID 66), Back Row: Back Row: Jim Weselake (BArch 66), Gordon Richards (class of 65 reunion), Bruce Pickersgill (B.Arch 66), William Johnston (B.Arch 65), Lori Billson (BID 86), Grant Marshall (BID 55, Retired Professor), Carol Jones (BID 67), Liivi Forster (BID 67). Dean Ralph Stern, Grant Marshall (BID 55 Retired Professor). Dean Emeritus Michael Cox (BID 69), Dean Ralph Stern.
Front row: 3rd Row: 2nd Row: George Kneider (BArch 67), Dana Stewart PhD (BID 67, MCP84 Stephen Chang (B.Arch 65), Dana Stewart (BID 67, MCP84, PhD Carmen(Houlihan) Alton (BID86), Colleen Wheeler (BID86) , Retired Professor), Frank Fantauzzi (Head Dept. of Architecture, - retired professor), Bill Hurst (B.Arch 66), Rudy Friesen (B.Arch Beverly Wilson (BID 86). Grant Marshall (BID 55- Retired Professor), Dean Emeritus 65), Robert Grossman (B.Arch 65). Michael Cox (BID 69), Dean Ralph Stern, Mary Anne Beecher 1st Row: PhD (Head Dept. of Interior Design), Richard Milgrom PhD (BES 2nd Row: Colleen Baldwin (BID86) Sheryl Van De Kerckhove (BID87) 80 – Head Dept. of City Planning) ?(Gillian’s mom), Peter Forster Karen Hurst (BID 67), Phyllis Good (BID 67), Jim Weselake Missing from photo Gregory Van Sickle (BID 86). (Retired Professor). (B.Arch.66), Len Sedun (B.Arch 65), Grace Gordon Collins(BID 66).
1st Row: Carol Jones (BID67), George Kneider (B.Arch 67), Liivi Forster (BID 67).
Homecoming 2011 Luncheon Group – Homecoming 2011.
Homecoming | On Friday September 16, 2011 (Architecture and Interior Design), class of Starting Class of ’65 and September 14, 2012 reunion participants 86 (Interior Design) and the class that started (‘I thought I would be an Architect’)
were invited to attend a tour of the campus in 1965 (the last year in which the 5 year Back Row: and adjourn to a lunch in Centre Space of professional B.Arch Program was offered) Derek Haight, Lynn Eldred, Brian Eldred, Ann Germani, Michael Cox, Gordon Heinsen, Simone Mahrenholz, Jerry Ross, Trudi the John A. Russell, Faculty of Architecture and colleagues who went on to pursue other Graham, Dean Ralph Stern, Peter Stemler.
Building, sponsored by the Partners Program. careers (‘I thought I would be an Architect’ 4th Row: The alumni and guests were welcomed by reunion). Bill Gillies, Marci Artis, Harold Arkin, Susan Lobay, Tom Lobay, Peter Diamant, Ruth Diamant, Joanna Carlberg, Arnie Davis, Dale Dean Ralph Stern and joined by student In 2012, we were pleased to entertain Ann Ketcheson, Gerri Stemler (née Holland), Bill Ketcheson.
leaders, Heads of the Faculty Departments, Architecture graduates from 1952 and 1962. 3rd Row: several retired professors and other guests. On Friday evening many of the groups George Strome, Marion Korn, Sherry Banadyga, Kirk Banadyga, Jola Ehrlich, Madeleine Laquerre, Maudy Davis, Stan Britton, Jane Following the introductory remarks by Dean adjourned for private dinner parties. However, Rhead.
Stern, and a memory slide show by Doug in 2011 the “I thought I would be an Architect” 2nd Row: Clark of the Partners Program, guests were group planned an inclusive party held at the Andy Little, Norma Bailey, Grant Boden, Heather Cram, Brian Wagner, Ione Thorkelsson, Gillian Watts, Robert Barnett, Wally invited to introduce themselves and say a few Radisson Hotel in downtown Winnipeg. This Rhead.
words about their careers since graduating high-energy event featured the music and Front Row: and share insights with the current students. talent of the Faculty of Architecture’s own Larry Cook, Gordon Richards, Judy Wagner, Nancey Pankiw, Colette Massie, Doug Massie, Roddy Yu Following the discussion, tours of the cluster of Electric Jug and Blues Band (circa 1965). Missing (Doug Clark and Shirley Render). Members of the class Faculty buildings (The Centre for Architectural Saturday mornings provided the opportunity to are italicized. Structural Technology ( CAST), John A tour some of the latest architectural changes in Russell Building, Architecture 2 (old Fine Arts the City of Winnipeg. building) was provided by Doug Clark . In 2011 Jim Weselake ( Smith Carter) led In 2011, three distinct groups gathered to an architectural bus tour of Winnipeg that celebrate reunions: Classes of 65/66/67 stopped at the Smith>>> 36 Alumni Alumni 37 Class of ‘52 and ‘62
Back Row: Desmond St Lawrence (B.Arch52), Stan Benjamin (B.Arch62), Patty Benjamin, Daniel Li (B.Arch62), Luba Darch, Ted Darch (B.Arch64),Marjorie Warwuch, Herbert(Brian)Stewart (B.Arch52), Ralph Stern(Dean), Richard Milgrom (Head Dept. of City Planning)
Third Row Eva St. Lawrence, Ian Macdonald (Professor Emeritus), Ron Dies (B.Arch62), MaryL Stephens, Barrie Stephens (B.Arch 62), Arnie Wawruch (B.Arch 62), George Rogers (B.Arch 62), Claude Maurice (B.Arch 62), Carol Rogers
Second Row Magnus Johnson (B.Arch 62), Maureen Johnson, Leonard Sedun (B.Arch 65), Janet Li, Joseph Bogdan (B.Arch 62), Donald Robertson (B.Arch 62)
Front row Marjorie La Foy, Manley La Foy (B.Arch 63), Y.C. Lee (B.Arch 62), Deanne Bogdan
Homecoming 2012 Homecoming 2012
Carter >>> (LEED Platinum) office building, Manitoba Hydro (Best Tall Building in North America and LEED Platinum) where Tom Akerstream led a tour and the mixed use development on Waterfront Drive developed by Rudy Friesen from ft3. In 2012, Professor Herb Enns led a group though Winnipeg’s downtown and covered sites that looked at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, the Exchange District, St. Boniface and the Forks. Saturday evening’s allowed alumni to attend the University Homecoming dinner. However, in 2011 the ‘I thought I would be an architect’ reunion group opted for dinner and studio presentation in the John A. Russell Building. Arnie Davies provided musical styling’s and Pinky Plates were presented by the various contributors (see Network 2011). During the 2012, Homecoming dinner, Gerry Price – CEO Top right photo: Alumni in the front Foyer of the John A. Russell of Price Industries and founding Chair of the Buliding Partners Program, was recognized as University Middle and bottom right photo: Alumni during dinner and presentations of Manitoba’s Distinguished Alumnus.• 38 Alumni Alumni 39 Eastward Bound Winnipeg native and Faculty of Architecture grad Claire Craig is leading the wave of outstanding hotel designs across The Middle East
By Rebecca Lo | It was a first. After meeting drawings needed to be very easy to understand “Working in the Middle East, especially Wa International’s public relations executive without any text,” she explains. “I gave a sketch Dubai, has been a great design experience,” in a Shangri-La Traders hotel, she shows me for a lecture chair drawn in isometric to the she says with prairie-style humility. “The the way to her office in a strip mall. I have carpenter. He appeared the next day with the UAE has grown tremendously and has always never before and never since visited a major chair built in isometric. Only one leg touched been open to new ideas. I have always loved interior design firm that worked out of a strip the floor! It was a very funny experience.” the attitude in Dubai. Such an international mall, and thought the whole thing was kind of She met her future husband in London population means that ideas, styles and cool and surreal. She mentions that the 70s while they both worked for Scott Brownrigg & influences are varied. With the building two-story arcade is one of the oldest buildings Turner; she then sat and qualified for RIBA. boom happening here for more than 10 years, in Dubai. Of course, that doesn’t count historic “The project I documented for my Part the latest and most sophisticated building Deira, the river-hugging part of the town and Three was a freestanding pub on stilts in the techniques have been established. Water a labyrinth of souks hiding wholesale gold and Docklands, right in the Thames. It was very jet stone cutting, laser cutting, glass making, diamond dealers. interesting since all the final plumbing had to embossed metal work and resin molding Claire Craig emerges from her office to greet be done by scuba divers.” After dabbling in a can all be done in Dubai. Some of the best me. We start chatting and she mentioned that few hospitality firms, she discovered her niche. craftsman in the world relocated to Dubai and she was from Winnipeg. Funny—that was also “I really enjoy the variety of interior design that set up extremely sophisticated workshops. As where I went to school. It turned out that we hospitality offers,” she enthuses. “Restaurants, designers, we can create amazing exterior and both attended The University of Manitoba’s lobbies, ballrooms, suites—every imaginable interior architecture. Most importantly, it can Faculty of Architecture, only she graduated in interior is experienced through designing be built.” 1980. She recalls having Gus da Roza as one hotels.” Wa International has luckily survived of her professors—and credits the university’s She joined Wrenn Associates and was the UAE’s relative downturn, as many of international academic staff with igniting her relocated to Dubai to oversee her firm’s two its projects are in other Middle East cities. wanderlust. hotel projects there. “Of course, I also had to “Typically with all recessions, it is often a time “I was lucky to have UM’s architecture convince my husband and two year old son to when hotels look at refurbishing,” she notes. department on my doorstep,” Craig says. “I relocate with me,” she notes. “It was a great And they say that you can take the girl out believe the standards were very high and I adventure for us all. Dubai in 1996 had barely of Winnipeg, but you can’t take the Winnipeg personally was very pleased to have completed hit the radar.” out of the girl. “I still have quite a few relatives the Environmental Studies program when the Now branded Wa International, Craig is in Winnipeg,” Craig says, “however, my family dropout rate was so high, especially in first its design director. She witnessed the birth has all moved out west to Alberta, British year. Our professors were very dedicated; most of the Middle East’s building boom, and Columbia and Washington State. I haven’t had real experience working as architects and rode its tsunami to create some of the most been back in a long time. I miss the endless were very willing to pass on this knowledge. spectacular hotels in the world. “Our Dubai prairies, the snow, the sunsets, the Northern There were actually only a few Winnipeggers; office grew and grew with Dubai’s boom,” Lights and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet.” • it was a very international group.” she says, still with a trace of dream-like After working in Toronto briefly, she moved disbelief. “Although we have a representative wa-international.com to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia to join her then office today in London, our design studio has boyfriend and brother who were both working been in Dubai for more than 16 years now. there. She met a lecturer from Texas A&M Our team consists of 38 very talented and University while designing palaces for the creative people. CNBC and Bloomberg have eldest son of Riyadh’s former king, and decided awarded us the best Arabian Hotel and best Rebecca Lo | Rebecca Lo BID ARIDO IDC to go back to school. “I wrote the entrance International Hotel for the past three years, graduated in 1994. She has lived in Hong Kong since 2000, and runs a consulting business as a exams for studying in the US at the American for The Address Downtown and The One & writer specializing in architecture, design, lifestyle Embassy in Jeddah with approximately Only The Palm—they both continue to win and culture. She contributes regularly to Beijing- 200 local Saudi boys—I was the only girl international awards. We opened a gorgeous based China Daily, Shanghai-based Luxury in the room!” She passed, got her Masters JW Marriott in Azerbaijan’s Baku last May as Properties, UK-based Sleeper and NYC-based degree in architecture from Texas A&M and well as a very avant garde Sofitel in Abu Dhabi. Hospitality Design. She is currently writing an anniversary monograph for Hong Kong-based next ended up in Egypt working for a local Some of our more recent projects are two new developer Sun Hung Kai on the burgeoning hub businessman there. ski resorts in Azerbaijan, a couple of hotels in of West Kowloon and KPF’s design for ICC, its “Due to my inability to speak Arabic, my India and a Four Seasons in Buenos Aires.” landmark building. 40 Alumni Risala, the lobby lounge entrance. Image courtesy of Wa International. Alumni 41 Living Abroad Camille Chauvin B.E.D. spent a year travelling after graduating in 2009. Above: Barber in Hampi, Karnataka, India.
By Camille Chauvin | I will always remember partnered institutions; the Bern University is also extreme poverty almost everywhere you the day that I arrived in Canada for the first of Applied Sciences for Architecture, Wood look. It’s heartbreaking and completely beyond time. I was 18 years old, leaving behind my and Civil Engineering (BUAS), the Western your control. home country of Switzerland; I felt lost and Switzerland University of Applied Sciences One day, I was walking in a commercial area confused, but also amazed. I came on my own College of Engineering and Architecture of in Bangalore when a small child approached to spend one year as an exchange student Fribourg (EIA-FR) and the Geneva Institute me, begging for money. He was probably about in a small town called Gimli, Manitoba. As I of Technology, Architecture and Landscape seven or eight years old, and carrying a baby. arrived, I realized right away that my English (hepia-ge). Giving money to these children is not an option was extremely poor; I could not understand The concept of the school is that one is able because it is often stolen by adults or older anyone. It was a struggle in the beginning but to take classes in each of these schools and people in their circle. The boy eventually asked eventually, I made my way through. also attend theory seminars in each of the for food. I said, “Okay,” and asked him what he Everything, from the cars and streets to the three locations alternately. This curriculum wanted to have. He pointed at a McDonald’s. skyline looked completely different. As I spent offers students great flexibility and a wide It seems such a cliché, a white person buying more time in Canada, I became more and more range of choices as classes can be taught in McDonald’s for poor kids, but I bought two attached to the people, places, and culture and German, French, or English. happy meals (at least they would have a toy this one-year experience turned into five. You As an interactive school, it welcomes afterwards) and saw very happy and excited can never truly anticipate how you will feel students from across the world and lets kids after that. about a new place and guess what experiences students from Switzerland undergo one Small things like this occur every day but they you will have on your way. semester abroad. When I applied for this are not nearly enough to combat the overall Connected as I was to everything I had come exchange, I realized that while Madrid, effect of poverty in the country. In Mumbai, to know in Canada, I felt the need to go back Amsterdam, or any number of Western cities India’s largest city, over 60% of people live in to my native land upon graduation. would provide a great learning experience, slums. It is an extremely concerning issue. At that point, I wasn’t sure what I really I wanted something completely new I have heard it said that when you go to India, wanted to do or if architecture was meant for and unusual. you come back as a new person. I don’t know me. So I decided to take some time off to travel With my interest in humanitarian how much I have changed yet, but I have learnt around Europe. Through my travels, I was architecture I felt that India, a country a lot through this experience. It is a beautiful exposed to countless examples of memorable completely different from what I was used country to visit, but there is also a huge and architecture, lifestyles, and cuisines! to, provided an interesting opportunity and seemingly widening gap between the rich and After a year or so away from my studies, my challenge. Switzerland has a population of the poor. My hope is that in the future, as an mind was clear and I knew I wanted to work just under eight million people, the equivalent architect, I will be able to help them in some in architecture. population to India’s third largest city, kind of way. I chose to do internships at two different Bangalore, where my school was located. Living abroad opens your mind to the world. Swiss architectural firms in Geneva: Group8, The pollution and overpopulation that you It is rich in experience and allows you to gain and DLV architectes & associés. These have undoubtedly heard about definitely exists knowledge from and to meet so many different experiences reaffirmed my desire to work in throughout much of India. You are likely to people. I will never regret any of the travels that architecture and convinced me to continue find cows walking alone in the streets on a I have taken, even if some yielded unexpected my studies in graduate school. regular basis. The smells can be overwhelming results. There is always something to learn and In September 2011, I finally went back to and many people display a general disregard gain from every experience.• school in Switzerland after two years off. The for the environment and the beauty of their
Scooter traffic, Bangalore, Karnataka, India. school I chose to study at consists of three surroundings, especially in urban areas. There 42 Alumni Alumni 43 with a new architectural landmark for the Thunder Bay Waterfront. As Miwon Kwon discusses in her book One Place After Another, certain public art practices abandoned the phenomenologically oriented mode of site-specific art (Richard Serra), moving beyond the inherited conception of site-specific art as a grounded, fixed, singular event to advance an altogether different notion of a site as predominantly an intertextually coordinated, multiply located, discursive field of operation. This transformation leads to a new relationship with the work and the site is no longer comprised by the over imposition of a single fixed object; rather the actual relationships produced by the work establish a new sense of place. Kwon continues to say that today’s site-oriented practices inherit the task of demarcating the relational specificity that nature” evokes the Ojibwe mythology, and can hold in dialectical tension the distant poles serves the many formative features of the of spatial experience. In Jiigew [By the Water] project’s context and the City of Thunder Bay’s the art serves as a story-telling machine; it history. Some of these dualities are: land/sea, works as a beacon; it is present like a sculpture earth/sky, Port Arthur/Fort William, day/night, with its materiality referencing the local ship- summer/winter, sun/moon, sleeping/awake, building tradition (in fact, the sculpture myth/reality, etc. In this way we do not see a disappears among the crowd of masts); it separation between the art (light/sound) and marks the land in the moment it touches the Jiigew [By the Water] the architecture (the beacon’s structure) but sea; it lights up the public space; it spatially recognize the full integration of the two as a organizes the end of two waterfront piers; it major force of this project, producing a poetic gives a new sense of place to the lakeshore, Jiigew [By the Water] | is a project by Eduardo By Eduardo Aquino and Karen Shanski | and contemporary public art moved from synthesis on the Thunder Bay coastline. and so on. Maybe the real art no longer lies Aquino and Karen Shanski, in collaboration The Ojibwe believed the thunder to be a great rigid formality to generate new genres of art From these site and cultural considerations within the object, but instead resides in the with Brooke McIlroy and Patricia Ningewance massive bird called thunderbird, whose eyes practices, engaging with audiences in multiple Jiigew [By the Water] was created. The two in-between of all the new relationships the art Nadeau. shoot out lightning and thunder. The first ways to address the compelling questions of different towering cor-ten steel structures is producing in the space, anticipating a new Thunder Bay Public Art Project for the Beacons on Pier 1 & 3 - Port Arthur’s Landing Waterfront, thunder in early spring was something good to our time. The traditional confinement of the (65 feet high) calmly mark the encounter of representation for this shoreline inhabited by 2010-12. Two 65 feet high cor-ten steel structures, hear, for the Ojibwe welcomed their protector artist working in a studio was disturbed, and the water with the city, creating a landmark the people of Thunder Bay.• programmed LED lighting system, and sound. again from its home in the south where it had a new understanding of the city as the real for the ones who approach the lake from the been all the winter. Norval Morrisseau studio surfaced. Port Arthur urban plateau, or for boaters who In our creative process we recognize these approach the city from the water. Using the Public art has evolved in the past forty years evolutions as a means to address public language of Morse code, the lighting cascades from the modernist primer of the autonomous space through art, and the design of the down the structures to communicate the words contemplative object to engage other elements Thunder Bay Beacons was an opportunity of a long discursive poem about the encounter of the site and the visitor’s experience. From to articulate many of these issues in simple of the people with the water. The poem was the isolated autonomy of the sculpture it and elegant structures, inhabiting them composed in collaboration with Ojibwe artist, moved to consider the specificity of the site, with multiple meanings through advanced author, and educator Patricia Ningewance recognizing it as an essential response to the technologies. The design concept developed Nadeau and describes this relationship with spatial character of the place in relation to the for the City of Thunder Bay Public Art Project the water from the perspective of the Ojibwe, object. From site-specificity, the public art for the Beacons on Pier 1 & 3 at Port Arthur’s who were the first people to inhabit that object increased in complexity by engaging Landing has carefully considered the idea of land. The poem, narrated in both Ojibwe and factors such as perception, culture, and “duality” as a major conceptual direction for English, is broadcasted through a sound system content as being formative components of the project. We considered duality not as installed at the bottom of each beacon. Jiigew the art, moving the approach toward site- opposites but as complementary parts of a [By the Water] was an opportunity to affirm responsiveness. Many of the evolutions whole, understanding the Beacons as part the possibility of engaging multiple levels and transformative practices connected to of one whole cityscape: the shoreline, the of media and meanings, producing a more public space in recent decades led to a new lake, and the landscape beyond. The quality complex artistic experience in public space, openness and questioning in process and form, or state of “being dual” or of “having a dual and at the same time marking the site gently 44 Alumni Alumni 45 Prix de Rome | The Prix de Rome in Architecture for Emergerging Practitioners is awarded annually by the Canadian Council for the Arts to an exceptional graduate of an accredited architecture program. The $34, 000 award provides the recipient with funds to conduct a personal research project. The awards also includes an international internship at a highly acclaimed design firm.
Camera setup on location in Bordeaux, France and Porto, Portugal.
By Samantha Lynch | In February of 2011, sciences university east of the river, also visitation of the chosen buildings. I was awarded the opportunity to carry out caught my interest. By March 2012, I was ready to make the my own research work for a year in Europe. I We left Bordeaux along the coast cycling return journey. I set out for the chosen projects proposed to explore the relationship between though sparsely populated seaside towns of with my strange camera: a sort of recording architecture, time, and the imagination ice cream, neon lights, and nude beaches, and inventing arrangement comprised of through the study of a series of contemporary and arrived in the Basque country. After a a relational positioning device, a series of built projects. This study was achieved by the short visit to Bilbao we boarded a small, two- cameras, and a set of interchangeable drawing invention and production of a site-specific car train that took us through the forested and mirror tools. photographic process. This process was used mountains of northern Spain, into the clouds, Activated in temporal relation to each other, to visually discuss the temporal and visceral past giant lakes, and to the city of Leon in the the cameras worked to capture overlapping navigations of the constructed world. Spanish plains. Here we visited MUSAC, the durations. These durations (ranging from My research led me to Berlin—to an city’s contemporary art museum, a changeable 1/250 sec to 1.5 hrs) pieced together a internship at Fat Koehl Architekten with and pleasingly confounding building that situation. Two cameras captured the “same” amazing people and fascinating work in a city became another of my re-visitations. image simultaneously for differing durations, of varying texture and situation, music, colour, In Porto, Portugal I visited the Casa da and another camera captured the setup of the and full of the architecture of a dynamic and Musica and attended the opening and closing drawing tools in both chance relation to the unfathomable present. Berlin led me to of Wagner’s Ring Saga. The building is its own architecture and as a register of the shifting Biergartens, the best falafel ever, and my first sort of whimsical world, and the presence of physical relationship between the other two. Christmas goose. the city plays a part in this. The drawing tools, designed with certain That fall I began my preliminary research trip The simplicity of the Saga’s stage set and its properties and questions in mind from the Taken with cameras 1 and/or 2. Courtyard in León Spain. to visit contemporary works while searching anachronisitic inhabitation helped to generate previous visits to these projects, were a way for an architectural experience that eludes ideas for my project. The set was presented of marking and transforming the image while description in magazines and photographs. in such a way that its frame could be the responding and shifting my relationship to the Travelling by either slow train or bicycle, my whole of planet earth, an apartment, a forest, immediate presence of the architecture. A Year & Back partner and I made our way west, to projects a conversation, with only its inhabitation The main body of work is still in progress both old and new throughout Germany, The shifting. This experience helped contextualize and will be exhibited in the coming year. Samantha Lynch, M.Arch, Netherlands, and to Amiens and Paris. In the periphery of my own project. The photos will have a three-dimensional Paris I found a potential site on the grounds of In Lisbon we visited the Portuguese Pavilion relationship to each other. reflects on her travels and a museum by Jean Nouvel. We also travelled for Expo ‘98, which became the last of the The photo on the opposite page utilizes a research after being awarded through the Loire Valley, passing through areas buildings I was to revisit. This project is the drawing tool to displace sections of building the 2011 Prix de Rome. of troglodytic architecture and sleeping in most temporally relevant of my chosen sites, or city. Using this tool meant I could introduce strange European campsites. because of how it is affected by atmospheric disparate elements in response to certain It was in Bordeaux that I found the Palais changes. interests. In the case of the courtyard site, de Justice, the first of the five buildings that At last we visited the last building for my the project itself was a building that instead I would return to study. The Palias has a research, the Kolumba Museum in Cologne, of being created from the primary idea of complex relationship between its materiality, Germany. We then returned to Berlin, where materials seemed to have been created from inhabitants, program, and the city itself. I began the 4-month development of the bits of building. I was working in response to Another project in Bordeaux, a management pinhole cameras that I would use on my re- this interpretation of the architecture. • 46 Alumni Alumni 47 Partners International
By Doug Clark | The Architecture Program relationship between them and their former graduates who are looking to pursue and entering University One) – is housed in the Some of the many activities was officially created at the University of school. The relationship could be established expand their work and education experience. basement of the Education Building, while Manitoba in 1913. Between 1919 and 2013 the through many avenues, such as creating a Our students can benefit significantly Architecture Students (ED-3 and 4 – Arch that help grow the bond that program has expanded significantly and over communication and profile piece similar to through the knowledge that exists from our Option) and Graduate Students in joins U of M students. 6,200 students have graduated with over the Alumni Profiles in this issue of Network, alumni who are living and working outside of Architecture are located in the Architecture 13 different design degrees at the graduate having former graduates return and deliver a North America. 2 Building ( formerly Fine Arts). City Planning, and undergraduate level. Since we have “Centre Space” presentation to students, or The bond that joins U of M graduates is Interior Design and Landscape Architecture started tracking our alumni and retain current by creating an international educational and unique, both due to the international nature Graduate Programs are housed on the addresses for these graduates we are able to work experience such as the concept currently of the education that has been provided within 300-level of the John A Russell Building as are determine that approximately 190 are located being explored by Lend Lease in Australia. the school and some of the unique attributes: the ED-3 and 4 years of Interior Environment outside of North America in 42 different The world is open to our graduates and the • Ditchball celebrated its 38 year in 2013. ( to and Landscape and Urbanism options. countries. Unfortunately over 1570 of our ability to work through an integrated design see this year’s event - youtube/PbI_Y3MVLBg Throughout the upcoming year, the Partners graduates have gone missing and we expect process can occur seamlessly anywhere • Hut J Program will be seeking to contact you, there are many in that list which would qualify that the opportunity may exist. Bi-annual • The Architecture ATCO Trailers,(painted update your profiles and explore ideas for for “International Status.” international studio’s like Kelly Beaverford’s pink during the first Ditchball “Bill Bodie” reconnecting with the Faculty of Architecture Since the Partners Program was created by Global Service Learning Initiatives are winter festival) during this upcoming Centennial Year. In the the Faculty of Architecture in 1993-94 one extremely important to students, and the • Warehouse ( issue 21 released in Oct 2012) meantime, do not hesitate to contact us and of the primary goals was to link our students variety of Architectural studio’s to Turkey, • The Jury Room (now a digital fabrication Lab) keep us up-to date with what you have been and faculty to both industry and practice Brazil, Iceland and Germany this past year, • Centre Space and the Courtyard doing and give us an insight to some of the but also build stronger relationships with as well as the annual ED-3 – Landscape and (redeveloped but still the same) great projects that you have been working on. our alumni. Partner membership through Urbanism -European Studio give the students • The Climate (milder but still four seasons) • annual subscription fees has generally glimpses of different environments, but • Studio (much the same) related to “Partners” within the immediate nothing equals the insight that comes from • Student Lounge (thank you EQ3) regional location. living and working in a particular environment. If you have the opportunity to return to The goal of Partners International is to Sharing of job opportunities, language, lifestyle Winnipeg – you will notice some significant reconnect with our alumni and establish a and cultural considerations is invaluable to changes. ED-2 (the first formal year after 48 Partners Program Partners Program 49 Medicine, Engineering, Fine Art and Music. I was moved by the openness and collegiality shared among attendees, and gratified to witness alignment of new ideas, demonstrated by the Deans Beddoes and Stern as well as the larger community. This is fresh and inventive thinking, and people are getting really excited about it. I am confident that the event of March 13, marks the first crossroads of many. •
Forging New Left: Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects | Manitoba Hydro Place Above: Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Jonathan Beddoes and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Ralph Stern Top Right: Chair, Partners Program, Jacqueline Jasinski MIddle: CEO, Bockstael Construction, Chair of Friends of Engineering, John Bockstael Relationships Bottom Right: Energy Advisor and Manager, Head Office Facilities, Manitoba Hydro, Tom Akerstream Below: Architects and Engineers at the Event
By Jacqueline Jasinski | A social evening was enjoyed by members of the architectural and engineering communities on March 13, 2013 at the Manitoba Hydro Building, in acknowledgement of new relationships evolving in practice, in industry, and in professional education. The event presented as a joint offering of Friends of Engineering and the Partners Program, and presenters included Dean of Architecture Ralph Stern together with Dean of Engineering Jonathan Beddoes, as well as Tom Akerstream of Manitoba Hydro. In attendance were over 90 practitioners, academics, students and industry leaders, who had opportunity to meet and share ideas over dinner and drink. Over the last few years, there has been an unmistakable groundswell of change, which is redefining how architecture and engineering interact. In industry, we’ve seen a quite dramatic change within consulting: engineering firms absorbing architectural firms and vice versa; differing professional cultures learning (and sometimes struggling) to develop new ways of working together. In practice, the change is unmistakable. We have evolved from working in isolation, to the Integrated Design Process, and to the current day integrative and collocated teams: architects, side by side with building engineers, environmental specialists, geoscientists, & contractors. In academia, change is afoot. For perhaps the first time, we are witnessing collaborative discussions between Faculties: Architecture, 50 Partners Program Partners Program 51 Visionary (Re)Generation
Open International Design Competition: Envisioning a Sustainable Campus Community
The University is hosting as well attracting and retaining both students campus community through the development VISIONARY (re)GENERATION, an Open and staff. The character of the campus, of a new dense, compact, mixed, and International Design Competition, with the the density and massing of buildings, the sustainable neighbourhood serviced by public objective of transforming the Fort Garry Campus objectives for open spaces and plazas, the transportation, all while maintaining as much into a sustainable 24/7 live, work, learn, play experience of the streetscape, as well as of the existing mature tree stands as possible. community. overarching sustainability objectives will be The Southwood Precinct will be an inclusive addressed through the design of the campus community capable of housing up to 6000 The competition will take place in two environment. people if desired. It will offer a variety of design phases with submissions evaluated There is also a strong emphasis on lifestyle opportunities for a wide range of user anonymously by a jury of professional sustainability from a social, economic and groups from students, families, single parents, landscape architects, planners, architects, ecological standpoint. The University wishes older adults, Winnipeg’s growing Aboriginal and primary stakeholders. The winning multi- to demonstrate what a sustainable future population, new immigrants and international disciplinary team will be awarded a contract could look like and how it can function as a students. The Southwood Precinct will offer an to engage in a campus planning process with ‘living lab’ where alternative ways of living and assortment of housing options and price points university and community stakeholders. The learning can be experienced. This aligns with mixed in with restaurants, boutiques and other coordination and conduct of the competition the University’s mandate to be nationally and services. The intent is to focus on the creation is being assured by the architectural practice internationally recognized for its teaching, of an exceptional public realm that creates the [phase eins]. out of Berlin, Germany. research and creative excellence, in addition social spaces for everyday life that will help to Registration opened on December 6th 2012, to being sought after by students and faculty foster a strong community and high quality of and closed on January 15th of 2013 with a total alike as their preferred site of study. life. of 729 registrations, however only a portion Included within the Fort Garry Campus is The recent construction of the stadium of these registrants will submit projects. An the Southwood Precinct. This former golf adjacent to the Southwood Precinct gives announcement of the winning consultant course was designed by Willie Park Jr. of new opportunities for the campus to become team will be made in October of 2013. Musselburgh Scotland (1864-1925), and a destination site within the city, and with University administration recognizes then later redesigned by famed Canadian the anticipated arrival of a Bus Rapid Transit that the built environment is an important Landscape Architect Stanley Thompson (BRT), the campus will become connected to element of having an exceptional student (1893-1953) in 1925. The land was purchased the rest of the city in an exciting way. • experience, being an outstanding employer with the intention of creating a sustainable
52 Competitions Left: Photo taken by Dustin Dilts Competitions 53 Migrating {Bounded} Landscapes Manitoba
Jason Hare
Biography | Jason Hare is deeply interested in how individuals and collective groups engage with their surrounding environments and the objects that reside within them. His passion manifests itself through the physical act of making spurred on through the exploration of material processes. His research focuses on the metabolic processes of materials and the identity shift that occurs through assemblages. Jason is driven by a desire to keep his feet on the ground and his head in the clouds. He is currently undertaking a Master of Landscape Architecture degree at the University of Manitoba. Migrating Landscapes
Migrating Landscapes was selected by a each with their own unique ethnic and cultural Project | This project focuses on the generated a sense of ‘home,’ nested within national juried competition as Canada’s memories, respond to these questions. interconnected relationship between the this sprawling land. Now after years spent official entry at the 2012 Venice Biennale in Migrating Landscapes acted as a forum urban and the rural dwelling. The perceived developing new relationships and contextual Architecture.It was presented by Winnipeg- for Canadian architects and designers to contrast of these two environments continues awareness within an urban framework, I based 5468796 Architecture and Jae-Sung investigate, provoke, document and expose the to breed a sense of disconnect between find myself attempting to begin settling Chon, who joined together for this project to unique manifestations of cultural memory that where it is we call home and where we go to between the electricity exuded by an urban form a new entity: the Migrating Landscapes overlay Canada today and how it might emerge escape the home. How one begins to ‘settle’ dwelling and the stillness found within a rural Organizer (MLO). in the future. MLO designed a ‘new landscape’ between these two places leads to the physical setting. With a new set of eyes my partner – an abstract exhibition infrastructure – and manifestation of form. As the dwelling settles and I continue on a weekly migration to the Migrating Landscapes| Increasingly, invited, through a national competition, young within the physical landscape of which it southern Manitoba landscape, in an attempt to contemporary design is produced within Canadian architects and designers to design belongs to, the model shares this same settling develop a relationship between a deteriorating a context that is globally, rather than ‘dwellings’ based on their cultural memories. act within the abstract migrating landscape of homestead that feeds the urban and a growing regionally, situated. The work of emerging The invitation is an enactment of ‘settling- which it belongs. In doing so the dwelling and urban that consumes the rural.• designers is influenced by glossy and well- unsettling,’ and the dwellings discussed various the landscape are ultimately bound to each presented images that blur design context forms of migrated memories that ‘settled- other, sharing a distinct relationship, defined and authenticity. Within this framework we unsettled’ into the ‘new landscape.’ The by the processes that enacted them. This ask: how might specific cultural memory dwellings and the landscape, together formed project is ultimately exploring how a dwelling be captured and rendered, informing the the exhibition at Venice 2012. The following can have its own identity while simultaneously ways we generate design? How do divergent are the winners from the exhibition.• existing within the greater environment of perspectives come together and thereby which its form was generated from. create new contextual landscapes? Can the text taken from migratinglandscapes.ca/ juxtaposition of personal vernacular memories Narrative | Growing up in a rural prairie and questions of context and content provide settlement north of Winnipeg, I had developed insight into contemporary architectural Note | In the Migrating Landscape projects a deep sense of respect and admiration for the production? Migrating Landscapes asked that on the following pages, Faculty of Architecture surrounding landscape. Those who structured Canadian designers from diverse backgrounds, students and alumni have been identified in red. and tended to the vast fields of produce 54 Competitions Competitions 55 Pickle House An Unfinished Basement Manitoba British Columbia
Anca Matyiku + Chad Connery D’Arcy Jones Biography | Anca Matyiku and Chad Biography | D’Arcy Jones Design (DJD) Connery entertain both a reverence for the was founded in 2000, immediately after carefully crafted and an appetite for the D’Arcy Jones completed a Master of accidental. They harbour a slight obsession Architecture degree. D’Arcy has gained for how time reveals the fragility of the invaluable design, technical, and artistic seemingly permanent, and inadvertently, experience through his own creative how the seemingly insignificant process of trial and error. DJD has grown accumulates meaning when repeated over to be an agile design practice working on a time. Anca and Chad’s research is driven wide range of projects at diverse scales. by a preoccupation with how architecture DJD’s award-winning work has been dialectically engages the living processes widely published. In 2009 their projects that envelop it through time. were featured in the Twenty + Change Chad Connery holds a Bachelor of 02 Exhibition and their Form & Forest Environmental Design degree and a Master cabin prototype “The Cowboy” earned a of Architecture degree from the University Canadian Architect Award of Merit. In 2010 of Manitoba. Anca Matyiku completed a D’Arcy Jones was awarded the inaugural Bachelor of Architectural Studies degree Arthur Erickson Memorial Award. at University of Waterloo and a Masters of Architecture degree at the University of Manitoba.
Project | The act of “dwelling” within a Canada, my migratory journey is not one over hope to learn its moods and the subtleties of Project | A childhood migration from an construction brought the remaining 97 houses and osmotically absorbed the intricacies landscape is a relationship based on an political boundaries, but rather a movement its temperaments. established neighbourhood to a new house in and their inhabitants. of house construction. accumulation of repeated necessities. It is a from agrarian Canada to urban Canada. A We began a settlement through a series of an unsettled subdivision exposed the author My parents found it lonely and otherworldly As second generation Canadians, my kind of mundane ritual that accrues meaning youth spent in the ever-shifting establishment vessels, and inhabited the flows between them. to the frontier of an unfinished basement. to be surrounded by the dirt, wood, concrete, parents and their peers tended to focus on over time and so it is both a repeated same- of the farmhouse leaves me unsure and Beginning with a small urn vessel as a base unit Embracing the banal, this entry celebrates and chaos of construction. Concerned with completeness and keeping up appearances. ness and a constantly evolving relationship suspicious of the finality and terminal nature for repetition—like a brick. The landscape is commonplace construction methods minimizing their unsettled feelings, my dad For me, a first generation Canadian Suburban to place. of urban dwelling. Rural living is a home augmented and colonized by these units for that typify the Canadian building culture. installed instant turf, fencing, and hedges as Unfinished Basement Dweller, construction Beginning with the basic necessity of and mode of dwelling that is never finished growing, storing, and pickling food. Everyday materials become the ingredients soon as he could, to recreate the landscape itself became synonymous with settlement and obtaining and preserving nourishment, we and celebrated in shifting usage through its The Settling: of fantastic new spaces that re-think how a we had moved from, and to lay claim to their habitation: digging, cutting, layering, pouring, playfully wonder how a “dwelling” might seasonal and life long timescales. The physical settling consists of an oven, a typical suburban plot of land might be used. plot of land. trenching, and joining. manifest as a “pickling” of the landscape, how Anca: The house that holds the most compost tower, and a series of armatures that Construction itself becomes synonymous with As for me, I was more interested in exploring Settling is a work-in-progress, and the work the architecture engages the living landscape profound sense of dwelling is my grandmother’s enable relationships between them, and the settlement and habitation: digging, cutting, the potential of our unfinished basement: my is never finished.• through a metabolic process of preserve- house in Romania, where I spent my childhood. brick-like urns which they hold. layering, pouring, trenching, and joining. new homestead. Looking for the best way making. To construct it, my grandma first built an oven, During the spring ritual, the urns migrate to Critical of the relentless pursuit of the new and to inhabit this nearly windowless cavern, An organism that is simultaneously the in which she baked the bricks that slowly the south, where they are to be planted with the complete, this entry celebrates settling as a I constantly rearranged the space into a pickle and the process of pickling, the dwelling accumulated into a home of simple repetitions. the year’s harvest. work-in-progress that is never finished. workshop, a fort, a gym, and a movie theatre. is composed of a series of metabolic vessels My memories of home are intricately linked As fall approaches, they fill with preserves, and Narrative | My family migrated when I was 10 Every thinkable activity seemed appropriate and armatures that facilitate the flows within. with the timescales of growing food and of gradually build the dwelling’s winter armature. years old; we moved 3 kilometers across town, in that strange subterranean void, from Its “bricks” are repeated containers that grow, seasons—with the smells and textures which The dwelling is stitching and metabolizing from a comfortable home in an established flying model airplanes to building Meccano hold, and preserve food. They construct and accompany the ritualized harvest. the abstracted landscape. Its rituals, events, neighbourhood, to a decommissioned contraptions, lighting fires, to playing with re-construct the architecture according to the THE FIRST ACT OF SETTLING We are to and spaces are shaped and facilitated by farmer’s field that was being transformed into toxic chemicals. cycles and seasons of its landscape. Over time, settle a landscape whose cycles and rituals vessels of different physical and temporal a new subdivision. Commonplace building materials, plumbing the dwelling accumulates within it the subtle have seemingly little relationship to those scales. Our house was one of the first of 100 to pipes, and electrical wiring comprised the temperaments of its landscape and the shifting we have inhabited before. We wonder what The dwelling will change in time, accumulating be constructed. The streets, sidewalks, backdrop of my adolescence—and it is needs of its inhabitants. kind of life it sustains, what kind of temporal within it the life of its landscape and the life of fire hydrants, and light posts were already through this exposure that I grew familiar with Narrative | Chad: Born in the depths of rural cycles and seasons affect it. Over time, we its dwellers.• built, and over the next 5 years, constant infrastructure that is normally concealed, 56 Competitions Competitions 57 re|settlements Saskatchewan The Winnipeg Condition Manitoba Victoria Yong-Hing + Robyn Robertson + Mark Sin + Brad Travis Cooke + Jason Kun Pickard + April Hiebert Biography | Travis Cooke and Jason Kun are registered members of the Manitoba Biography | OPEN is a collaborative formed Association of Architects and the Royal by five graduates from Dalhousie University’s Architecture Institute of Canada. Both School of Architecture. All five currently work Travis and Jason were born and raised in different architecture firms and reside in in Winnipeg. Since graduating from the the province of Saskatchewan. With diverse University of Manitoba in 2002 and 2004 backgrounds, upbringings, and experiences, respectively, they have collaborated on they have each started the process of settling national and international award winning in Saskatchewan after years of studying and projects at their previous offices. Travis and living across Canada and abroad. Collectively, Jason are now Principals of 1x1 architecture their education, travel, and work experiences inc., along with Glen Gross and Markian have given them a broad perspective of the Yereniuk. They operate out of a 292 built environment and prompted them to square foot windowless office space on the be part of the dialogue and change in their outskirts of Osborne Village, but hope to communities. The mandate of OPEN is to migrate to a new space in the near future. engage the public and to challenge perceptions through discourse, social experiments, public art, and architecture. OPEN hopes to promote new ways of thinking about and experiencing the built environment of the Canadian Prairies.
Project | The landscape represents the V: Victoria Yong-Hing So the void is sort of twofold: 1) A void within Project | Our entry is an exploration of the of the people and places that are left behind. opportunity. When cracks form in a sidewalk combined timelines of five young intern A: What’s your background? yourself, a feeling of not belonging necessarily, effect of migration from the perspective of While our own personal migrations have been they bring with them new life. Departure leaves architects. It expresses how the interaction V: I guess I have a pretty mixed background. not being at home; 2) There is also the void the people and places that are left behind. We significant, they have not had as profound an a space for new people, cultures, and ideas of personal experiences, backgrounds, and I was born on the prairies, but my parents are that you try to fill within a place. were both born, educated, and now practise influence on our idea of settlement as has the to dwell. cultures can influence the environments of from England, Ireland, Scotland, Germany, M: I guess the voids can almost be seen or architecture in Winnipeg, and have watched migration of those around us. others. Five models inhabit the landscape by Guyana, and China. interpreted as an absence of self… countless friends, family members, and Our project looks at the other side of When you leave, does a part of you stay?• infilling space, just as one seeks to establish B: I was born and raised in the prairies, my R: Well it’s like you are leaving your mark, right? colleagues leave our city. This phenomenon, migration in an attempt to understand its a sense of place in new surroundings. Layers family background is: English, Scottish, You are leaving your imprint or mark on a place. which we have termed “The Winnipeg influence on the people and places that are of the model are built-up experiences in Norwegian, Swedish, and a little bit V: You are actually contributing to the Condition,” has left an indelible void on the left behind. It explores the potential of loss which we burrow, adapt, and inhabit. Each of Cherokee. landscape. So you, by being there, and physical and psychological landscape of our and the settling/unsettling that occurs when model is unique with its individual voids, as A: I was born and raised in the prairies, and my settling, you are actually changing and altering city and its inhabitants. Conversely, departure people leave and new people arrive. is each individual with their experiences, background is: German, Polish, and Ukrainian. the landscape… leaves a space for new people, cultures, and The “Winnipeg condition” is unfamiliar to but continuity from one model to the next M: Cambodian, partly Vietnamese, was born in A: … and there is still room within that place ideas to dwell. those who live in “world cities” such as New represents the commonalities and links Cambodia, lived in refugee camps in Thailand, that we feel that we can still search within The project endeavours to illustrate the York, Toronto, Tokyo, London, or Berlin, but between each person and the influence of one raised in Vancouver. that void… result of these migrations, exploring concepts quite familiar to those living in small towns, on the other. These carved voids are visible at R: I was born in the prairies and grew up in the R: …for our identities. such as solid versus void, part versus whole, struggling cities, and developing countries. varying levels of transparency when viewed foothills of the Rocky Mountains. I’m Scottish, V: Yeah so, when you settle into a new place loss versus gain, and here versus there. •It is the condition of wanting to be elsewhere from different perspectives. The voids—an German, and a little bit Russian. you are searching for how you can exist within When you leave, does a part of you stay? even when a place is your home; absence of a presence—are an imprint of the V: I guess our landscape represents all of that place. All of us come from a background When someone leaves you, do they take a part •It is seeing greatness in people and watching alterations left behind through the process our combined experiences. The things that of searching and moving. We ourselves of you with them? them take it to places that already seem to of migration. Overall, the project represents existed, as well as the spaces. have done the same thing, and we continue Narrative | Our submission is not an have so much; our continual search for identity and a A: When you go to a place, you feel unsettled… to search. illustration of our personal heritage or a •It is coming to visit but not wanting to stay; reconciliation of place through habitation and V&A: You feel out of place… V: We’re still searching, and that influences us, reflection of how that heritage might influence •It is loathing it and loving it at the same time. migration. M: And there’s a void… and that search is probably a good thing—it’s how we think about the notion of settlement. The eroding landscape is both physical and Narrative | A: April Hiebert | B: Brad Pickard V: You feel that there’s a void, but you also seek a way forward. • Rather, it is an exploration of the effect of psychological. The voids it creates are not M: Mark Sin | R: Robyn Robertson out spaces for yourself that you can exist in. migration on dwelling from the perspective seen as being negative; they are incubators of 58 Competitions Competitions 59 They Will Arrive One Day Why New Brunswick? Manitoba New Brunswick
Andre Silva + Chris Gilmour + Monica Adair + Stephen Kopp + Kory Kaspersion John Leroux + Jessie Croll + Alicia Halas Biography | The MLO team “219” is a group of young Winnipeg designers who Biography | Based in Eastern Canada, Acre have created an open studio environment Architects draws upon the expertise of the to invite students, practitioners, and acre collective, a small group of talented like-minded designers to collaborate on artists, landscape architects, writers, and architectural investigations. Andre Silva and architects. The collective finds fresh ways to Chris Gilmour investigate the inexpressible tackle projects and produce new outcomes elements of architecture that affect our through a collaborative spirit of playfulness sense of place. This architectural and artistic and exploration. With Saint John as its home inquiry is the foundation for a long-term base, the Acre aims to promote a greater body of research that shares a constant understanding of the role of contemporary interplay and presence in simultaneous architecture in shaping the culture and modes of production: art installation, identity of New Brunswick. Together, design competitions, and formal practice in Stephen Kopp, Monica Adair, John Leroux, architecture and design. Kory Kaspersion, Jessie Croll and Alicia Halas form the Acre’s design professional and fellow graduate Migrating Landscapes team. of Chris and Andre, joined the team to contribute to the MLO studio collaborative.
Project | Our submission is based on the dwelling. My wife is from Kiev, Ukraine and Project | Set within a province that has These questions are always posed with genuine of Saint John’s waterfront. Between the two, a social relationships created and left behind had come to Canada by herself, leaving her difficulty drawing settlers, our model promotes curiosity as though the questioners themselves bisecting highway is depicted that both literally during the migration of a family to Canada father, her mother, her two brothers, her an articulated sense of identity and place wouldn’t know how to answer. and figuratively inhibits access to the province. over an extended period of time. Our project is brother’s family, and her friends in Ukraine. for New Brunswick by envisioning a re- New Brunswick’s waters and abundant In its abstracted portrayal, an undulating reflective of the complexity of leaving a dense She has always felt a very strong connection energized destination for migrants at Saint forests have played a major role in Canada’s landscape along Saint John’s underutilized reliable network of relationships and arriving in to her homeland. Over the last year, our home John’s waterfront. history and development—today this fact waterfront is poised to host a new vibrant type an uncertain, unfamiliar place. Anchors act as has acted as a base for transitioning my wife’s The design depicts New Brunswick’s seems blurred by its reputation as a “drive- of habitation, encouraging a greater emphasis the adjustable and dynamic relationships that friends and family from Ukraine into Canada. forested landscape with an intervention on the through province” highlighting the difficulty on the public realm by fostering opportunities help us unsettle from where we come from We anticipate, over the next few years, we edge of Saint John’s waterfront. Between the of drawing settlers within the larger context for diversity, density, and community creation. and settle in the places we go to. Similarly, the will continue to bring over my wife’s friends two, an existing bisecting highway underlines of Canadian migration. Today Saint John is a Aiming to create a sense of identity and landscape in which our model sits offers the and family to live near us and around us in its reputation as the “drive-through province.” dwindling city in a province with a declining place, we recognize that grey is part of the dwelling opportunities to unsettle and settle Canada. Eventually this process will end and Grey is part of the collective psyche of population that struggles to communicate and collective psyche of Saint John, a city that fog in its journey from one condition to another. our home will have gone through a number of Saint John, a city that fog knows well. The prioritize its value and identity. knows well. This environment is juxtaposed by The physical model consists of several anchors adaptations and changes. The anchors that design juxtaposes this environment by the Over the past 225 years, Saint John’s port the introduction of bold colour found within attached to the landscape in multiple unique anchored my wife back to her homeland have introduction of bold colour found within the was a major gateway for Canada’s diverse the structure of this animated roofscape. The conditions and a dwelling held in the tensile also stretched, pulled, and influenced change structure of its animated roofscape. It further influx of immigrants, welcoming nearly a model further depicts a habitat as an intertidal and compressive relation created by the and adaptation in our home.• depicts an intertidal landscape that at once million newcomers. It opened its doors, setting landscape that at once reveals the wonder of anchors holding it in place. reveals the wonder of this dynamic place and the stage to be one of Canada’s most promising this dynamic place and represents its potential Narrative | I like to think of a landscape as a represents its potential transforming state. cities for business and new ideas—and it transforming state. dense network: coloured by social connections, Ultimately, a destination for tourism and once was. Our model chooses to promote The proposal ultimately puts forth a some solid in nature, tightly packed and habitation for new migrants is put forth, an articulated sense of identity and place for destination for tourism and habitation for accessible to latch on to, others loosely sustaining and enhancing Saint John and New the province, by envisioning, once again, a re- new migrants that sustains and enhances packed and void of certainty. And within this Brunswick’s geographical character. energized destination for migrants. Saint John and New Brunswick’s geographical landscape people act as anchors, offering us Narrative | Since my arrival in Saint John, New Connected to MLO’s contextual landscape, character, to change the question from “why?” points of connection that allow us to stabilize Brunswick five years ago, I’ve been constantly our plot depicts New Brunswick’s forested to “this is why.”• and settle. My wife and I live in a single family asked: Why Saint John? Why New Brunswick? landscape with our intervention on the edge 60 Competitions Competitions 61 huts lining the river trail. Some weekends the number of people visiting The Forks surpassed that of July and August. Paul Jordan further indicated that a sense of public pride is evident in conversations that are overheard on the trail, and “positive feedback comes to us through the media and through email comments. People are amazed each time we have opportunity to mention the global field of attraction that’s come to Winnipeg through the Warming Hut project.” The exchange of ideas and international exposure is beneficial to all. Winnipeg is becoming known as a centre that appreciates exceptional design. 2012’s successful entries were: Five-Hole by Gehry Partners, Los Angeles, CA; Wind Catcher by Tina Soli and Luca Roncoroni, Norway; Ice Pillows by Mjölk Team, Czech Republic; and Rope Pavilion by Kevin Erickson and Allison Warren, New York, NY. Perhaps no group of people are more excited about the Warming Huts project than the students of the Faculty of Architecture. There is great value in having the Faculty participate. As Western Canada’s oldest architecture school (founded in 1913), the climate and location are often directly cited as conditions which attribute to the isolation
“HotHut”: Styrofoam and polyurea (hut); steel and plywood (skid), 16’ x 8’ x 10’. of the school in a global setting, but projects such as this allow students to directly apply their local knowledge and learn from designers Warming Huts 2012/2013 from all over the world who are intrigued about working with new materials in this uniquely By Doug Clark 2012 | “When famed architect and one design is by invitation. The teams rugged environment. Frank Gehry designs and installs a one-of- are then invited to Winnipeg in January In 2012, following on the heels of last year’s a-kind warming hut in Winnipeg especially to construct and install their designs. The highly successful entry “Cocoon,” the Faculty
for your competition, you must be doing huts, which are erected on the Assiniboine of Architecture team carved a solid block of WEAVE WAVE Photo Credit: Dan Harper Photography something right,” stated Paul Jordan, COO Credit Union River Trail, rigourously push high density foam to create “HotHut.” The of The Forks Renewal Corporation as the the envelope of design and stimulate interest February 21, 2012 issue of Macleans.ca noted By Jae-Sung Chon 2013 | “I had a forty-five frozen river, a natural thing for Winnipeggers, is organization was presented with the “2012 through their innovative construction the following, “Grad student Paul Dolick was minute conversation with a guy in his 60s a not-so-available experience elsewhere, and Tourism Innovation Award of Distinction” at techniques and creative explorations in the one of the project leaders of the team of 21 resting at the hut (Weave Wave).” Colin a ‘hut’ structure that could provide ‘warmth’ the May 10 gala luncheon. use of materials. students and two faculty members: Professor Grover, one of the designers of the Hygge in negative thirty Celsius temperature, is the The Warming Hut competition, now in The Warming Hut’s online presence has Eduardo Aquino and Instructor Karen Shanski. House, a winning entry to the 2013 Warming challenge that many have responded to from its third year, was the brainchild of Peter led to coverage of the competition and In November the group got together and Hut Competition, noted of his recent around the world. From its inception in 2010 Hargraves of Sputnick Architecture as well as construction of the winning designs on over dedicated a full day to hammering out ideas experience on the river trail. Could a structure, the competition has been attracting artists, a number of other Winnipeg designers from 60 websites worldwide and in numerous and turning them into models, most of which designed and built by second year university designers and architects from all parts of the local firms including Scatliff+Miller+Murray languages. In 2012, the event was featured on ‘could fit in the palm of your hand.’ By the end students, only 4 months into their first design world: Norway, Israel, Czech Republic and and 5468796 Architecture Inc. The project The Rick Mercer Report on CBC televison, as of the day they had whittled 50 ideas down education, provide such a restful moment (a so on. has gained momentum and is primarily well as on local media outlets and in numerous to three or four that captured the ideas they 45-minute long one) to the public? Yes. Since 2011, the Faculty of Architecture has organized by The Forks and endorsed by the national publications. wanted to pursue. They ended up choosing ‘Building small structures along a river trail been invited to contribute a hut within the mix. Manitoba Association of Architects. During The biggest indication of the event’s growing the model that ‘allowed visitors to engage the where people can warm and extend their Both the ‘Cocoon’ in 2011 and the ‘Hot Hut’ in this past year the competition attracted over popularity came from the sheer number of hut and enjoy it wholeheartedly without being winter experience may be, as it sounds, a 2012 have demonstrated the school’s capacity 130 submissions from around the world. visitors that made their way to The Forks. removed from the activities going on around humble idea and hardly a challenging one that to respond to the challenge with innovation (in Five designs are selected from the Paul Jordan estimated that over 200,000 them.’ The carved foam, finished with a bright, would attract the world’s attention. The secret material and structure) and creativity (in its competition entries, one is from the Faculty people came to The Forks over the course of red plastic coating, allows skaters to feel as if ingredient must be the frigid winter cold of imagination), and have attracted attention of Architecture at the University of Manitoba, January and February to explore the intriguing they’re inside and outside at the same time.”• Winnipeg: the idea of a public skating trail on a from the world and dialogue with the>>> 62 Competitions Competitions 63 during the first four weeks of the winter term. Studio was yet again regrouped into task groups: documentation, presentation, waffle structure, slats structure, seesaw structure, ice column structure, ice tile surface, pop tab skin, and weaving. While each group focused on their own tasks, they also had to coordinate their efforts with each other to make sure that all the parts ‘fit’ together. Coordination and communication was a huge part of the process. The documentation and presentation group also had an additional task to prepare for two public presentations during this period, one at the Faculty of Architecture (the evening that introduced the Warming Hut 2013 teams) and one at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, as a part of 10x20x20. Aside from the fabrication and building of the hut, we were faced with another challenge: funding! While the projected budget of WEAVE WAVE was significantly less than the other professional entries, the difference is that it is a funded entry. Generous support fund from the Dean’s Office provided good seed funding but the studio had to raise three times that. This is when the ‘power of the collective’ really struck us. 100 students collected an amount that they would usually spend on a ‘studio project’. 100 x the amount gave an instant boost to the budget! Instructors joined in of course. Then an amazing thing happened: all of
WEAVE WAVE Photo Credit: Dan Harper Photography WEAVE WAVE Photo Credit: Dan Harper Photography the students went out to talk to their parents and friends, and their industry connection to >>>contributors and with the public. Different robust and buildable scheme; raise funds and and anxiety: excitement to have won the solicit support and in-kind donations. More from previous years, this year’s entry from the find donations; and build it on the ice with competition, first time as designers for most than $5,000 worth of material and in-kind Faculty of Architecture was decided to be 100 students. of them and anxiety in anticipation of how to donations were gathered within a week’s time! selected through an internal Faculty-wide How do you explore 100 ideas? How can you build a public structure for the first time in ‘Power of the Collective’ became the chant! competition. This was an added challenge build a singular structure from 100 ideas? How their career as designers. One huge learning experience for students in on top of the pressure to follow the success do you instruct 2nd year students, most of them Numerous meetings, announcements, this process was how to perform as a collective of the previous entries, which were results of experiencing ‘studio’ or ‘design’ for the first adjustments, groupings and re-groupings of design entity: how to acknowledge and work studio research groups selected to develop time in their lives? The entire process required ideas, materials and people quickly filled the with strengths of others’; respect strong ideas and build an entry based on its research and/ multiple levels of trust within the collective last five weeks of the fall term while developing even when it is not yours; how to work in ‘small or pedagogical interest. dynamics: instructors trusting each other and the idea through a series of iterations. The parts’, as perceived, and how to contribute to The instructor team in the second year trusting in responsive and responsible outputs five weeks were divided into two phases: idea the collective project. Without question, there Environmental Design studio, Jae-Sung from the students. developments phase within instructor units are a lot of things that could have been done Chon, Kim Wiese, Thomas Jeffery Garcia, The process began with a week charrette and a new cluster research phase focusing differently and better, but the entire ‘process’ Mohamad Araji, Alyssa Schwann, and Vaike in October generating ideas. Each instructor on ‘fabrication’ of ideas generated from the of WEAVE WAVE was an amazing experience Ruus, agreed to take on this challenge and to groups produced up to 4 ideas and students previous phase. The first phase was framed for both the students and instructors. It’s the integrate it into the design studio curriculum. casted votes on ideas that they would like by the WEAVE WAVE proposal and the kind of experience that cannot be repeated or This meant three things: make a proposal (for to see pursued as the studio’s competition notion of WARMTH and the second phase taught in regular studio context. In the end, it the competition), (if selected) develop the proposal. Two proposals came out the process: the technique of fabrication and logistics is a public structure, enjoyed by many kids and scheme, and build it. First, we had to make WEAVE WAVE and SKYLIGHT. After hearing on construction. Student groups explored families, according to Paul Jordan, designed sense of these three stages within the studio the announcement that one of our proposal the fabrication technique of Tying, Braiding, and built by the second year environmental sequence that the students will experience WEAVE WAVE has been selected as the Knitting and Knotting, using a variety of tools design students – 100 of them! Would we do as beginning design students; then we had to official entry of the Faculty of Architecture’s including CNC, Laser Cutters, and many forms it again? Absolutely! • find ways to explore ideas with 100 students; contribution to the Warming Hut 2013, the of manual operations. Enjoying the Warming Huts and River Trail, Photo Credit Dan Harper Photography find a way to consolidate the ideas into a entire studio was filled with both excitement The final form of WEAVE WAVE took shape 64 Competitions Competitions 65
Environmental Design Program
By Marcella Eaton | The Environmental Design student trips related to studios. The Chicago Marcella Eaton, Ph.D | Program has had quite an eventful year. We had trip was open to all ED students, so it gave Marcella Eaton, Ph.D, Associate Dean an intake of 100 students into ED2 from an them an opportunity to travel with classmates (Academic), Chair, Environmental Design Program, Associate Professor, Department application group of 270. Scott Barham, who from other Options. The ED Architecture of Landscape Architecture. organizes the pre-term Urban Media Lab for Option students travelled to diverse sites this Pictured Below. these students, had students working together fall including Berlin, Brazil, New York, and Italy in the Exchange District in August. The new depending which studio group they were in. The Environmental Design Program Mohamad T. Araji, Ph.D Instructor ED2 students produced some wonderful ED Landscape + Urbanism students travelled to Jae Sung Chon Instructor work that went on exhibition in January at the various places in Europe including Amsterdam, Alyssa Schwann Assistant Professor GOSA Gallery in University Centre. In May Rotterdam, Utrecht, Duisburg, Paris, London, Kim Wiese Instructor 2012, we were delighted to have ninety-one as well as Minneapolis and Toronto. The ED students successfully complete their four year Interior Environments Option is also planning Environmental Design degree program. We to travel this academic year. wish them great success in their future careers! The university administration has requested We are very pleased that Mohamad Araji that we have an Undergraduate Program and Alyssa Schwann have joined Jae-Sung Review this year. This is a review that other Chon and Kim Wiese as our full-time group undergraduate programs in the University of educators in the Environmental Design have also had. The administration has set up a Program. You can read more about Araji and system so that all undergraduate programs will Shwann’s professional background in the pages be reviewed every ten years. This academic that follow of this year’s Network. I would like review is quite timely in light of all of the to congratulate Jae-Sung Chon and the other recent changes that have been made to the members of the Migrating Landscapes team for Program. It is a great opportunity to be assessed their accomplishments over the past year! It has academically after having graduated three years been brilliant and they are to be complimented of students from the new program structure. for involving the ED students with this event. We look forward to this academic year! • I am also pleased that Kim Wiese has taken the lead role in reviving the Chicago Trip for Environmental Design students—this year’s trip took place in the last week of August. In the ED Options (3rd and 4th year) there are 66 Inside the Faculty Inside the Faculty 67 of landscape architecture, landscape database (currently under development) will conservation, urban design, coastal function as a tool to share both speculative and ecosystems, and environmental design. The concrete possibilities across design disciplines. consultancy work of Atelier Anonymous’ The ultimate objective of this foundation is members includes projects within Canada, to provide targeted expertise and funding Europe, India, and Malaysia. Our practice for “at-risk” urban landscapes (e.g. historic was established with a robust design research public gardens, parks, and urban areas) within agenda: each associate is engaged in unique developing nations, in regions that suffer from projects—often in association with non-profit lack of resources, and in places where the need organizations, while we also collaborate on for advocacy is identified. Initial “case studies” select projects. Some of these projects include: will be continued or are soon to be carried out Dr. Jan Haenraets’ (Daejeon University, South in India, South Korea, Palestine, Brazil, Japan, Korea) study and restoration of the Mughal the US, and Canada. Gardens in India working with the Indian As an individual, my research interests National Trust for Arts & Cultural Heritage lie in the dynamics of urban frameworks. I (Jammu & Kashmir Chapter), Beryl Allen’s view these frameworks as mechanisms for work with the West Vancouver Shoreline exploring how nature within the city can be Preservation Society, a landscape scheme for re-imagined from environmental, cultural, Bocci’s headquarters in Vancouver BC, as well historical, and experiential perspectives. The as several private gardens. aim of my research is to develop new and In collaboration with Dr. Haenraets and reconfigured models of green spatial networks Alyssa Shwann Neal Lamontagne (UCLA), I am currently that respond to urban redevelopment, in the process of establishing a research ecological and environmental dynamics, local foundation, dokban, which will serve as an biotopes, physical conditions, and social and The Faculty of Architecture welcomes Alyssa Shwann, a online international collaborative platform for cultural practices. My research speculates new instructor in the Environmental Design Program. documenting urban landscape case studies, how a re-imagined natural world can be incorporating both student and professional represented, juxtaposed, and integrated in our Biography | After completing my a building, or a branding concept. In 2011, two research from a network of universities. The urban environments. • undergraduate degree in Environmental of RUFproject’s projects were shortlisted for Design and Master of Landscape Architecture the World Architecture Festival Awards. One degree at the University of Manitoba (2005), of these was the Football Training Centre in Instructor I began my professional practice in the UK. Soweto, South Africa, which also won the Instructor Instructor Working for Chris Blandford Associates in Inside Architecture Festival award in the AssistantInstructor Professor InstructorAssistant Professor London, I took part in large-scale urban Culture and Civic category. In this past year Instructor design and infrastructural projects, such as our practice was selected for the 20+Change Crossrail, as well as working on historically exhibition and publication series which listed parks and gardens. In 2004, I joined profiles emerging Canadian Designers. Most the internationally renowned office West 8 recently, RUFproject’s Gulf Islands’ residence (Rotterdam, Netherlands) as a landscape was featured in the April 2012 issue of architect and urban designer. During my tenure Canadian Architect. with West 8 I was focused on the design of Beyond my practice under the shingle of parks, gardens, and public spaces, including RUFproject, I began teaching as an instructor high profile urban design projects for Toronto’s and Adjunct Professor at the University of Central Waterfront and Governors Island, NY. British Columbia School of Architecture and After nearly ten years abroad, I returned to Landscape Architecture (SALA). During my Canada with fellow University of Manitoba time in Vancouver, I held positions within the Faculty of Architecture graduate, Sean wider community as a board member and vice- Pearson. Together we co-founded the award- president with Heritage Vancouver and as the winning multi-disciplinary design office, architect representative and vice-chair of the RUFproject, based out of Vancouver, BC. Gastown Historic Area Planning Committee. I RUFproject focuses its design methodology am a current board member with the Design on the experiential aspect of the spaces Foundation of BC. created. Leaving behind any pre-conceived In 2011, I established Atelier Anonymous, ideas of a project, RUFproject allows the a growing collective of internationally- design to emerge out of a narrative woven established and award-winning designers, with the client—whether it is for a landscape, educators, and researchers in the fields 68 Inside the Faculty Inside the Faculty 69 and civic engagement. By addressing these thresholds regarding environmental factors conferences, workshops, and seminars. Within dimensions jointly, designers can advance and the performance of ecological designs. the broad scope of my academic pursuits, beyond offering technological fixes, and To me, the context of student work should be my research will focus on the previously identify methods for improvement suited to based on the belief that evaluation, feedback, mentioned topics and always seek a synergistic the creation of a coherent built environment. and critique are all vital components of team integration and collaboration.• Looking forward, there are several macro- the progress of design. Progress can only goals that should capture designers’ attention. be achieved when this assessment loop is Architectural projects and urban land uses completed using credible and appropriate require a completely new methodology for methods. Students should be exposed to the physical design of buildings, districts, a number of investigative and analytical institutions, and entire cities. By quantifying techniques, including prediction, simulation, and monetizing the relationship between and measurement. This approach represents how we build things and the energy that the seamless balance between methodological these projects use, we can provide tools for imperatives and the critical concerns. In decision-makers on how they might reduce studio settings, the process of learning paired environmental impacts, prioritize projects, with critical examination ensures the student pursue funding in a strategic manner, and gains a deeper understanding of essential increase the desirability of our contexts. We issues. Education in the architectural design need to analyze the impact of our designs process is further enhanced by students’ self- Mohamad Araji on the production of excess carbon dioxide. discovery, and positioning of their work within Analysis should include: the built environment; the wider context. The Faculty of Architecture welcomes Mohamad Araji, a energy, water, and waste systems; transit and Research and system development in the new instructor in the Environmental Design Program. connectivity plans; smart infrastructures; and environmental design disciplines should aim community engagement programs. Further to to implement changes to building practices Biography | It is with much enthusiasm and relevance to my appointment here including this is the analysis of existing buildings: carbon with global impact in three priority areas: lucidity that I join the Environmental Design the Chicago DeCarbonization Plan, the dioxide emissions and energy usage through energy consumption, sustainable resource Program. My work is continuously committed unprecedented 103% surplus-energy Masdar inspection of their age, use, condition, types, management, and quality access to essential to achieving inventive design solutions and Headquarters in the UAE, and the world’s next and integrated systems. Current building stock resources (such as fresh air, clean water, and encouraging a paradigm of high performance tallest skyscraper, Kingdom Tower, currently should then be transformed to become more natural daylight). Overall, this research has the buildings. It is essential that research and under construction in Saudi Arabia. Numerous efficient. The Chicago DeCarbonization Plan potential to tap a wide array of funding sources education in architecture advances practice of these and other landmark developments is a perfect precedent for this venture. in the federal, provincial, and private sectors and leads novelty. seek the design of high-performance, energy- The basis of my academic teaching and as well as other public funding mechanisms My professional and academic education was efficient, sustainable architecture producing scholarly research involves architectural and to international funding options. received in Lebanon and the United States, optimal ecological solutions. design as it relates to environmental building Other core opportunities could be realized with a Bachelor of Architectural Engineering Part of my research was earlier fulfilled at technologies, fundamentals of green through initiating a Centre of Excellence degree from Beirut Arab University, a Master the Smart Energy Design Assistance Center strategies, integrated design process, high with a special focus on sustainable design of Architecture from the University of (SEDAC) and the Building Research Council performance envelopes, effects of passive and ecological integration. Core services Arizona, and a PhD in Architecture from the (BRC) at the University of Illinois at Urbana- and active systems on human comfort, and and affiliations of this centre could include University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Champaign. I have taught at the University of sustainable materials specification. At the corporate partnership, consultancy work, I am a licensed architect in the Middle East, Illinois and Abu Dhabi University in the UAE University of Manitoba, I envision a supportive training programs, and platforms that embrace a Leadership in Energy and Environmental as an Assistant Professor of Architecture, environment that recognizes my focus on an Design (LEED) accredited professional, a and also lectured at several other American inclusive “urban ecosystem” approach. In this member of the USGBC, and currently in the universities. I regularly publish papers in system, all aspects of resource consumption process of becoming a licensed architect in leading international refereed journals and and carbon dioxide emissions are considered North America. My professional affiliations conferences, including LEUKOS, LR&T, ASR, in order to maintain a closed loop system. This include: the Journal of International Building ASME, and JMAD. consideration is an integral part of establishing Performance Simulation Association, the Journal The 21st century is experiencing several a clear framework to address and measure the of Indoor and Built Environment, the Council on changes in environmental technologies sustainability of a proposed development Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, the Order of coupled with economic challenges that throughout its life cycle. Engineers and Architects, and the Arab American are significantly changing the practice of Academically, it is my interest to work Association of Engineers and Architects. architecture. In order to generate viable with students pursuing research and design Over the last ten years, I have been working sustainable projects, design professionals projects that emphasize applied topics in in practice and education in the United States, must embrace interdisciplinary work and seek sustainability, energy, and environment. Canada, and the Middle East. My practice- knowledge beyond aesthetics and technology. After their time here, students should be based portfolio at Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill This knowledge must expand to social justice, able to demonstrate understanding of the Architecture LLP involves several projects of environmental stewardship, cultural diversity, concepts of human comfort and sensorial Above: Masdar Headquarters, Abu Dhabi UAE (courtesy of AS+GG Architecture). 70 Inside the Faculty Inside the Faculty 71 Dwelling: The Bow Tie House By Evan Schellenberg | The Bow Tie house is a However, architecture can be manipulated to Environmental Design Year 2 communal oriented dwelling that attempts to make dwelling conditions feel larger than they provoke a sustainable lifestyle with a renewed actually are. The Bow Tie house achieves this Evan Schellenberg way of thinking. Sustainable living covers a by the centre staircase and community zone, large spectrum of economic, political, and and the crossing over of dwellings. These environmental issues and cannot be solved spaces make the house feel large and spacious. solely by new technologies and materials. The house can then conform to the Our North American culture has become changing demographic of the area. The exceedingly individualized which has lead to house consists of two different living facilities a consumer based economy. Consumerism is that can integrate together to become one one of the leading issues in regards of waste, depending on the life of the occupants. In the material depletion, and pollution. The Bow Tie bedrooms, the costume closet systems act as house is architecture that allows people to live, room dividers that expand and detract their play, and work together towards a sustainable special conditions. This allows the occupants future. By living in community people can to evolve, adjust and adapt to their context. immediately begin to decrease the amount The design of the house has an unfinished of energy, materials, and products consumed basement allowing adaptation and growth. per person. The basement could then be divided between Living in small compressed spaces can be the occupants evenly or unevenly in reaction done and is done in many countries around to context. Also the entire house can evolve the world. It is mostly in North America that and expand into a large single dwelling. • we feel the need for unnecessarily large homes.
72 Inside the Faculty Inside the Faculty 73 Department of Architecture
By Terri Fuglem | The 2011-12 Academic addition of a dwelling and studio to the CAST Terri Fuglem | year in the Department of Architecture building that developed processes of building Terri Fuglem, Acting Head of the Department of Architecture , Associate Professor. displayed exuberance in both student work construction, and a project in the Clearwater Pictured Below. and professorial activity. Engaging subjects region investigated community involvement that reflect the professors’ diverse research through the re-purposing of old industrial Department of Architecture interests, the studios attempted to bridge the sites. Finally, a “donkey” studio sought to Eduardo Aquino Associate Professor gap between the ephemeral and the material transform difficult and undesirable sites of Lancelot Coar Assistant Professor realms, as all exemplary architecture does. Winnipeg into spaces of delight. This year’s Herbert Enns Professor Students participated in a range of projects External Examiners for Design Thesis were Dr. Eduard Epp Associate Professor Frank Fantauzzi Associate Professor from designing a house for Winnipeg in Federica Goffi, of Carleton University, and the Ralph Glor Sessional Instructor & the Foundation Option Year (ED3) to self- Associate Director of its Graduate Professional FGS Recommended Member initiated projects for Iceland (one of the many Program and Alfred Zollinger, from the School Patrick Harrop Associate Professor Vertical Studios that encompass Masters of Constructed Environments at Parsons (The Colin Herperger Sessional Instructor & and Undergraduate levels). Other vertical New School for Design) in New York City, and FGS Recommended Member Lisa Landrum, Ph.D Assistant Professor studios included an investigation of light and co-principal, with Sandra Wheeler, of a firm Ian Macdonald Professor Emeritus sound for projects in Berlin, architectural and called Matter Practice. Neil Minuk Instructor & urban investigations in the city of Santos in University of Manitoba students again won FGS Recommended Member Brazil, the investigation of human rights in the national acclaim this past year; John Duerksen Sasa Radulovic Sessional Instructor & conception and design of social and cultural merited the national Best Thesis prize from FGS Recommended Member Karen Shanski Sessional Instructor & institutions in Winnipeg, as well as the analysis Canadian Architect, and recent graduates, FGS Recommended Member and remediation of urban voids in Winnipeg’s Chad Connery, Travis Cooke, Chris Gilmour, Ralph Stern Professor and Dean Exchange District led by the award-winning Kory Kaspersion, Jason Kun, Anca Matyiku Natalija Subotincic Professor office of 5468796 Architecture Inc. Another and Andre Silva were finalists selected for Mark West Professor studio in the Exchange District entailed representation in the Migrating Landscapes deep investigation into the relationship of exhibition at the Venice Bienniale. Professors consciousness and architecture; yet another in the Department also produced distinguished impelled students to devise ways to calibrate creative and academic work with national the immeasurable aspects of architecture and international publications, exhibitions, in designs near the Queensboro Bridge in competitions, award-winning architecture, New York City. Other studios explored the and conferences too numerous to list here.• material sides of architecture, such as the 74 Inside the Faculty Inside the Faculty 75 Fishermen Clubhouse By Brent Bell | The Fishermen Clubhouse The intent of this project is to preserve Reykjavik, Iceland project contrasts and questions the proposed the processes and lifestyle of the fishing Architecture Graduate Studies redevelopment plan for Reykjavik’s Old industry within the Old Harbour and provide Harbour. Due to the changes at the Old purposeful and familiar work for the elders of Brent Bell Harbour, and the assumed limited use of this industry. Three main programs occupy the existing dock and slipway, there is an the space within the structure: a fishermen opportunity to use the available infrastructure clubhouse, a fish processing area, and a public of the existing structures as a foundation for market. The movement of the structure along a new piece of architecture. The architecture the slipway responds to the use of these three is intended to remedy the changes that are programs. The exterior shell can detach from happening at the harbour and to achieve the main building to become a barge that cultural sustainability. The architecture is to accepts the delivery of fresh fish from small become something that mediates between fishing vessels and returns the daily catch the available infrastructure and the fishermen to the permanent structure where they are to retain the culture of the Old Harbour. The processed. The structure within the slip also harbour should not become a museum of the provides transportation to the market located past, but rather a thriving and interactive hub on the existing dock. Both the structure and where culture is still present and the fishing the slipway are to be a make-work project for industry becomes a vibrant story that remains the fishermen. It is to be a place where the within this site. This should become a place elderly of the industry can congregate and where the existing infrastructure develops new become a part of an endless work cycle. • life through adaptive reuse.
Above: John A. Russell Building -Architecture Library. 76 Inside the Faculty Inside the Faculty 77 Department of City Planning
By Richard Milgrom | Faculty in the Gerry Couture, engaged with communities in Richard Milgrom, Ph.D | Department of City Planning began the 2011- the Manitoba Capital Region, conducting Richard Milgrom, Ph.D, Head of the Department of City Planning, Associate 12 academic year with a retreat to discuss the background studies intended to help establish Professor. future of the Department. In anticipation of a collaborative planning process between Pictured Below. coming retirements and changes that have municipalities. Dr. Blake led an undergraduate Department of City Planning and continue to take place in the Faculty of studio in Landscape+Urbanism that examined William Ashton Adjunct Professor Architecture, we discussed possible directions how design might celebrate the Winnipeg Sheri Blake, Ph.D Professor and how new hires may help address our Strike of 1919—a key moment in the city’s social Rae Bridgman. Ph.D Professor concerns. The conclusion was to focus on history. My studios addressed emerging issues Gerald H. Couture Adjunct Professor the development of three areas of interest: in urban design, examining how communities Jino Distasio Adjunct Professor Michael Dudley Adjunct Professor community engagement and neighbourhood can become more age-friendly, and how the Molly Johnson Adjunct Professor planning, indigenous planning and design, and city’s downtown can accommodate a broad Christopher Leo Adjunct Professor urban design. These areas of interest all take range of residents. David Linton Adjunct Professor advantage of the Department’s location within The end of the year brought news that both Shauna MacKinnon FGS Recommended the Faculty of Architecture, its connections Dr. Skelton and Dr. Blake would be retiring. Member Linda McFadyen Adjunct Professor with other units at the University, and its The Department wishes them well and thanks James Platt Adjunct Professor relationships within the Province of Manitoba. them for their years of valuable contributions Basil Rotoff Senior Scholar The discussions of all three were framed by to research, teaching, and public debate. • Dr. Ian Skelton Professor overarching concerns for social justice and Jean Trottier Cross-Appointment (LA) for environmental sustainability, by the desire David van Vliet, Ph.D Associate Professor Ian Wight, Ph.D Associate Professor to contribute to the improvement of local
environments within Manitoba, and how we might contribute to and learn from national and international collaborations. The Department’s endeavours during the year, especially in studios, reflected the desires expressed at the retreat. Dr. Skelton continued to develop the Indigenous Planning and Design Network, working with four First Nations around the province in a studio. Dr. Wight, in collaboration with Adjunct Professor 78 Inside the Faculty Inside the Faculty 79 Age-Friendly Morden This report summarizes the findings of between the communities and provide service City Planning Graduate Studies the University of Manitoba City Planning to the hospital. As part of the transit plan, a Age-Friendly Study for Morden. In the section of 8th Street could be redeveloped into Alex Henderson, fall of 2011, group members conducted a transit hub and pedestrian-friendly public Adam Prokopanko, research and held a consultation with town plaza including a patio and bandstand. Andrea Spakowski, Liam Speirs officials and local residents. Morden’s age- Seniors in Morden want affordable housing friendly characteristics were examined that allows them to maintain an engaged in four topic areas: Outdoor Spaces & and active lifestyle and connections with Buildings, Transportation, Housing, and friends and family. Emphasizing mixed–use Social Participation. Strengths and areas for development would enhance walkability, improvement were identified in each of these building on the existing strengths of community facets of the community. Finally, proposals resources and networks and a wealth of were prepared in order to further improve the heritage resources. Infill development, age-friendliness of the town. secondary suites, and visitable housing are all A key asset of Morden is its historic and strategies that will contribute to the ability to walkable downtown area with seniors’ housing age in place within the community. At Right: Birds eye view of proposed South-East in close proximity to amenities. Sidewalks Morden provides many opportunities Development facing south Below: A small park with bench and improved should be extended into newer residential for social participation. The 55+ Activity walking path (Credit: Google Street View with and commercial developments where they are Centre is a key gathering place for older overlay) currently lacking. People young and old would adults from the town and region. Initiatives benefit from having more crosswalks on busy such as the Snow Angels of Morden allow Thornhill Street. There are currently some year-round participation in the community. vacant and under-utilized lots downtown that Improvements to physical infrastructure could be used for additional seniors housing. and focusing new retail development to the It is easy to drive around Morden and parking southeast of downtown would make it easier is free and plentiful. The existing handi-van for all members of the community to have service is limited, particularly on evenings and easy walking access to the services they need. weekends. Negotiations are ongoing between Anchoring this development with attractions Morden and Winkler, the neighbouring town, would create points of interest for residents to establish a joint transit service that will travel and visitors alike. •
80 Inside the Faculty Inside the Faculty 81 Suburbanisms Globally and Locally
By Richard Milgrom | Starting in 2010, the Capital Region—Winnipeg and its surrounding City Institute at York University in Toronto municipalities. During the fall of 2011, Global Suburbanism’s was awarded a Major Collaborative Research Pressures are mounting to change principle investigators, Dr. Roger Keil and Dr. Initiative (MCRI) from the Social Sciences development practices and the relationship Ute Lehrer, used Winnipeg as a case study site and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Winnipeg suburbs with the downtown core. for students at York University. They visited to examine global trends in urbanization, The inefficiencies of existing development the city in October for a week during which particularly issues of governance and patterns have resulted in a multi-billion dollar Dr. Milgrom organized a day-long tour of the regulation of suburb development. The work infrastructure deficit—the amount needed city and its issue areas. Students were also involves about fifty researchers and almost to repair what we already have—while the given the opportunity to meet with key actors twenty partner organizations around the world, increasingly suburban population is in need of in the governance of the City and the Capital and uses Canadian cities as a foundation new roads, sewers, and schools. Manitoba, like Region. Dr. Milgrom and Dr. Christopher Leo, for comparison. all other provinces, has an aging population. from the University of Winnipeg, provided an Dr. Richard Milgrom is a researcher on The wishes of retiring baby-boomers to introductory lecture highlighting the areas of the project and he is expanding the analysis maintain active lifestyles may change the types Sprawling, abstract mosaics when viewed from above concern that the region is facing. of Winnipeg’s development patterns— of living environments desired; this shift may — expanding suburban landscapes lead to social and Dr. Keil also gave a lecture as part of the particularly the social impacts of sprawl support the City of Winnipeg’s stated goal of infrastructural issues. Faculty’s Cultural Events Lecture Series within what has, until recently, been a slow- providing more “complete communities” that entitled “A World of Suburbs? Finding the growth environment. As Winnipeg enters a offer the amenities of everyday life within Urban Century in the Periphery.” • new period of anticipated population growth, walking distance of people’s homes. new expectations are influencing policies that While the MCRI project supports faculty govern city development in the Manitoba research, it also has pedagogical objectives. 82 Inside the Faculty Inside the Faculty 83 The Indigenous Design & Planning Network
Dean Witty managed to secure university reported in Network 2011, became known as Canada has provided funding to AMC for support for an undergraduate degree in the Indigenous Planning Studio. meetings promoting housing and planning on Aboriginal Design and Planning, though the The Studio brought the Faculty into a regional basis, which has proved valuable for required resources have not yet materialized. partnership with the Assembly of Manitoba learning among the Network participants. Ian Skelton formed an international Chiefs (AMC), through the shared goal During the summer of 2012, City Planning consortium—the Indigenous Planning of promoting First Nations planning. City student Liam Spiers worked with AMC to Exchange (IPEX)—that was funded from Planning student Jonathan Hildrebrand create social networking tools that will enable 2007 to 2011 by Human Resources and Social worked at the AMC office over the summer, discussion on design and planning in an Development Canada and the corresponding building interest among communities for unprecedented way. Network participants agencies in Mexico and the USA. Through participating in the Studio. In 2011, projects seek to share information and build knowledge IPEX, students studied abroad for a term took place in Fisher River as well as Garden around characteristically Indigenous theory and the project culminated in a major Hill, Sapotaweyak, and Swan Lake, and reports and practice. They begin, as IPEX partner Ted international event on Indigenous planning: are posted, with community permission, Jojola states, with distinctive world-views of a two-week field school and conference on the Department website as well as on: Indigenous peoples and their appreciation of students, professionals, academics, and firstnationshousinginitiative.ca. A brief report for long-term connections between the land community members in Chiapas, written up is published in Warehouse 21. The studio has and the community. This involves, as Libby in Warehouse 20. received attention nationally and abroad, Porter and others argue, an “unlearning” of By Ian Skelton | The Faculty of Architecture Ojibway First Nation, identifying key themes Another key moment was the fruitful and a student from Universidade Federal da the assumptions built into European models is at the centre of an exciting new initiative: for future planning work. Also in this period opportunity in 2010 to work intensively with Paraíba, Brazil, won an Emerging Leaders in the so that new approaches can emerge. the Indigenous Design and Planning Network. students worked with urban Aboriginal groups a local community. Through recent graduate Americas Program award to participate. Design and planning in Indigenous It has emerged gradually as a result of in studios led by City Planning graduate and Sarah Cooper, Ian Skelton connected with A distinctive method of work is emerging, communities around the world face many several years of engagement with Indigenous former Winnipeg Planning Commissioner, Fisher River Cree Nation and discussed organized around the Department of City challenges, and as contemporary events communities, supporting self-reliance and Tom Yauk and by Ian Skelton, creating a possible projects with the Chief and Council Planning, AMC, First Nations communities, make clear, Canada is no exception. We are capacity building in the communities and proposal for an Aboriginal Planning Program over the summer. Six groups of students, and others, constituting the Indigenous Design honoured to play a part in the unfolding of providing memorable learning opportunities to be offered in the Faculty. Over the period including two visiting from the USA and and Planning Network. Travel and other costs theory and practice and are working to ensure for students. Perhaps most auspiciously, the 2000-2003 students worked for the summer one from Mexico, negotiated specific work for studio projects have been covered with that the Indigenous Design and Planning work has assisted in the conceptualization as Community Planning Advisors in Nunavut, plans with community members early in the the generous support of Canada Mortgage Network, with its components of the studio, of contemporary design and planning under contributing to ongoing initiatives in Baker autumn and undertook collaborative projects and Housing Corporation (CMHC) and we planning coordinators, regional meetings, Indigenous leadership, contrasting with the Lake, Coral Harbour, Rankin Inlet, Repulse Bay, focused on climate change adaptation, hope this will continue as it enables frequent and social media interactions, will support European derived theory and practice that and Whale Cove—all hamlets in the Kivalliq housing planning, National Cree Gathering site and rich communication between the student communities in meeting these challenges.• predominate globally. This report shows region. During his term of office, former Dean planning, a new cemetery, street naming and groups and the communities with which they how the Network emerged and outlines how Dave Witty and others coordinated City numbering, and watershed management. Some are engaged. CMHC funding also enables it works. Planning studios in a number of First Nations, of the projects have seen implementation and First Nations participating in the Studio and Early key moments in the articulation of as well as inter-departmental cross-cultural others are ongoing, including one to create an the Department to hire planning coordinators, this area of work in the Faculty occurred in studios with First Nations in the summer. addressing system, for which City Planning so community members and students learn the latter 1990s when consultant George Paul Efforts in Indigenous design and planning student Kyle McStravick was hired at the and work together beyond the studio term. guided students in a studio with Sandy Bay were soon consolidated in broader initiatives. end of the school year. The course, briefly Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development 84 Inside the Faculty Inside the Faculty 85 Department of Interior Design
By Mary Anne Beecher | The 2011-2012 by Dianne Smith, Marina Lommerse, and Mary Anne Beecher, Ph.D | academic year hosted several landmark Priya Metcalfe. This book was published by Mary Anne Beecher, Ph.D, Associate Dean achievements for the Department of Interior the Pencil and Paper Press in Perth, Australia. (Research), Head of the the Department of Interior Design, Associate Professor. Design. The most significant accomplishment Shauna Mallory-Hill, along with co-editors Pictured Below. has been the successful completion of the Christopher Watson and Wolfgang Preiser, Council for Interior Design Accreditation edited a collection of essays that examine (CIDA) review. In late October a three- the next generation of building performance Department of Landscape Architecture person team that visited the school was and evaluation. The book, entitled Enhancing Kelley Beaverford Associate Professor Lynn Chalmers Associate Professor treated to three days of intensive study of a Building Performance, is published by Wiley- Dr. Susan Close Associate Professor comprehensive representation of students’ Blackwell. Susan Close published the essay Michael Cox Dean Emeritus work displayed in the Architecture 2 Building. “Framing Place: Photography and Design Joan Harland Professor Emeritus The team expressed satisfaction with the Culture in Canada” in an edited collection Katherine Isaac Sessional Instructor & Masters of Interior Design (MID) program entitled Eighty-Eight: Mieke Bal PhDs 1983- FGS Recommended Member in their consideration of every one of the 2011, published by the Amsterdam School for Cynthia Karpan, Ph.D Associate Professor accreditation standards. A great deal of Cultural Analysis Press. Tijen Roshko’s article Shauna Mallory-Hill, Ph.D Assistant Professor credit for the success of our review goes to “The Floating Dwellings of Chong Kneas, Nancy Maruca Associate Professor the efforts of our teaching staff and to our Cambodia” appeared in the Fall 2011 issue of Tijen Roshko Associate Professor excellent students. the journal Landscape and Buildings from the Deb Scott FGS Recommended Member Also significant is the fact that we had University of Minnesota Press. • a record number of graduates from the Department of Interior Design in the past year. Fourteen students received their Master of Interior Design in the October 2011 and the May 2012 convocation ceremonies. Faculty members in the Department of Interior Design have been busy too, contributing to many important design publications this past year. Kelley Beaverford contributed “More than bricks and mortar” to Life from the Inside: Perspectives on Social Sustainability and Interior Architecture, edited 86 Inside the Faculty Inside the Faculty 87 MAIN FORM: Junction Interior Design Option ED
Haojing Zhang & Jessyca Yajiao Fan
By Haojing Zhang & Jessyca Yajiao Fan | The it was enough so we could both communicate Product Catalogue Collection (PCC) project our ideas without a language barrier. The was the final studio project during our last ability to communicate ideas with ease made undergraduate year. The entire studio worked possible for both of us to become actively as a team with a real client and a limited budget involved in the design. We were a great balance to raise awareness of the services PCC has to to each other; Haojing’s calm and subtle design offer. As part of the final phase, the studio was approach worked well with Jessyca’s loud and divided into smaller teams to focus on specific hectic design methods. We developed a joint areas of design. We were assigned to design desire to make the main display successful and construct the main display. rather than only designing to please the client Working with a real client was intimidating or fulfilling the brief. because there is a responsibility to satisfy Our goal was to design a modular display the client’s needs. Our client, PCC’s librarian unit that could be configured to offer versatile Marianne, was actively involved throughout display space to suit the changing needs of the entire process. She offered insight PCC. The design of the display focuses on about the mechanics of PCC but remained individual units acting as a junction, which ambiguous regarding the specifics of the relies on the overall configuration to support design she wanted for the PCC. One of the itself. By redefining “the unit,” the final design challenges was learning how to interpret allows for more variety in the arrangement and transform all the information (or lack of of display surfaces, offers greater visual information) provided into a physical form. interest, and embodies a subtle relationship As young designers, we felt the obligation to to the new branding logo. We did not expect incorporate all the client’s desires. Learning modular design to be as difficult as it was. to separate the needs from the wants of the The changeability of the display was the most client was a big step to helping us pinpoint the problematic challenge of the design process. key aspects of the design. Utilizing the laser cutter as the primary tool By coincidence or by the amazing planning of fabrication, we had the ability to quickly skills of our studio instructor, Deb Scott, a test variations, which allowed the design to Chinese international student was paired progress rapidly. The success of the design with a Chinese-Canadian student. Although is the interdependence of each unit to the Jessyca only speaks very rudimentary Chinese, integrity of the entire structure. •
88 Inside the Faculty Inside the Faculty 89 Department of Landscape Architecture
By Alan Tate | Much of the 2011-12 academic program and to maintain active exchange Alan Tate, Ph.D | year was dedicated to continuing the programs with peer establishments. Last year, Alan Tate, Ph.D, Head of the Department of implementation of program changes for the re- for instance, we hosted four students from Landscape Architecture, Professor. Pictured Below. structured Master of Landscape Architecture the landscape architecture programs at the program. These changes included articulation Swedish Agricultural University in the MLA Department of Landscape Architecture of studio and elective requirements for MLA program and supported Dean Ralph Stern in Brenda Brown Assistant Professor Marcella Eaton, Ph.D Associate Dean (Academic) students in order to ensure their consistent the establishment of a university-to- university Chair, Environmental Design progression through the program, and exchange agreement—which will enable Program, Associate Professor clarification of the curriculum for students exchanges for students in the Faculty—with Ted McLachlan Professor entering the program in each of three distinct the Technical University in Munich (TUM), Richard Perron, Ph.D Professor cohorts: non-design first degree; design Germany. Alex Rattray Professor Emeritus Dietmar Straub Assistant Professor but non-Environmental Design first degree; Meanwhile, our own graduates from the Charlie Thomsen Professor Emeritus Environmental Design first degree. TUM, Dietmar Straub and Anna Thurmayr, Anna Thurmayr Assistant Professor By contrast, the Landscape + Urbanism won awards in the Canadian Society of Jean Trottier Assistant Professor option for the third and fourth years of the Landscape Architects awards program for Karen Associate Professor Environmental Design (B.E.D.) program is 2012, a National Merit for Design for the Wilson Baptist, Ph.D now relatively well established. Both the L+U Chenshan Botanic Garden in Shanghai and option—beginning with the European Field a Regional Merit for New Directions for an Studies visit each September—and the MLA Instant Garden in Winnipeg. Equally, MLA program have a rich schedule of field study and student Jason Hare was one of the winners in overseas study opportunities. In addition to the competition to participate in the Canadian many studios based in Winnipeg, last year the entry for the Venice Architecture Biennale MLA second year studio attended the Second 2012. And the competition-winning design Wave of Modernism conference in New York; by Dutch landscape consultants West 8, with that group and most of the final L+U group MLA alumnus Alyssa Schwann a prominent had their studio based in Toronto. The first member of the team, for Jubilee Gardens in MLA studio was based in Victoria, British London, England was opened ahead of the Columbia and the second MLA studio was British Royal Jubilee and Olympic Games. based in Thompson, Manitoba and Medicine This year we look forward to further Hat, Alberta. consolidation of the MLA program: to the These field study opportunities are allied to centenary of architecture instruction at the a continuing commitment to admit students University of Manitoba, and to the continued from a range of overseas countries to the MLA success of our students and alumni. •
90 Inside the Faculty Inside the Faculty 91 Urban fragmentation in Winnipeg By Yoshihiro Yabe | Winnipeg’s urban pollution, habitat degradation, placelessness, structure is fragmented, particularly due to and lack of urban ecological education. The Landscape Architecture the railway and vehicule-oriented growth main project site, Osborne Junction, is the Graduate Studies which has engendered segmented land use, result of widespread fragmentation created by Yoshihiro Yabe dismantled walkable networks, and invoked a multiple disturbances; the large concrete and disconnect between culture and nature as well asphalt plot of roadside retail development as within nature itself. Prior to the Industrial and its associated parking areas, the railway Revolution, the relationship between culture tracks, and the new rapid transit way serve and nature was not parallel: culture was to barricade the connection to the Red River. embedded within nature. However, urban However, since the Junction is a primary hub landscape design, which we unconsciously see, for public transportation, and the addition of touch, smell, hear, experience, and remember the new rapid transit station will undoubtedly on an everyday basis, triggers our current intensify the congestion of this site, it should fragmented thinking that daily life is displaced be considered as a primary node where urban from the complex web of interrelationships pedestrian culture meets suburban culture. characteristic of ecosystems. This condition Creating a smooth connection between ultimately stems from our own fragmented Osborne Junction and the river path will also approach to problem solving, the production activate a large pedestrian-oriented urban of pragmatic solutions which continually evoke recreation network within the city centre. further fragmentation. From this perspective, I propose a series of In order to resolve this critical issue, this designed landforms consisting of a mixed-used practicum isolates and examines a problematic community with a large park, a proposal based site while deconstructing fragmentation into on the recollection of primitive landscape to specific causes, namely: un-walkable design, offer the opportunity for ecological education within everyday life. •
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92 Inside the Faculty Inside the Faculty 93 Fabrication Lab
The Technology Investment Fee Committee (TIFC) has invested $250,000 in new equipment and renovations in the past year in order to outfit a Fabrication Lab for the Faculty of Architecture. The new Computer Numerated Cutter (CNC) is shown above.
By Jason Hare Co-Chair TIFC | The Universal Industries. These three machines will Fabrication Lab is an interdisciplinary design- help alleviate the pressure seen by the volume research laboratory, which is intended to of student work that has been cut by our large bridge the gap between computational drawing 4x4 Beam laser cutter in the past few years. It and construction in students’ education, is also intended to facilitate hands-on student provide research tools for faculty members, access to the machines, ultimately bridging and encourage collaboration between the the gap between computational drawing Faculty and external partners. and physical construction of a given form at Over the past year, the Technology multiple scales. Investment Fee Committee, comprised of Along with obtaining these highly precise students from every department within the machines, the lab has also purchased nine Faculty of Architecture, committed a quarter PCs and software compatible with all of million dollars to begin acquiring new digital the new machinery. This fully networked fabrication equipment and to renovate environment allows for ease of work flow for the “Jury Room” space into a new digital students while designing or fabricating specific fabrication laboratory on the 100-level of the components or models. John A. Russell Building. The Lab’s main focus is towards integrating This past spring the lab received its first fabrication-aided design with the process of three-axis milling machine from AXYZ, a making. This equipment will provide the ability Canadian company. This industrial proto to shift between the digital and the physical typing mill has the ability to cut many different world of drawing, construction, and crafting. materials, from paper to non-ferrous metal. Understanding and working with this new At the end of July, the lab also received technology is critical to design training and three new 60w expandable laser cutters from practice as a whole. • 94 Inside the Faculty Inside the Faculty 95 Building the Canadian Museum Shifting Ground Blanketed for Human Rights Smith Carter & Antoine Predock Architect Kira Appelhans Mary Anne Beecher
September 15 to October 11 October 14 to November 11 November 29 to January 13 A gallery exhibition following the joint lecture Kira Appelhans is a landscape architect who Works by Mary Anne Beecher investigate the by the Architect of Record and Design fell in love with printmaking while studying merging of contemporary cultural issues with Architect: Grant Van Iderstine, Principal, for a Master of Landscape Architecture at the tradition of creating custom furniture Smith Carter Architects and Engineers Graham the University of Pennsylvania. Her current as a means of evoking new meanings from Hogan, AIA, Design Architect, Antoine work, which she began with a fellowship at the old forms or historical models. New work Predock Architect. MacDowell colony, explores natural processes reinterprets what were once the most massive at the scale of the landscape and copper plate. objects in middle-class households—beds and sideboards—using materials and means Arch 2 of production that accommodate today’s demands for mobility and compactness. Gallery
Envirographic Architecture Group Costumes: Retrospective Mark Smout & Laura Allen Ted & Lisa Landrum
January 23 to March 2 March 12 to May 7
Mark Smout and Laura Allen are Senior The Landrums have always complemented Lecturers at the Bartlett School of their architectural work with performative Architecture. Their work takes two routes, practices, including the collaborative design, architectural competitions, where the fabrication, and enactment of group costumes particular rigour of the competition brief, in public events. Each of these monstrosities— site, and program provide the basis for new giant Tongues, Intestines, Brains, Armpits, investigations, and conceptual design projects Ear-Wings and Eye-Mouths—grew to elicit which test out the agenda and methodology a larger-than-life understanding of civic of the design research practice. We focus situations and festivities, while offering an on the dynamic relationship between the animate, enigmatic, and satirical image of the natural and the man-made and how this can city’s social body. be revealed to enhance the experience of the architectural landscape.
Mark Smout & Laura Allen’s Envirographic Architecture (Print from the exhibit). 96 Events Events 97 Professor of Architecture New Hotel Design: Manufacturing Material Effects The Stories Behind the Architecture Food for Thought Dalhousie University Behind the Chic & the Pop Branko Kolareric The Architecture & Richard Kroeker Michel Aubé Ethics of David Salmela Cultural January 31, 2012 Thomas Fisher Lectures that happen over the lunch hour, so September 19, 2011 November 18, 2011 you can feed your knowledge and your body Kolareric examined an emerging trajectory March 20, 2012 at the same time. Richard Kroeker has a design practice in Architect Michel Aubé has been a partner in contemporary architecture enabled by the Thomas Fisher, Dean of the College of Design Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. His work focuses in Montreal-based LEMAYMICHAUD for new found capacity to digitally design and Later that Night at the Drive in Events on issues related to cultural continuity and nearly 12 years. He has been in charge of at the University of Minnesota has written two manufacture highly crafted material effects, [projection and sound field] environmental response. He has done work the hotel projects for Le Groupe Germain, books on architectural ethics and two books such as pattern, texture, relief, or varied Eduardo Aquino & Karen Shanski with indigenous communities whose culture which is proposing to build a new ALT hotel material properties. He surveyed practices on the work of Duluth architect David Salmela. and physical environment are under threat in Winnipeg with Longboat Development whose approach to form and pattern vary His lecture captured the stories behind the September 22, 2011 from external forces. He is interested in the Corporation. It will develop a 200,000 sq. ft., from “ornamented minimalism” to “expressive design and construction of Salmela’s work strategies adopted by different cultures with 20-storey mixed-use tower that will be home exuberance”; it also described the different and what they have to say about how to think close links to the natural world as an important to ALT Hotel and Winnipeg’s Stantec Office. digital techniques of material production ethically about architecture. From Streets to Spaces precedent for the contemporary practice Possessing an impressive mastery of design, aimed at particular surface effects. Chris Veres of architecture, and an important source of Aubé specializes in theatre and concert hall information about who we are and where architecture. Sensitive to the needs of the October 20, 2011 we are. operators and show creators, he creates Origins Richard Kroeker is an architect registered outstanding spaces while maintaining through Large or Small: Community and Public in the UK, a graduate of the University of analysis and development, the practical and Jerry van Eyck Realm Manitoba Environmental Studies program, and functional aspects of the project. His expertise Michael Moxam a member of the Architectural Association and reputation has led him to work on major March 8, 2012 in London. entertainment projects worldwide. Having worked for many years on prestigious January 26, 2012 projects on a world-wide scale, landscape architect Jerry van Eyck (ex-West 8, now !melk, The Forgotten Scale Of Architecture A World of Suburbs? Finding the Urban Fractured Atlas/Virtual Architecture based in New York) presented examples of Clayton Salked Century in the Periphery Adrian Blackwell his work against a backdrop of a critical view Roger Keil towards the history of his country of origin: November 30, 2011 February 16, 2012 October 11, 2011 the Netherlands. Trained as a landscape architect and This talk posited architectural practice as Started But Never Finished industrial designer, Van Eyck’s hybrid education The 21st century has been heralded as an a critique of Neoliberal political economy. Thomas Hiller has given him an unusual breadth and depth of urban century. Indeed, urbanization is now the In the first half, Fractured Atlas, Blackwell skills. In each commission he seeks to balance most tangible shared experience of humanity. described the uneven topologies of neoliberal February 29, 2012 both the macro-scale—how open and public Behind the story of the “urban revolution” urbanism, through three case studies: the cities space fit into the larger context of a city’s fabric lies an important and perhaps astonishing of Detroit and Shenzhen, and public housing and the urban experience—with the micro— making !melk truth: most urban dwellers now live on the in the Great Lakes region. In the second half, materiality, ornamentation, and pattern, Manda Yakiwchuck periphery. From the squatter settlements Virtual Architecture, he showed a sequence of expressed through custom furniture, lighting, of the Global South to the wealthy gated projects that intervened in this situation, and paving, and other details giving each project its March 9, 2012 communities of North America, from the whose political potential lies in their uncertain singular identity. In February 2010, Jerry van tower block peripheries of Europe or Canada actualizations. Eyck joined forces with Urban Designer Evan to the newly sprawling cities of Asia, a common Adrian Blackwell is an artist and urban Making Roseto found !melk. theme emerges. Where cities grow, they designer whose work focuses on the DoUC Van Eyck graduated cum laude from the grow at the margins. Our world has become relationship between physical spaces and Eindhoven Design Academy in 1992 and suburban. Our everyday lives are shaped by the political economy. His work has been March 13, 2012 founded IRONYX, an Office/Laboratory/ global suburbanism. exhibited at artist-run centres and public Workshop for Architectural Design that same Roger Keil (D.Phil, Frankfurt) is the Director institutions across Canada and in international year. Episodes in the Career of Lady of the City Institute at York University and venues such as the Shenzhen Biennale, the A highly respected lecturer, Van Eyck has Architecture Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Chengdu Biennale, and London’s Architectural been a guest professor and critic at design Lisa Landrum Studies at York University, Toronto. Association. He has been a visiting professor at schools and universities around the world, Chongqing University, Muschenheim Fellow at sharing his passion for urbanity, a holistic April 2, 2012 the University of Michigan, and is an assistant approach to design and detailing, and sheer professor at the University of Toronto. He is a joy in the unexpected interplay of people and cofounder and editor of the journal Scapegoat: their environment. Architecture / Landscape / Political Economy. Van Eyck recently became adjunct professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and is a board member of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture of Taliesin. 98 Events Events15 99
“In a radio interview recorded in 1971, Edwin of Manitoba, explores issues that are intangible Over the three days three venues were engaged Design with Ecological Consciousness Awareness. Newman asked Marshall McLuhan about and overlooked/overused in design, planning and to deliver the program (the ARTLab, John A. As long as design, through perception and Ecology the relation between his work and the notion architecture, those issues that are difficult to pin Russell Building, and Winnipeg Art Gallery). 65 production, engages the environment, the issue of of ecology. McLuhan’s reply was in form of a down, document, or record with conventional proposals were submitted to the symposium ecology is extremely critical to all design disciplines question: “Do you know the origin of the word instruments and methodologies. Each year, the theme, 32 papers were invited and 21 presented today, in pedagogy and in practice. An attempt to + ecology?” As the interviewer quickly provided his event is put together by one of the Faculty of their papers and projects along with the six construct a singular belief and/or to establish a definition, the Canadian media theorist pointed Architecture’s five departments. The theme of keynotes: Maria Aiolova (Terreform ONE, New coherent design method in relation to ecology out that the etymology of the word was still Atmosphere brings together a diverse pool of York) discussed the possibility of ‘New species’ would only be a futile effort. Such an attempt may Design uncertain. McLuhan maintained that its origin speakers along a specific line of discourse. Since called ‘Urbaneer’ and stressed transdisciplinary even undermine the organic, dynamic and evolving also stemmed from Greek mythology in which 2009, the symposium has been building its practice; Mark DeKay (University of Tennessee) nature that is imperative in our understandings of Echo was a tantalizing nymph whose voice would reputation both nationally and internationally. noted why we need transformation in us, ecology ecological phenomena. The forum was a small 2013 Atmosphere Symposium repeat anything she had heard. What he implied “Felix Guattari suggests that the basic question from within rather than without; Matt Kondolf (beginning) attempt to chart diverse paths at was that ecology was not simply identifying an facing us today is “how to produce, tap, enrich, (University of Berkeley) remarked how ‘bad boys work and to inform and inspire new directions in February 7-9, 2013 area of studies preoccupied with living organisms and permanently reinvent (our subjectivity) in needs some room to mis-behave’, while discussing the practice and education of Ecology + Design. www.atmos.ca and their organization, but also, and perhaps more order to make it compatible with the Universe of how natural stream pattern renders the landscape; And many of these kinds of charts or chartings will importantly, a type of connection between things. changing values.” In this sense, ecology embraces Jennifer Siegal (office of mobile design) offered equip us with better consciousness or intuition in Similar to sound which is generated in a specific the complexity of our social ecology, the ecology ideas in ‘how to tread the ground lightly!”; David design practice and pedagogy in Design.• place and propagates to affect and be affected of the artificial environment that we produce in Gersten (Cooper Union), discussed how seamless by the surroundings, living organisms also follow our being and becoming.” all things construct our universe; Kai-Uwe 1. Bottazzi, Roberto. 2012. “Ecological Urbanism.” The Town complex patterns based on interactions, feedback This year we asked, ‘How do we teach and Bergmann(Bjarke Ingels Group), discussed how Planning Review 83 (1): 124-126. loops, and echoes.” practice ecology in design disciplines today?’; ‘How simple loops can do many things in projects, and search.proquest.com/docview/912208635?accountid=14569. can we, or how do we, make ecology relevant in environments. 2. Marras, Amerigo. ECO-TEC: Architecture of the In-between. By Jae-Sung Chon | As we began the opening our design practice and scholarship?’; ‘How and Three days were full of interesting, inspiring, (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999), 3. night with a keynote by Maria Aiolova from when do issues of ecology challenge our existing and exciting responses to the theme Ecology + 3. Pepper, David. Eco-Socialism: From Deep Ecology to Social Terreform ONE (New York), the Blizzard of modes of scholarship and practice, in design Design. Some stimulated with new thoughts and Justice. (London; New York: Routledge, 1993), 232-233. 2013, aka NEMO, with its hurricane winds and disciplines?’; ‘What are the emerging opportunities approaches, some speculated new techniques, destructive tides, signalled the timing of this year’s and dilemmas in design practice and pedagogy and some offered, with clear affirmation, that symposium entitled Ecology + Design. when dealing with ecology?’ Responses came from we are not alone in struggling with this topic! over 50 different institutions around the world, The discussion was diverse but all with the same “[H]umans are not a pollutant, neither are some as far as Australia. interest – to explore ways to practice / teach they ‘guilty’ of hubris, greed, aggregation, over competitiveness or other savageries. If they have thus, it is not by virtue of unchangeable genetic inheritance, or corruption as in original sin: the prevailing socioeconomic system is the more likely cause. Humans are not like other animals, but neither is non-human nature external to society. The nature that we perceive is socially perceived and produced. Also, what humans do is natural. Thus alienation from nature is separation from part of ourselves.”
ATMOSPHERE, the annual symposium held by the Faculty of Architecture at the University
About | The Atmosphere conference is an annual Symposium held by the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Manitoba. Each year, the event is put together by one of the Faculty of Architecture’s five departments. The theme of Atmosphere brings together a diverse pool of speakers along a specific line of discourse. The theme of Atmosphere 2014 will be ACTION and will take place February 6-8th, 2014. For more information and tickets, please visit www.atmos. ca. 100 Events Events 101 Phillip Anzalone epistemological constructions
Biography | Phillip Anzalone, AIA, is Director construct innovative full-scale projects in based architecture firm specializing in the Excerpts from Lecture | • “In a way the • “How is it going to look. This is something industry partner because they have a facility of the Building Science and Technology collaboration with allied universities globally, design and production of projects involving machinery is pretty far apart from us. We use you pay attention to in a digital fabrication that is dedicated to allowing universities to Sequence and Director of the Avery Digital directing the Paris Atelier Program bringing exploration and integration of traditional and the computer to produce what we are thinking project—how it comes apart into the pieces... come and work there; which is very weird... Fabrication Laboratory at the Graduate artists and architects together to develop new advanced materials and processes, with built of, and then the machine sits and cuts it. I’m In the end there was no way to just snap these • They say, Look, we do daily regular work. School of Architecture (GSAPP), Columbia modes of aesthetic production, developing projects in New York, San Francisco, France, always wondering if there is any way for us things together so we had to go to the old bolt But, students come and do some interesting University. As Director, Mr. Anzalone leads innovative building systems incorporated into and South Korea. His practice focuses on how to be more involved in the actual production connection. There’s nothing necessarily wrong stuff—we don’t ever know what they’re going research and curriculum related to applied built work on the Columbia University campus, new materials and technology can enable of what the machine does... We’re always with that. At Columbia a lot of times people to produce. So we’re going to have a place and experimental building science and as well as with collaborative partners, and architectural design through innovative involved in putting together and assembling just want to print their building, but you can’t with some of our older machines, but still real technology, digitally based design, fabrication researching a direct manufacturing workflow practice with projects ranging from residential these things. It’s not like you push a button and just print your building, you have to put it production machines, where students can and assembly techniques, as well as numerous system incorporating digital fabrication and and commercial work, through installations things get printed.... There are a lot of chances together. So, I was happy with this assembly.” come in and work within the space. We can constructed projects at the school. Recent assembly with augmented reality technologies. and pavilions, to furniture and architectural for us to really engage our work. Our hands are • “We knew at the last minute they would help them, and understand what people are work includes chairing international think Mr. Anzalone teaches graduate courses related objects. AA64 is involved in the design as always in this production, but at the same time send us a change. We designed the parametrics thinking; what we’re going to be building ten tanks on the future of the building industry to computer-based fabrication, building well as the construction of projects, utilizing this is always driven by computational ideas so that it would accept this change. We told years from now. • as part of the Columbia Building Intelligence structures, advanced material studies, industry both traditional and contemporary methods of of design. Hand and the machine together— them that up until the last day they could Project, organizing International Digital collaboration and architectural detailing, as fabrication and assembly.• usually the machine wins.” send us any changes. We made these nodes For a full copy of Phillip Anzalone’s Production Fabrication Workshops to design and well as graduate level design studio. • “One thing that’s interesting in reflecting in such a way that the only input required for please contact: Architecture/Fine Arts Library Anzalone is a Registered Architect with on the project has to do with the tools that we them was the lengths (between the nodes). It University of Manitoba. experience as a curtain wall consultant for R. use. The most important tool that we used would regenerate the whole situation including November 6, 2011 A. Heintges & Associates, as an architectural was an icepick. The holes were all perfect, the all of the bolt holes and everything. 6 PM | Centre Space designer with Greg Lynn Form, and is currently laser cutter does not make mistakes, but we • “In Finland up near the Russian border way John A. Russell Building a founding partner of the firm Atelier make mistakes. We [had to] drill holes in the up north is this place called FinnForest [now Faculty of Architecture University of Manitoba Architecture 64 (AA64). AA64 is a Brooklyn- T-struts to make it all work.” Metsä Wood]. They were a very interesting 102 Dean’s Lecture Series Dean’s Lecture Series 103 Hall Distinguished Professorship Chair in American History
DONALD WORSTER Odile Decq FACING LIMITS: FROM THE AGE OF ABUNDANCE Horizons TO THE AGE OF EQUILIBRIUM
Since 1989 Donald Worster has held the Hall Powell (2001), along with eight other books, American Society for Environmental History, After graduating at La Villette in 1978, Odile fighting attitude, meanwhile diversifying and Distinguished Professorship Chair in American including: Rivers of Empire, which deals sits on a number of editorial boards, and is Decq opened her own office while studying and radicalizing her research. History at the University of Kansas. Earlier, he with the development of water resources advisory editor for the Cambridge University completing her post-graduate diploma in Urban Since 1992, Odile has taught at École Spéciale taught at the University of Hawaii and Brandeis in the West; Dust Bowl (1979), a study of monograph series, “Studies in Environment Planning at Sciences Politiques Paris. d’Architecture in Paris. She has been directing University, after earning a PhD in American the Southern Plains in the “dirty thirties,” and and History.” He has lectured throughout In 1990, her first major commission, The the school from 2007 to 2012, sharing her history and literature at Yale University in Nature’s Economy (1994, second edition), the United States and in Africa, Asia, Europe, Banque Populaire de l’Ouest (BPO), in time and vision to develop the school to an 1971. His principal areas of research and which traces the development of ecology Canada, Central America, New Zealand, and Rennes, launched her into an internationally international level. teaching include North American and world from the eighteenth century to the present. Australia. He is an elected member of the renown position. The design of BPO, turned Other accomplishments of Odile environmental history and the history of the His books have been translated into French, American Academy of Arts and Sciences and old conventions upside down and identified the Decq include the MACRO (Museum for American West. Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Swedish, Korean, of the Society of American Historians and emergence of a new hope born from the punk Contemporary Art in Rome) in 2010. The Professor Worster’s publications include two and Japanese. In addition, he has published has held numerous fellowships and research rebellion. The investigation of the commission restaurant in Opera Garnier in Paris in 2011. recent prize-winning biographies, A Passion shorter pieces in the Journal of American grants. Most recently, he was named the through the use, the matter, the body, the The FRAC (Contemporary Art Museum) in for Nature: The Life of John Muir (2008), A History, Agricultural History, the Western Strachan Donnelley Distinguished Visiting technique, the taste and the architecture of Rennes in 2012 and the GL Events headquarter River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Historical Quarterly, the Pacific Historical Scholar at Yale University and a Fellow at the “Odile Decq Benoît Cornette,” Odile Decq in Lyon, which will be completed in early 2013. Review, the Ecologist, Environmental History, Rachel Carson Center, Ludwig Maximilian was able to offer a paradoxical look, both • Foreign Affairs, and others. University, Munich, Germany. • tender and severe on today’s world. The design SEPTEMber 12, 2012 As one of the pioneers of environmental November 29, 2012 of BPO received many prizes and publications, 6 PM | Centre Space history, Professor Worster has been 6 PM | Centre Space including the 1996 Golden Lion award in Venice. John A. Russell Building particularly active in building and promoting John A. Russell Building Odile Decq has been designing alone since Faculty of Architecture Faculty of Architecture University of Manitoba this field. He has served as president of the University of Manitoba 1998, where she has stayed faithful to her 104 Dean’s Lecture Series Dean’s Lecture Series 105 Excerpts from Lecture | “I will be primarily talking about my English experience of the individuals with whom I came in contact with in the 60s and 70s. But I also wanted to address it in the terms which we addressed it in the 60s, which was the fundamental questioning of the premise that you see on the screen. ‘A bicycle shed is a building, Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture.’ Which was the high architectural statement of Nicholas Pevsner following decades of statements that are similar, starting with Ruskin. Ruskin said that, ‘a railway station is just a building, but a work of architecture must raise the spirit.’” • “I’m talking about Buckminster Fuller who in publication after publication in 1924 and ’25 began to propogate his visions of a Dymaxion universe which would use technology and an understanding of resources which would guide the population of Spaceship Earth, as he later called it; a population with diminishing resources. He would analyze and attempt to demonstrate that these resources were not infinite. You see here one of the first drawings of 4D in a little booklet he put out after leaving Harvard, showing the beginnings of what we now understand and what came into fruition in the 1960s as the Whole Earth Movement.” • “It has to be said that at this time none of my generation believed that we would anthony Vidler survive to become professionals. Guy WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ECOLOGY? Debord someone who we read widely in the Situationalist International journal said, From Whole Earth To Globalization ‘Nous vivons en enfants perdus nos aventures incomplètes’, ‘We live like lost children, our Biography | Anthony Vidler received his Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The the Yale Centre for British Art, an exhibition adventures incomplete.’ Because it was a professional degree in architecture from Cooper Union in 2001, and Dean of the School that then travelled to Tate Britain and the dead end. Cambridge University in England, and in 2002. A historian and critic of modern and Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart in 2011. • “I remember, when I was in college, his doctorate in History and Theory from contemporary architecture, specializing in He has received awards from the the moment where Russian ships were the University of Technology, Delft, The French architecture from the Enlightenment Guggenheim Foundation and the National delivering missiles to Cuba and American Netherlands. Dean Vidler was a member of the to the present, he has consistently taught Endowment for the Humanities; he was a ships were approaching. We knew it would Princeton University School of Architecture courses in design and history and theory and Getty Scholar at the Getty Center for the be instantaneous Holocast in regards to the faculty from 1965–93, serving as the William continues to teach a wide variety of courses at History of Art and the Humanities in 1992–93 global war. I remember walking very nervously R. Kenan Jr. Chair of Architecture, the Chair The Cooper Union. and a Senior Mellon Fellow at the Canadian through the garden, the courtyard in front of of the PhD Committee, and Director of the As designer and curator, he installed the Centre for Architecture, Montreal, in 2005. Christopher Wren’s chapel in Emmanuel Program in European Cultural Studies. In 1993, permanent exhibition of the work of Claude- Dr. Vidler’s recent publications include: The college. The master of the college who is a very he took up a position as professor and Chair Nicolas Ledoux in the Royal Salt Works of Writing of the Walls, The Architectural Uncanny, distinguished physicist was kneeling on the of the Department of Art History at UCLA, Arc-et-Senans in Franche-Comté, France, as Warped Space, Histories of the Immediate ground in his old clothes weeding the garden. with a joint appointment in the School of well as curating the exhibition, “Ledoux et les Present, James Frazer Stirling: Notes from the I ask him, ‘So, aren’t you a bit worried?’ And Architecture from 1997. Lumières” at Arc-et-Senans for the European Archive, and Scenes of the Street and Other he looked up at me and said, ‘These plants are Dr. Vidler was appointed Acting Dean of the Year of Enlightenment. In 2004, he was asked Essays.• not worried, and I’m not worried. These things to curate the portion of the exhibition “Out of too will pass.’”• March 14, 2012 the Box” dedicated to James Stirling, for the 6 PM | Centre Space Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, For a full copy of Anthony Vidler’s Production John A. Russell Building and in 2010 installed the exhibition “Notes please contact: Architecture/Fine Arts Library Faculty of Architecture University of Manitoba from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling,” in University of Manitoba. 106 Dean’s Lecture Series Dean’s Lecture Series 107 Left: “Housing for New Orleans” by Lawrence Sass. A digitally fabricated house that can be assembled using a rubber mallet. Images courtesy of Lawrence Sass.
For a full copy of Lawrence Sass’ Production please contact: Architecture/Fine Arts Library University of Manitoba. LAWRENCE SASS THE NEXT REVOLUTION IN BUILDING DESIGN AND PRODUCTION Biography | Dr. Sass is an Associate Professor machine operated design and construction. Home Delivery | Home Delivery was an you could draw a little attachment that is as assumed that the shotgun house was made in in the Department of Architecture at MIT The best part of this is that the designer exhibition hosted by the MoMA in New York strong as a screw, in fact it is stronger than Africa. One thing you’ll notice in particular is teaching courses specifically in digital will play a larger role in the delivery process. from July 20—October 20, 2008. Lawrence a screw because you have parts completely the frieze over the front door and the porch. fabrication and design computing since 2002, Cost savings will come from the assembly on Sass spoke about his piece Housing for New interlocking into other parts.” You will notice that it has a lot of fine detail after earning a PhD 2000 and SMArchS 1994 construction sites, both manual and robotic. Orleans in his lecture “The Next Revolution “The building is an Ikea-style assembly that we re-created from photographs and visits also at MIT. Dr. Sass has a BArch from Pratt The challenge for architecture schools will be in Building Design and Production.” The process: you open the box, and each part to New Orleans. We also try desperately to Institute in NYC, has published widely, and has the development of new research and teaching following is a commentary on the design of has a number and is put together by rubber elaborate on existing detail, not to copy what exhibited his work at the Modern Museum of agendas related to creative digital design and the piece by Larry Sass excerpted from Home mallet, a glue gun, and every now and then use we saw with precision. We wanted to have a Art in New York City. fabrication across scales from furniture to Delivery Walkthrough: Digitally Fabricated a crowbar to align a couple of pieces. For the little more expression and take it a couple of Dr. Sass is an architectural designer and skyscrapers. This transformation also includes Housing for New Orleans available from most part two people can put this together steps further.” researcher exploring an emerging field known teaching of new computational methods that youtube.com/watch?v=82_6cH6JXHU with very little help.” “It’s all cut with a laser cutter, and the parts as digital design and fabrication. He believes support collaborative design production, high “The building looks strange, it looks like “I enjoy seeing buildings as an expression of the model snap together in a scaled replica that all buildings will be printed with machines level computer programming, and robotic a store-bought toy. What makes this house of the people in that environment. I find New of the building. What makes these parts very run by computers and that the age of hand fabrication.• so unique is that we completely rethought Orleans to be an incredibly special place. What special is that the machine gives us a chance crafted, hand operated construction will be a how buildings should go together. The way makes it so special is that it is very colourful, to test at full scale.” • APRIL 4, 2012 thing of the past. This includes prefabricated that we chose to make this house was out very ornate, and very detailed. The Shotgun 6 PM | Centre Space construction which is a century old tradition of interlocking parts with no fasteners and house is the only true African-American John A. Russell Building of handcrafted construction indoors. We are no screws or mechanical attachments. It architectural symbol of the United States. Faculty of Architecture University of Manitoba on the edge of a new and emerging means of is very hard for people to understand that It’s been around since slavery and many have 108 Dean’s Lecture Series Dean’s Lecture Series 109 Sophie Wolfrum TREVOR BODDY GAME OF STEPS MEGA + MICRO CANADIAN ARCHITECTURE SINCE 2000
Biography | Prof. Sophie Wolfrum studied advisory boards for some towns in Germany Biography | This was the first public offering and as curator his “TELLING DETAILS: spatial planning at the University of Dortmund and the Goethe Institute’s Advisory Council of this talk, based on Trevor Boddy’s essay The Architecture of Clifford Wiens” toured and passed the state examination in urban on Science and Current Affairs. She has been in Madrid’s Arquitectura y Vivienda and the nationally including Winnipeg’s Plug In Gallery, design in 1984. In 1989, she and Prof. Alban the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture TUM book Atlas America. At the 2011 UIA World and his “VANCOUVERISM: Architecture Janson founded the firm Janson + Wolfrum since October 2012. Congress of Architecture this essay received Builds the City” showed at Woodwards, Paris, Architektur + Stadtplanung, which has The main research areas include contextual a commendation for the Pierre Vago Prize and in London’s Trafalgar Square, accompanied received numerous awards. urbanism and cityscapes, urban landscape, for “Best Architectural Criticism Published by a huge construction in BC cedar.• From 1995 to 1996, Sophie Wolfrum was a the defining characteristics of a city, city as Worldwide, 2008-2011.” Boddy’s critical visiting professor at the University of Kassel’s architecture and performative urbanism.• architectural biography of Douglas Cardinal School of Urban Planning and Landscape was named “Alberta Book of the Year,” and Architecture. Since 2003, she has been his writings on buildings and cities have earned professor of Urban Design and Regional the Webster Journalism Prize and Western Planning at TUM’s Faculty of Architecture. Magazine Award. He teaches at UBC, and She is a member of the German Academy previously at Oregon, Carleton, Toronto and for Urban Regional Spatial Planning (DASL) Manitoba. As consulting urban designer he FEB. 11 2013 and an expert adjudicator on several juries. FEB. 26 2013 organized the “TownShift: Suburb Into City” 6 PM | Centre Space She is also a member of various consulting 6 PM | Centre Space ideas competition (www.townshift.ca), as John A. Russell Building committees, including Baukollegium Zürich John A. Russell Building artist he contributed “HybridCity” to VAG’s Faculty of Architecture Faculty of Architecture University of Manitoba 2006-10, iba see 2002-10, architectural University of Manitoba “WE Vancouver: 12 Manifestos for the City,” 110 Dean’s Lecture Series Dean’s Lecture Series 111 Douglas Cardinal
Biography | As the creative mind behind some Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media architecture, rich in curvilinear forms, evokes Directly Left: Douglas Cardinal, B.Arch., O.C., During the Spring R.C.A.A., F.R.A.I.C., F.R.I.A.S. Image courtesy of of Canada’s most iconic buildings, Douglas Arts in 2001. the Canadian landscape and his Aboriginal the University of Manitoba. 2012 Convocation, Top: First Nations University of Canada in Regina, Cardinal is recognized for his bold vision and Graduating with a degree in architecture ancestry. He believes that the design of Saskatchewan. Image courtesy of Douglas commitment to his indigenous heritage. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1963, buildings is a spiritual endeavour which Cardinal Architect Inc. Dean Ralph Stern Left Page: St. Mary’s Parish, Red Deer Alberta. presented Born in Alberta of Métis and Blackfoot Mr. Cardinal’s creative vision began to take demands collaboration and respect. And as his Image courtesy of Douglas Cardinal Architect Inc. heritage, Mr. Cardinal created an Indigenous shape in western Canada where he designed visionary creations grew ever-more complex, Douglas Cardinal style of architecture marked by smooth organic St. Mary’s Church in Red Deer, Alberta. Mr. Cardinal began innovating the design with an honorary lines and influenced by his Canadian and The design is reminiscent of Frank Gehry’s process by incorporating computers; he was Aboriginal heritage. His visionary work has Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain, except Mr. one of the first architects to do so. doctorate degree earned him accolades around the world and Cardinal’s church predates the Guggenheim In 1983, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal eight honorary doctorate degrees from other by almost four decades. The church is made Architectural Institute of Canada. In 1990, he Canadian universities. of brick and every wall, even the roof, is curved. was awarded the Order of Canada. In 2003, he His creative process involves a strong Other works by Mr. Cardinal include the was elected a Member of the Royal Society of community-oriented philosophy, in which Grande Prairie Regional College; the Edmonton Canada. he involves elders and community leaders to Space and Science Centre; the Government Mr. Cardinal is recognized today for influence his design’s conceptual development. Services Centre in Ponoka, Alberta; First being an innovator, a creator, a visionary One of his most famous works is the Canadian Nation University of Canada; and Thunderbird and a trailblazer.• Museum of Civilization in Hull, Quebec, which House in Winnipeg. earned him numerous awards, including the Mr. Cardinal’s unique, pioneering style of 112 Dean’s Lecture Series Dean’s Lecture Series 113 Awards
FACULTY WIDE AWARDS Interior Design William C. Gray ARCC/King Student Medal Yoshihiro Yabe (2011-2012) Landscape Architecture Mengyi Li Corrigill Scholarships 2011-2012 Price Industries Limited Environmental Design Faculty of Architecture Aaron Pollock Recruitment Award Brandon Bergem 2011-2012 Nicole Lesko Environmental Design Breanna Mulhall Hillary Cohen Katherine Pihooja Architecture Sarah Stasiuk Volodymyr Amiot Stefan Klassen
City Planning Architecture Robin Beukens Andrew Craig (Amp 1) Rei Kurosawa (Amp 2) Interior Design Architecture Evan Schellenberg (2012- Jessica Kost City Planning Jaya Beange 2013) Sangwoo Hong Emily Davis Landscape Architecture Fredrik Kristjansson Tamara Urben-Imbeault Interior Design City Planning Scholarship in Architecture Christopher Macdonald Keke Wang Christina Maes (2010-2011) 2012-2013 Corrie Allan Onilee Zaborniak (2011- Environmental Design Interior Design 2012) Aaron Pollock Landscape Architecture Raisa Lisunova Garth Woolison Megan Wilson Julia Schaffel G. Clarence Elliott Fellowships Renee Struthers 2011-2012 Stefan Klassen 2012-2013 Landscape Architecture Caitlin Kotak Environmental Design Kaeley Gould Robin Beukens Architecture Kyla Crawford Gordon Yiu Emily Bews Faculty of Architecture 2012-2013 Anita Robles Endowed Scholarships Alexis Miller City Planning 2011-2012 Marie Mbadugha Ryan Gilmore Clifford Goodwill Ryan Gilmore Grant Fahlgren Krysti Horton James Palmer Lewis Student Marie Levesque Award Volodymyr Amiot 2010-2011 Caitlin Kotak 2012-2013 Scott McCullough Lee Halwa Lindsay Biberdorf 2012-2013 Ryan Gilmore Chelsea Maier Taylor LaRocque Jason Shields Volodymyr Amiot Maxwell Starkman Travel Faculty of Architecture Award Design Award Joyce Rautenberg (2011- Joyce Lee (2011-2012) 2012) 114 Awards Awards 115 University of Manitoba City Planning Cibinel Design Achievement Graduate Fellowship Alexander Henderson Michael Cox Scholarship Award 2011-2012 Andrea Spakowski Laurianne Parent (2011- Henry Tufts (2011-2012) Architecture Ashlyn Haglund 2012) Brent Bell (2012-2013) Chad Connery Gomez Breanna Mitchell (2012- K.C. McCormick 2013) Harry Seidler and John Mallory Briggs Interior Design Russell Recruitment Award in Clifford Goodwill Pinky Plates Prize Architecture City Planning Lindsay Biberdorf Mallory Enns (2011-2012) Bree Bergen (2011-2012) Aaron Leckie Melissa Vasconcelos Sarah Stasiuk (2012-2013) Kyle Wires-Munro (2012- Kelly McRae William Gray 2013) Caitlin Kotak Students’ Architectural Johanna M. Washchyshyn Landscape Society Awards Henry Adams American Architecture 2011-2012 Institute of Architects Interior Design Kristen Struthers Brad LaFoy Certificate Manitoba Association of Stantec Architectural Erin Riediger Michael Lucenkiw Landscape Architecture Stephen Muirhead John Duerkson (2011-2012) Architects Comprehensive/ Fellowship Clarice To Nathan MacLeod Marie Levesque Dr. A.W. Hogg Scholarship Design Thesis Medal Chad Connery (2011-2012) Taylor LaRocque Trent Workman Grant Fahlgren (2011-2012) 2012-2013 Henry Adams American Marc Mainville (2011-2012) Tiffany Leong (2012-2013) Landscape Architecture Robyn Arnason (2012-2013) David Paton Institute of Architects Medal Curtis Krul 2012-2013 2012-2013 Saira Abdulrehman Jordy Craddock (2011-2012) Mel P. Michener Architectural Steel Structures Education Ian Macdonald Architecture Architecture Ibister Scholarship Fellowship Foundation Scholarships Lee Halwa Chelsea Grant Grant Fahlgren (2011-2012) Terry Cristall Scholarship in Le Prix Jacques Collin en Paul Dolick (2011-2012) Paul Dolick (2011-2012) 2012-2013 Tina Gigliotti Christopher Knight Robyn Arnason (2012-2013) Environmental Design Architecture Brent Bell (2012-2013) Chris Burke (2012-2013) Architecture City Planning Steve Gairns Sarah Manteuffel (2011- Olivia Fung (2011-2012) Brent Bell Erika Blackie Volodymyr S. Amiot James Palmer Lewis Student 2012) Norman Ripley Memorial Randy Gilbart Memorial Jeffrey Kachkan Interior Design Scholarship Einat Menashe (2012-2013) Leonard C. Klingbell Scholarship Scholarship Kyle Wires-Munro Christopher Macdonald City Planning 2011-2012 Scholarship in Architecture April David (2011-2012) Monica Hutton (2011-2012) Seyed Mojtaba Hoseini Corrie Allan Andrea Spakowski Shawn Sinclair Chad Connery (2011-2012) Nadine Burner (2012-2013) Bree Bergen (2012-2013) Ting Wu Renee Struthers Ashlyn Haglund Lee Halwa Joshua Adria (2012-2013) Samantha Quiologue Stephen Himmerich The R.A.C. Memorial Northern Sky Architecture Raymond S.C. Wan Architect City Planning Interior Design Stepehen Muirhead Scholarship Manitoba Association of Award for Environmental Recruitment Award Gabrielle Donoff Landscape Architecture Clifford Goodwill Renee Struthers (2011-2012) Architects - Architecture Stewardship Jonathan Granke (2011- Rachelle Kirouac Lindsay M. Biberdorf 2012-2013 Robyn Arnason (2012-2013) Recruitment Award Rebecca Wong (2011-2012) 2012) Landscape Architecture HeaLan Hur Aron Coates (2011-2012) Daria Diakovska (2012-2013) Daniel Hapton (2012-2013) Bing Wang SSHRC Landscape Architecture Hillary Cohen University of Manitoba Gold Jaya Beange (2012-2013) Ian Macdonald 2011-2012 Nathan MacLeod Katherine Pihooja Medal President’s Graduate Roxane Gratton Architecture Kathleen Black (2011-2012) Scholarship for First Nations, Henry Tufts ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN Kasian Scholarship for Inuit, and Métis Students Manitoba Graduate PROGRAM Architecture and Design William and Olive Humphrys Dan DuFault Scholarship City Planning Excellence Scholarship for Architecture 2011-2012 Chris Larson Dan Muir Memorial Award Kathleen Black (2011-2012) Stefan Klassen (2012-2013) Architecture Lee Halwa (2011-2012) Michael Butterworth (2012-2013) Anthony Neustaedlter DEPARTMENT OF Bree Bergen ARCHITECTURE Chelsea Grant Christopher Knight Alpha Rho Chi Medal Daria Diakovska Dan Dufault (2011-2012) Jonathan Granke Kyle Janzen Bill Allen Scholarship in Monica Hutton Architectures 2010/2011 Steven Gairns Travel: Marc Mainville Volodymyr Amiot Research: Shannon Wiebe
116 Awards Awards 117 Royal Architecture Institute Dean David Witty Urban Jill Collinson of Canada Design Scholarship Shengxu Li Professional Interior 2011-2012 Scott McCullough (2011- Special Commendation: Designers Institute of Honour Roll 2012) Robin Beukens Manitoba Medal Jordy Craddock Dylan Harris (2012-2013) Ivy Bricker (2011-2012) John Duerkson The Canadian Institute of Shannon Wiebe Manitoba Professional Planners Student Award Roy C. Rettinger Graduate Marc Mainville Planners Institute Award for for Academic Excellence Scholarships for Interior Planning Excellence 2010/2011 Design Royal Architecture Institute Christina Maes Lauren Lange 2011-2012 of Canada Mayor’s Medal Heather Arabsky Student Medal Erin Huck (2011-2012) Thomas B. Yauk – MPPI Nicole Lesko 2012-2013 Alexandra Chomik (2011- Jonathan G. Hildebrand Scholarship Katharine Walker 2012) (2012-2013) 2012-2013 2012-2013 Liang Chengru Andrea Spakowski Stephen Arentsen Sheralyn Dunlop William E. Sheets Scholarship MPPI Best MDP Award Dylan Harris Suzanne Therrien-Richards Stephanie McKichan in Architecture Richard Mahe Ryan Gilmore Chritopher Knight (2011- Stephanie Long Stantec Interior Design Canadian Society of 2012) DEPARTMENT OF Fellowship Landscape Architects Award Lee Halwa (2012-2013) MPPI Cast-in-point INTERIOR DESIGN Kaley Lawrence (2011-2012) Devin Segal (2011-2012) Excellence Awards Lindsay Bieberdorf (2012- DEPARTMENT OF CITY 2011-2012 Jean M. Pearen Scholarship 2013) Carl R. Nelson Travelling PLANNING Grand Award Winner: Nicole Lesko (2011-2012) Steelcase Prize for Fellowships Carole O’Brien Kaitlyn Jardine (2012-2013) Design Excellence 2010/2011 City Planning Jubilee Honourable Mention: Ivy Bricker Nefeli Mitrovgenis Scholarship Christina Maes Joan Harland Scholarship Tamera Kucey Memorial Dustin Dilts Adam Prokopanko (2011- Special Commendation: Kaley Lawrence (2011-2012) Scholarship Manitoba Association of TEACHING AWARD 2012) Erin Huck Lindsay M. Biberdorf (2012- Lindsay Biberdorf (2011- Charles H. Thomsen Landscape Architects Jeana Klassen (2012-2013) 2013) 2012) Scholarship Gold Medal Carl R. Nelson Teaching 2012-2013 Emily Taylor (2012-2013) Shawn Stankewich (2010/ Yoshihiro Yabe (2011-2012) Award Grand Award Winner: PIDIM Thesis/Practicum Prize 2011) Jeff Garcia (2011-2012) Chris Larson Ivy Bricker (2011-2012) DEPARTMENT Christina Walkden (2011- University Olmsted Scholar Lancelot Coar (2012-2013) Honourable Mention: Aimee Mah (2012-2013) OF LANDSCAPE 2012) Shawn Stankewich ARCHITECTURE Landscape Architecture Alexander E. Rattray Entrance Scholarship Scholarship in Landscape Kristen Struthers (2011- Architecture 2012) Mengyi Li (2011-2012) Katharine Walker (2012- Bing Wang (2012-2013) 2013)
Andre Schwabenbauer Landscape Architecture Scholarship Thesis/Practicum Prize Trent Workman (2011-2012) Sonja Stroud (2011-2012) Yoshihiro Yabe (2012-2013) Barkman Concrete Manitoba Association Scholarship of Landscape Architects 2011-2012 Fellowship James Simpson Tamara Urben-Imbeault Jody Rutledge (2011-2012) Kaila Johnson Danielle Loeb (2012-2013) Megan Wilson
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