ON SITE r e v i e w
fall 2013 ethics and publics
On Site review is published twice annually (Spring and Fall) by the
Association for non-profit architectural fieldwork [alberta] which promotes field work in matters architectural, cultural and spatial.
thomas-bernard kenniff is currently an invited professor at the École d’architecture de l’Université Laval, Québec City. His work focuses on the relationship between design, public space and dialogue. guest editor
contributors
hector abarca , a licenced architect in Peru, has worked and studied in Spain, Poland, Italy and Sweden in diagnosis and rehabilitation of buildings, urban revitalisation, cultural development and management of heritage sites. martin abbott MArch (Sydney) is a graduate student at Sciences Po in Paris, part of the Urban Governance and Public Policy program ‘Governing the Large Metropolis’. His interest is the contemporary city and the political, social and economic formations which define its existence. reza aliabadi [M.Arch 1999, M.Phil.Arch 2006] ICEO, MRAIC, OAA is the founder of atelier rzlbd in Toronto. He splits his time between his architectural practice, rzlbd POST, and atelier rzlbd. www.rzlbd.com dick averns ’ art and writing explore the commodification of space. In 2009 he was deployed to the Middle East with the Canadian Forces Artists Program. He teaches at the Alberta College of Art + Design. adrian blackwell is an artist, architectural designer, and urban theorist. He is an editor of the journal Scapegoat: Architecture / Landscape / Political Economy and an assistant professor at the University of Waterloo. novka cosovic , an Intern Architect, works at re:Plan in Toronto. Her design research exists at the intersection of architecture, writing, and history. novkacosovic@gmail.com steven chodoriwsky , originally from Northeastern Ontario, taught recently at Cornell University, and is currently working on living in Los Angeles. jessica craig works at Plant Architect, Toronto. joshua craze spends a lot of his working life looking at photographs of bullets and bomb debris. In his spare time, he likes to eat ortolan and oysters. He is opposed to psychoanalysis. www.joshuacraze.com michael dirisio is currently completing an MFA at the University of Windsor, where his art and research focuses on political and social activism. He co-founded with Teresa Carlesimo urbanfieldworkers.org – an art collective. julian jason haladyn is a Postdoctoral Fellow and instructor at the University of Toronto. His writings on art and visual theory have been published extensively. cynthia hammond is Chair of the Department of Art History at Concordia University and associate professor of architectural history. Her work focuses on women’s role in the creation of the built environment and the design of landscapes. caroline howes is an intern architect working in Toronto. She completed a BAS at the University of Waterloo, and an MArch at Dalhousie University. She is interested in adaptable architecture. cjehowes@gmail.com shauna janssen is completing a PhD at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture at Concordia University, Montréal. Her research focuses on the politics and reuse of post-industrial sites and landscapes for cultural purposes. william kingfisher , artist, curator and member of mno miijim arts collective in Peterborough, Ontario, does art that combines the spaces of contemporary life and traditional knowledge to reconnect us to land, language, water, plants and food. ted landrum has practised and taught architecture in the United States and Canada. He is currently building a collection of archi-poems called Midway Radicals. See Quality Out of Contro l (Routledge) and umanitoba.ca/schools/art/ted_landrum_o1 michael j leeb is a visual artist (University of Lethbridge, Fine Arts) and recently the writer-in-residence at Gushul Writer’s Cottage in Blairmore, Alberta. jleeb@telusplanet.net jeffrey olinger , a practicing architect at William Rawn Associates in Boston Massachusetts, is the co-founder of New World Design llc. a strategic design consultancy at the intersection of architecture and global affairs. www.nwd-office.com duncan patterson is a design associate at M J | architecture. He has also taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Waterloo, and is a director of the Al Purdy A-Frame Association. dprpatterson.com virginia fernandez rincon interweaves media, praxes and continents to bridge disparities between and within societies, especially informal settlements in North and South America with issues of identity, culture and self- determination. She currently lives in Cambridge Ontario. corey schnobrich is an architect with Bohlin Cywinski Jackson in San Francisco. He graduated in 2012 from the University of California, Berkeley, with a Masters of Science of Architecture. thomas strickland received his PhD in architectural history from McGill University in 2012. Prior to his graduate studies he worked as an architect and curator, and is now working on spatial justice for LGBTQ refugees. dustin valen is a first year PhD student at McGill’s School of Architecture in Montréal where he is conducting research into early modern and twentieth century landscape practices. dustin.valen@gmail.com sarah walsh is a UCLA doctoral student specialising in the history of modern Japan. She is a native of Brockton, Massachusetts and a collaborator in the making of Saints of the Old City . ron wickman is a leading advocate for barrier free design in buildings and landscapes. His commitment to accessible housing and his award-winning practical and functional designs has earned him national recognition. He lives in Edmonton. stephanie white is the editor of On Site review . www.onsitereview.ca Any typos are her fault.
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