on site review 20: archives + museums fall/winter 2008/9
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Mark Baechler is an architect and sessional lecturer at the University of Toronto Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design . Neeraj Bhatia is an architect and urban designer, founding member of The Open Workshop and adjunct assistant professor at the University of Toronto. Ella Chmielewska, urbanist, designer and photographer teaches cultural studies at the University of Edinburgh. Steve Chodoriwsky is living in Tokyo. Nicole Dextras , a photographer and installation artist, teaches at Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver, and will be in Dawson City, Yukon in an arts residency in December 2008 Jordan Ellis is still young and wide-eyed in the world of architecture. At HOK in Toronto he is learning how to focus. Gerald Forseth (BArch Toronto 1970) MAAA, FRAIC is an architect (Gerald L. Forseth Architects Ltd in Calgary), planner, researcher, traveller, teacher, lecturer, writer, photographer, curator, dreamer and (professional) volunteer. Dominique Hurth and Ciarán Walsh are two artists and researchers based in Ber- lin whose practices include archiving, object making, media and writing. They co-write the Berlin art-review blog, Paramnesia Berlin: www.paramnesiaberlin.wordpress.com contact: paramnesia.berlin@gmail.com Jaclyn Heather Jones (jjones85@slu.edu) is a doctoral student in the Department of American Studies at Saint Louis University. Her work blends social history and visual culture studies to explore how disenfranchised groups combat cultural marginalisation. Miriam Jordan and Julian Jason Haladyn are doctoral students at The University of Western Ontario, where they also teach visual arts. Michael Leeb , photographer, visual artist and historian, lives in Claresholm Alberta Jana Macalik (MArch Dalhousie) specializes in spatial communication, and since 1994 has been designing cultural exhibitions and branded environments. She teaches at the School of Interior Design, Ryerson University. Joseph Masco is the author of The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico (2006, Princeton University Press). He teaches courses on science, secu- rity and American society at the University of Chicago. Dru McKeown is a designer currently living and working in Cleveland, Ohio who would give anything for a good bookstore with an art/design section. www.toistudio.com Crystal Melville has explored Canada from coast to coast. For the past five years she has lived in Halifax’s north end district, completing a degree in Social Anthropology and has participated in community development and arts projects. Mariana Mogilevich is at work on a video about the botanical garden, Rio: 141 Hectáreas . She is a PhD candidate at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Farid Noufaily (MArch Waterloo) splits his time teaching at Waterloo and working in Toronto. In 2008 he received the OAA Guild Medal for his MArch thesis (House of Reconciliation). His current interest focuses on walls and barriers: physical, social and theoretical. farid.noufaily@gmail.com Aisling O’Carroll , currently studying at the University of Waterloo, School of Archi- tecture, has an interest in landscape and urbanism, strongly influenced by experience in northern Ontario and an appreciation for the natural landscape and networks within it. Peter Osborne , an architect practicing in Edmonton Alberta, visited the Ara Pacis Museum in 2007. He can be reached at peter.osborne@stantec.com. Tonkao Panin is an architect in Bangkok, Thailand. Gregory M Perkins is currently working in Toronto while completing his Masters degree at the University of Waterloo. His interests focus on the mechanical, spatial, and sociological aspects of re-inventing urban transportation. gregoryperkins@gmail.com Gregory Beck Rubin and Conrad Dueck recently moved to Montreal. Gregory is a University of Manitoba student completing his M. Arch in collaboration with Hexagram/ Concordia (typegregory.blogspot.com). Conrad is at work on a young adult novel. Tanya Southcott (MArch Waterloo) is now an intern architect living and working in Vancouver. Dwayne Smyth trained as an architect and works with the interplay of light and shadow in both man-made environments and the natural landscape. A blending of the ephemeral and permanent is an underlying theme of his current exploratory work. Michael Summerton is an urbanist from London, living in Toronto and currently working in Accra, Ghana. Jen VanderBurgh is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Film and Media at Queen’s University. Stephanie White lives in Calgary and is editor of On Site. Matt Williams is a landscape architect at O2 Planning and Design Inc, Calgary. Matthew Woodruff and Clinton Cuddington are principals in Measured Architecture based in Vancouver. www.measured.ca or info@measured.ca
front cover : Nicole Dextras: this photo is from an art residency at the Gibraltar Centre for the Arts on Toronto Island in 2007 www.nicoledextras.com
back cover : Jen VanderBurgh: an image from Home Movies, this issue, p 46
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