on site 27 spring 2012
contributors: rural urbanism
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allen + maurer , drawn to the less trampled, have developed a working method that aims to reduce trampling everywhere. chris allen grew up in a small logging village on Adams Lake, BC, and florian maurer fled Munich the day after graduating from architecture school for the Canadian north. www.allenmaurer.com heather asquith is an architect in Toronto. She grew up in the small town of Keswick, Ontario. heather.asquith@sympatico.ca piper bernbaum , from Calgary, was influenced by local arts and indigenous culture. Currently completing her Bachelor of Architectural Studies (Hons) at Waterloo, her interests lie in community-based design and cultural research and preservation. www.piperbernbaum.com fraser plaxton , completing his BArch at the University of Waterloo, grew up in Toronto, but has always possessed a keen fascination for remote conditions and traditional cultures. fraser_plaxton11@hotmail.com joshua craze grew up in a small Welsh village. He has since been trying to find his way back. www.joshuacraze.com [Not a rural village]. giulio petrocco is an Italian photojournalist, recently shortlisted for the Prix Bayeux-Calvados for War Correspondents with his essay ‘Yemeni Revolution’. www.giuliopetrocco.com lisa dietrich grew up in the boondocks of Germany but is currently living, working and exploring (in) Toronto. She is interested in the context and connection of things, people, places and how we perceive these. www.lisadietrich.de terence gower , a Canadian artist living in New York City, works on post-war architecture and urbanism and has shown his installations and videos in museums, biennials and film festivals around the world. He grew up in Vernon, BC. ilona hay is a director of Texere Studio and teaches at the University of Kent. She is an architect, educated at Dalhousie, originally from Vancouver. georgia laganakou , originally from Kalamata, Greece, is a Part II architectural assistant in the UK with an MA in Sustainability and Design. kenneth hayes is an architectural historian who recently completed a doctoral dissertation in Ankara, Turkey. He grew up in Dowling, a town of 3,000 people forty kilometres north of Sudbury. isabelle hayeur lives and work in Montreal. Growing up in a suburb, she was faced with the spectacle of urban sprawl and the disappearance of so many things in its path. isabelle-hayeur.com louis helbig (MSc, London School of Economics) grew up in Williams Lake, BC. He is an artist and social commentator. louishelbig.com beautifuldestruction.ca sunkenvillages.ca lisa hirmer is a principal at the research collective DodoLab, a photographer/artist/writer based in Guelph, and has an MArch from the University of Waterloo. She grew up in Aurora, Ontario. www.dodo lab.ca miriam ho is an architectural designer. She grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, where her imagination fled to landscapes of fiction and wilderness. ivan hernandez quintela graduated from the School of Architecture at the University of Texas, Austin. In Mexico City, 2002, he established ludens as a spatial practice focussed on the potential of play. www.ludens.com.mx thomas kohlwien grew up in Bruck an der Mur, Austria and studied Urbanistics in Vienna. Exploring the relationship between architecture and literature, his work includes mapping projects in New York and Sydney. www.tkhome.net david murray is an architect in Edmonton, Alberta. He specialises in conservation architecture and heritage resource management, and was raised in small town Port Hope, Ontario. www. davidmurrayarchitect.ca jason j price is an independent documentary filmmaker and PhD candidate in anthropology at UC, Berkeley. víctor muñoz sanz (Architect’06, ETSA Madrid; MAUD’11, Harvard GSD) established Sanz-Serif in 2010. He is involved in the development of the South America Project, and current PhD research focuses on the Bata satellite towns. jeff schnabel is an Assistant Professor in Architecture at Portland State University. He is grateful for his wonderful Hardy County West Virginia clients and the cream pies that were a part of most meetings. corey schnobrich works for Bohlin Cywinski Jackson in San Francisco and grew up in New Ulm, Minnesota. stacy farr is an architectural historian in the San Francisco Bay Area and grew up in Glenside, Pennsylvania. dana seguin is a Toronto-based designer associated with the Toronto Free Gallery and The Institute Without Boundaries. chris katsarov luna is a documentary photographer and photojournalist. Subjects include: work and civil society, conflict and identity, and themes in international development. luna.photoshelter.com leigh sherkin is the director of the urban planning company, specialising in community planning and regeneration. leighsherkin@theurbanplanningcompany.com michael taylor , city boy from Toronto, is an M.Arch candidate at UBC, has studied at Queen’s University and at the Architectural Association. At BIG he completed several research projects on Copenhagen and is currently working at Buro-Ole Scheeren in Beijing. nicole la hausse de lalouviere , an M.Arch student at UBC, recently researched disturbed sites and landscapes while at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and is now working for MAD Architects, Beijing. She is from Tamarin, a surfing village in Mauritius. stephanie white is the editor of On Site review , lives in Calgary, grew up first in Victoria, then Nanaimo, BC. shannon wiley holds an MArch from the University of Toronto, where she became interested in adaptive rural architecture. She currently practices architecture in Toronto. Shannon.wiley@gmail.com www.shannonwiley.com jane wong and saeran vasanthakumar are frequent research collaborators and are graduates of the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. www.janew.com and www.saeranv.blogspot.com sarah zollinger lives in a perfectly Nova Scotian ocean village. Her businesses, Shelter Design Co. and Rose&Rooster Bakery, are just two of ways she is working towards really/fully/completely living in the country.
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