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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.
M Alexandrescu is a student of architecture at the University of Waterloo. www.mlxndrsc.tk Reza Aliabadi (MArch 1999, MPhil Arch 2006) ICEO, MRAIC, OAA is the founder of atelier rzlbd. He splits his time completing architectural projects in North America and Asia and publishing rzlbd POST. www.rzlbd.com Arthur Allen , retired architect in Vancouver, writes on psychology and ethics in design and operation of mental hospitals, prisons and zoos. His design experience included psychiatric facilities and hospital consulting in Saskatchewan in the 1950s. Greg Barton is a curator, based in New York, currently living in London. Michael Blois has an MArch degree from Ryerson University and he is an Intern Architect working in Toronto. Michael can be reached at mikeblois@gmail.com Liam Brown is a graduate of the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. His research on mortality and architecture focusses on associative memorial rituals. He approaches the subject with unapologetic optimism. liamdrbrown@gmail.com Joshua Craze is an essayist based in Juba, Southern Sudan. Barbara Cuerden continues to use her Master’s thesis as compostable research, liking some of the adaptations her original topic ‘Art, Nature and the Virtual Environment’ has made to life outside the academy. creaturality.wordpress.com Enrique Enriquez is an architect in Montréal and part of the international collective, Urban B’s. Gerald Forseth (BArch Toronto) FRAIC practices in Calgary. He investigates ancient/modern settlements, art/artifacts to better understand our relationship to land, societal need and cultural change. forsetharchitectsltd@shaw.ca Don Gill teaches in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Lethbridge. He is a co-curator, with Ryan Doherty, of Mapping a Prairie City: Lethbridge and its Suburbs. Kenneth Hayes is an architectural historian, contemporary art critic and Creative Producer with Musagetes in Sudbury. Joseph Heathcott is an associate professor of urban studies at The New School in New York, where he teaches in Eugene Lang College and Parsons School of Design. He is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics. Lisa Hirmer is a designer/photographer/artist/writer based in Guelph, Ontario and a principal/founder of the creative research collective DodoLab. She has an MArch from the University of Waterloo. www.dodo lab.ca Ksenia Kagner is an urban and landscape designer. Originally from Kazakhstan, Kagner is now based in New York City. Ina Kwon , freelance graphic-designer and researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, studied book art and graphic-design at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. inakwon@janvaneyck.nl Michael Leeb is a visual artist and writer, a member of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada, and the Field Notes Collective, a collaborative collective of artists and scientists. Matt Neville is an urbanist working on the fringe of urbanism, architecture and anthropology, where sociospatial aspects of housing, habitat and territory intersect. He can be reached at matt@naturestate.ca or via Twitter @naturestate Giulio Petrocco is an Italian photojournalist who has worked in Georgia, Italy, Turkey, and more recently Sudan and Yemen. Currently in Venice, his next location is Sana’a,Yemen. www.giuliopetrocco.com Maya Przybylski is a director of InfraNet Lab, an editor of [bracket], and Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo. Stephen Riether is a sculptor at in blue inc. in Calgary. Chloé Roubert is interested in the mechanisms behind everyday occurrences.A graduate in Visual and Material Anthropology from University College London, she writes and curates about these questions as well as works in a digital think tank in Montreal. chloecollects.blogspot.com Lailee Soleimani holds a Master of Architecture from University of Toronto, where she became interested in a world constantly at play (uplay.lailee.ca). She currently thinks and practices architecture with atelier rzlbd in Toronto. Tanya Southcott is an architect in Vancouver. Meaghan Thurston is a freelance writer based in Montreal, Quebec, with recent articles published in roverarts.com and Forum:The University of Edinburgh’s Postgraduate Journal of Arts and Culture . WAI Architecture Think Tank is a workshop for architecture intelligentsia based in Beijing. Co-founded in 2008 by French architect Nathalie Frankowski and Puerto Rican architect Cruz Garcia,WAI constantly asks What About It? Stephanie White is the editor of On Site review .
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