CANADIAN ARCHITECT 12/19
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WINNERS
CODING A BIOPHILIC CORE
FROM MATTER TO PLACE
Cameron Parkin is an Adjunct Faculty member at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture, an Adjunct Instructor at the University at Buffalo, and a Research Associate at Waterloo’s DATAlab. Cameron’s research focuses on the representation of complex field conditions through data driven, computationally generated drawings and models, with a specific interest in ecological systems in the urban environment. Cameron received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Waterloo, where his thesis won the AIA Henry Adams Medal.
A graduate of the M.Arch program at the Université Laval’s School of Architecture in 2019, Pierre-Olivier Demeule is currently completing a second Master’s in Science within the Living in Northern Quebec (LINQ ) research partnership. With the collaboration of the community of Salluit (Nunavik), his thesis focuses on so-called “informal” and autonomous ways of living on the tundra. The research seeks to stimulate reflection on construction methods that are empowering and create a link between the physical world and the cosmos, notably through the reliance on traditional local knowledge and local materials.
ULTIMA THULE
Brandon Eli John Bergem holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design from the University of Manitoba and a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Toronto. In 2019, he received the Kuwabara-Jackman Architecture Thesis Gold Medal. His project demonstrates his interests in climate change, narrative and regional mythologies. Brandon lives in Toronto and is working for 5467896. Additionally, he is the co-founder of oISO, an interdisciplinary research-based practice.
BAHÁ’Í TEMPLE OF SOUTH AMERICA
LISTENING TO CLIMATE CHANGE
Josh Wallace holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design Studies from Dalhousie University and a Master of Architecture from Carleton University. He received the RAIC’s Student Medal for his thesis. Prior to his career in architecture, Josh pursued musical practices as a composer, performer and youth instructor. His thesis work focuses on acoustics and architecture’s ability to produce and facilitate novel modes of listening to and interacting with environmental phenomenon, and the cultural implications that these modes can foster. FREE / OPEN-SOURCE CITY
Samuel Gendron Fortier is a graduate from the Université de Montréal’s M.Arch program, where he won the AIA Henry Adams Medal, Lemay Prize, and Marosi Troy Scholarship. He is currently working at Guillaume Pelletier Architect in Montreal. Throughout his studies and work, Samuel focuses and plays with the relationship between architecture spaces, human interactions and machines’ omnipresence. After studying these issues on sites in Montreal and San Francisco, he is now researching their effects in Europe, while learning different programming languages.
doublespace photography is Amanda Large and Younes Bounhar. We make simple, bold and elegant architectural photography. Our creative vision is the product of our combined experience and diametrically opposed backgrounds: Amanda is trained as an architect and worked in the field for five years, while Younes is a former biologist-turnedlandscape-photographer. Our work has helped our clients garner several national and international awards and is regularly featured in architecture and design magazines. RAVINE, ONTARIO SCIENCE CENTRE / PENTHOUSE, 62 M
James Brittain read history of art at the University of Leeds, before going on to study photography at the London College of Printing. He has spent the past 18 years working on commissions in the field of architecture. He uses his commissioned work to support his own photographic practice, exploring ideas around human experience of the built environment. Brittain has been the principal photographer on books including a monograph on the work of McKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects (2017). His work has been exhibited at the Architectural Association Gallery and the Contact Photography Festival.