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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.
spring 2014 mapping photography
contributors
hector abarca, a Peruvian architect with masters from Spain and Poland, and further post graduate study from Italy and Sweden, has recently joined the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles. His non-affiliated personal research interest is built and unbuilt Latin American Modern architecture. maria alexandrescu is studying landscape architecture at TU Delft. mlxndrsc.wordpress.com 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 rodrigo barros is an architect, musician and activist from Valparaíso, Chile. He is as interested in a critical and emancipatory practice and thinking of architecture as in freejazz-punk-dub and the poetry of everyday life. rodrigoebarros@gmail.com michael blois has an MArch degree from Ryerson University and is an intern architect working in Toronto. mikeblois@gmail.com sean burkholder is Assistant Professor of Landscape and Urban Design at the University at Buffalo. His research coalesces around the ‘extra’ landscapes that are the unconsidered resultant of various anthropological processes. jessica craig is an architectural designer and researcher with forays into photography. Her work stems from an interest in the psychological tones of inhabited space, particularly regarding identity and culture in post-national societies. will craig is a practising architect with Dialog in Calgary. He has had the opportunity to contribute to significant place-making projects in Calgary and maintains a passion for urbanism research. keesic douglas is an Ojibway artist from the Rama/Mnjikaning First Nation in central Ontario, Canada. Keesic focuses on sharing his Indigenous perspectives as well as his Aboriginal heritage and stories in his photography and films. www.keesic.com asher ghaffar is a doctoral candidate completing his dissertation on British Pakistani literature and political philosophy. He is the author of one collection of poetry, Wasps in a Golden Dream Hum a Strange Music , published with ECW Press in 2008. sean irwin is a writer and designer based in Toronto. dennis keen is a writer and ethnographer living in Almaty, Kazakhstan. His website is EurasiaEurasia.com and you’re encouraged to write to him at DennisThorstedKeen@gmail.com eric klaver is Senior Landscape Architect at PLANT Architect in Toronto. Working internationally for 20 years, Eric has cultivated an interest in areas of art, science, nature and culture that intersect with our designed environments. espen lunde nielsen is currently a PhD Fellow at Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark, with the project ‘Architectural Probes of the Infraordinary’. Teaching since 2012 and holds a M.A. in Architecture (AAA, January 2012). no38.org lisa rapoport , a founding partner of Toronto’s PLANT Architect Inc., is widely known for her work exploring the relationship between architecture and landscape through a combination of commissioned public space, private projects and self-initiated research. chloé roubert is an anthropologist interested in the social lives of things, organic beings and the everyday. She is currently in Shanghai mapping fauna as a means to rethink the city’s urban and social changes. natalia skoczylas , a typical modern nomad born in Poland. Freelance journalist, event organiser, self-made cultural animator, leftist, political scientist with aspirations for PhD for two years now as a candidate, culture addict, word maniac, optimist. victoria stanton is a performance artist, video-maker, and writer. She has presented actions, exhibitions, and videos internationally, has been published in anthologies and art/literary/lifestyle magazines and is CEO of her own bank: www.bankofvictoria.com bradford watson is an Architect and Assistant Professor of Architecture at Montana State University. His research focuses on the agency of mapping and terrain as constructors of place and the infrastructure this requires. nora wendl questions the composition of architecture – seeking to expand the perception of what the discipline’s built forms and histories are (and could be). She is Assistant Professor of Architecture at Portland State University. www.norawendl.com jacob whibley is a Toronto based artist working with collage, sculpture and drawing. His practice focuses on the information and experiences embedded within objects and forms by intuitively blending histories, architecture, and ambiguous temporalities into formal structures. stephanie white is the editor of On Site review , a journal with an archipelagic relationship to sites of architectural production. robin wilson PhD, is a writer on art and architecture, and teaches at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. He is co-founder of the art practice Photolanguage with artist and photographer Nigel Green. robinwilsonprojects@hotmail.co.uk
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