DAS Final Reviews
- Date
- April 22, 2021 - April 30, 2021
- Time
- 9:00 AM EDT - 6:00 PM EDT
- Location
- Registration and live-stream links below
- Open To
- Public
- Contact
- alexandra.berceanu@torontomu.ca
The following studios are open to the Public:
Click on any of the student names or topics below to access the live-stream link. Recordings of presentations will be available for viewing on the Department of Architectural Science YouTube (external link) channel shortly following each presentation.
Monday, April 26 2021 - Milestone 4
| Time | Topic & Student | Supervisor | Seconder Reader & Program Rep | External Critics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:30 AM | Line in Architecture: Inhabiting Drawing (external link, opens in new window) |
John Cirka | Colin Ripley, Marco Polo | Stefano Corbo, Chloe Town |
| 11:00 AM | Oneiric Architecture: Perceptions of Reality (external link, opens in new window) |
John Cirka | Scott Sorli, Marco Polo | Andrew Levitt, Chloe Town |
| 12:30 PM | Disobedient Architecture: Lessons from the Autonomous Zone (external link, opens in new window) |
Carlo Parente | Scott Sorli, Colin Ripley | Christine Leu, Kevin Weiss |
| 2:00 PM | Ephemeral Boundaries: Toward a Fluidity of Space (external link, opens in new window) |
John Cirka | June Komisar, Marco Polo | Taymoore Balbaa, Philip Hastings |
Tuesday, April 27 2021 - Milestone 4
| Time | Presenter | Supervisor | Seconder Reader & Program Rep | External Critics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00 AM | Leila Farah | Terri Peters, Mark Gorgolewski | Gail Shillingford, Ari Mazzeo | |
| 12:30 PM | Paul Floerke | Jason Ramelson, Carlo Parente | Tania Bortolotto, Talbot Sweetapple | |
| 2:00 PM | Life Between Generations: A Housing Typology for Aging in Place (external link, opens in new window) |
Terri Peters | William Galloway, Cheryl Atkinson | Sydney Browne, Steve Nonis |
Wednesday, April 28 2021 - Milestone 3
| Time | Presenter | Supervisor | Seconder Reader & Program Rep |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00 AM | Community Commons: Fostering Social Resilience (external link, opens in new window) |
Leila Farah | June Komisar, Mark Gorgolewski |
| 12:30 PM | Vincent Hui | Jason Ramelson, Carlo Parente |
Thursday, April 29 2021 - Milestone 3
| Time | Presenter | Supervisor | Seconder Reader & Program Rep |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:30 AM | Instabilities of the Image (external link, opens in new window) |
Marco Polo | John Cirka, Cheryl Atkinson |
| 11:00 AM | Reading Urbanity: Articulating Toronto Regionalism (external link, opens in new window) |
Marco Polo | Masha Etkind, Paul Floerke |
Friday, April 30 2021 - Milestone 3
| Time | Presenter | Supervisor | Seconder Reader & Program Rep |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:30 AM | Colin Ripley | Michelle Grant, Jurij Leshchyshyn | |
| 11:00 AM | FRAGILE: Designs for Certain Uncertainty (external link, opens in new window) |
William Galloway | Marco Polo, Paul Floerke |
Genesis of Ecologies in the Post-Anthropocene
Instructor: Vincent Hui
THURSDAY, APRIL 22 | MORNING 10:00 AM -12:30 PM and AFTERNOON 1:30PM – 4:00 PM
Architects are optimistic as they project a future where humanity can engage their built ideas in daily life. This studio challenges students to project into a future without humanity built upon the remnants of daily life.
The studio projects serve as opportunities for students to creatively explore a myriad of complex design facets in the new ecosystems they will develop in the Post-Anthropocene era. Projects encourage discourse at a hypothetical and hyper-theoretical level that will mandate extensive research, design knowledge, synthesis, and digital investigation.
Rural Studio - Sustainable Strategies
Instructor: Dimitri Papatheodorou
THURSDAY, APRIL 22 | 2: 00 PM
Country Culture Lab looks at the near future of rural development examining both architectural and planning issues. In this studio we study embodied rural components, their relationships to each other and to the environment. The intent is to develop prototypes and principles governing future growth in the country. The Lab focuses on several distinct sites with program that shall be selected dependent on existing conditions and proposed futures, including but not limited to: housing, mercantile, food production, live-work, cultural landscapes and places.
Toronto Met Architectural Research Centre: RYE_ARC
Instructor: Marco Polo
THURSDAY, APRIL 22 | 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Research is playing an increasingly important role in architectural practice and education. Over the past two decades a number of universities and other institutions have expanded not only their research activities, but also the facilities to accommodate the wide range of modalities that constitute research in architecture and related disciplines.
Toronto Met’s Department of Architectural Science has experienced this expansion first-hand, with considerable growth in many research activities and outcomes: material science, building performance, sustainability, facilities management, project delivery, digital design and fabrication, augmented reality, design research, history and theory, publications, exhibitions, etc. In recent years, despite the establishment and expansion of research spaces within the Architecture Building, such as the Building Science Lab and digital fabrication facilities, it is clear that the existing building cannot accommodate the increasing ambition of the Department’s research programs.
This studio uses this as a point of departure to carry out a study of this phenomenon on several levels:
- It provides students with the opportunity to delve into the world of architectural research, and to learn more about the various trajectories being developed and pursued in the discipline in general, and at Toronto Met in particular.
- It challenges students to imagine and propose an architecture that both accommodates and expresses the possibilities of an institute devoted to architectural research in its various modalities.
- It challenges students to imagine and propose an architecture that expresses the values inherent in the Department of Architectural Science.
Studio in Collaborative Practice
Instructor: Cheryl Atkinson and Carol Phillips
FRIDAY, APRIL 23 | 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
This studio addresses the agency of the architect in the Anthropocene - this period of environmental crisis. Only by understanding the variety of externalities that have determined built form can we begin to propose and test alternatives forms, typologies, processes, politics and strategies and that can help make the built environment not only more accessible, but mor e responsive to humanity. Like all architecture of merit, yours should seek to satisfy our emotional and intellectual needs as well as our physical accommodations in this new context of how we make more ‘woke’ material, technical and system design foundations to our architecture.
Guest Critics
Vik Jaunkalns, MJMA
Mark Sterling, Acronym Urban Design
David Moses, Moses Structural Engineers
Pat Hanson, gh3
Sasa Radulovic, 5468796 architecture
Mark Sterling, Acronym Urban Design
Michael Maltzan, MM Architecture
Robert Jackson,P.Eng. Fast + Epp
