contributors
on site review 29 geology
spring 2013
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.
martin abbott is a Master of Architecture graduate from the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia and currently lives in Delhi, India. His fascination is the city and the social, political and economic interdependencies which define their existence. www.futurestudio.info heather asquith is an architect interested in the rural landscape and its ties to urban places. She practices in Toronto, Ontario. heather.asquith@sympatico.ca john calvelli is a design theorist and photographer who teaches in the School of Critical and Creative Studies at Alberta College of Art and Design. His work may be found at Academia.edu daniel canty i s an author and director living in Montreal. His work touches upon the realms of literature, film, new media, theatre, visual arts and design. Wigrum ( La Peuplade , 2011), his first novel, is soon to be published by Talonbooks in a translation by Oana Avisilichioaei ryan coghlan is a landscape architecture student based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Currently he’s interested in how spontaneity and adaptability can create more vibrant cities and where to find the perfect espresso. mail@ryancoghlan.com will craig is a designer of architectural and urban projects with DIALOG and maintains a (slightly obsessive) interest in ideas for exploratory urbanism. He studied architecture at Westminster in London, UK achieving distinction for his work. www.fortysevendesign.com joshua craze once thought that an anthropologist must act much like a geologist. If the latter sees the peregrinations of the years in the strata of the rock, the former was to do the same for human beings, and see the way the centuries accumulate in our practices and languages, like ruins. www.joshuacraze.com dora p crouch is retired, Professor Emerita of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the author of a long and critical list of books on architecture and geology, ancient water systems and settlement traditions. She currently lives in San Diego and gives credit to Kingswood/Cranbrook in Michigan where in high school she learned to work academically. vanessa eickhoff is an Associate and Landscape Architect at PLANT Architect Inc. She is currently project manager at PLANT Architect for Nathan Phillips Square Revitalisation in Toronto, Ontario. karianne halse , cand. arch. Currently teaching at the BA.program, Unit 2+3D ‘Atmospheric Laboratory, at Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark, which she graduated from in January 2012. www.karianne-h.dk mail@karianne-h.dk louis helbig (MSc, London School of Economics) is an artist and social commentator, best known for his aerial documentation of the oil sands. beautifuldestruction.ca His photographs of the lost villages of the St Lawrence appeared in On Site 27 . sunkenvillages.ca louishelbig.com mary kavanagh is an associate professor of visual art in the Department of Art at the University of Lethbridge. She maintains her studio and research practice in Lethbridge, Alberta. www.marykavanagh.ca ted landrum has practised and taught architecture in the US and Canada. He is currently building a collection of archi-poems called Midway Radicals . For more archi-poems see Quality Out of Control (Routledge) and umanitoba.ca/schools/art/ted_landrum_o1 clinton langevin and amy norris are Toronto-based architects, currently captivated by the problems and potential of our industrial heritage. chester rennie is a Toronto-based landscape and urban designer. michael j leeb is a visual artist (University of Lethbridge, Fine Arts) and currently the Writer-in-Residence, Gushul Writer’s Cottage in Blairmore, Alberta where he is at work on a poetry project. jleeb@telusplanet.net thomas mical is a US-trained design researcher, currently an Associate Professor of Architecture at University of Southern Australia. His teaching and research examines architectural theory, uncanny landscapes and media-philosphy. douglas moffat explores the relationship between sound and the constructed landscape, to create spaces built for listening. Trained in landscape architecture, sculpture and architecture history, his work mixes field recordings, electroacoustics and sculptural processes with the methods of contemporary landscape design. shane neill is a designer and cellist. His current endeavours examine antagonisms on the U S -Mexico border, seeking to undermine the border as a power apparatus and recasting it as a space of appearance . www. shaneneill.com giulia piana graduated in Architecture at Sapienza, Università di Roma. She is based in Rome and Paris, focussing her interests in the landscape and geology of these cities. giulia.piana@gmail.com www.giuliapiana.com nick sowers is an architect based in San Francisco. He is the founder of Soundscrapers, where he practices the construction of space with sound and 2x4s. His architectural work seeks the sonic sublime. www.soundscrapers.com greg stone is a Master’s student in Sustainable Development at Uppsala University, Sweden, where he thinks about sustainable urban planning. He also thinks about street art, bottom-up city development, and South American psychedelic cumbia. dustin valen is an intern architect and graduate of the John H Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design where he completed the thesis: Something Smells; Sympathies between Design and Waste Management Practices . dustin.valen@gmail.com bradford watson is an architect and assistant professor in the School of Architecture at Montana State University in Bozeman. www.bradfordawatson.com trent workman is a graduate student in Landscape Architecture at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. He is interested in the intersection of time, process and mapping in the practice of landscape architecture. stephanie white is the editor of On Site review . Her 40,000 thoughts on geology can be seen at www.onsitereview.ca/miscellanea/tag/geology
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