The Twenty + Change 03 curatorial committee who selected the projects to be included in the upcoming exhibition and publication, is comprised of the following noted practicing professionals, authors and educators working in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design.

CURATORIAL COMMITTEE

Marc Boutin is the founder of The Marc Boutin Architectural Collaborative Inc. in Calgary, a research-based critical practice with an inter-disciplinary approach to design through the synthesis of art, architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture. The work of the firm has been recognised by national and international awards, competition wins, exhibitions, and publications, including the 2002 Canada Council Prix de Rome. Marc is a professor at the Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary, teaching architecture and urban design studios in the graduate architecture program.  His teaching there has been recognized by many university teaching and research awards.

Renée Daoust is a principal of the firm Daoust Lestage Inc., an architecture and urban design firm in Montreal concerned with design at every scale, from the city to the object. The firm has been recognized with numerous provincial, national and international urban design and architecture awards. Renée is a member of the CCA Development Committee in Montreal, and has played a critical role as a member of the master planning team for Ryerson University in Toronto.  In recent years she has served as a member of the Toronto Waterfront Design Review Panel and as President of the Board of the Festival international des Jardins de Métis.  

Miyoko Ohtake is an editor at Dwell Media in San Francisco, California. She writes and edits articles for Dwell and Dwell.com about modern architecture and design, with specific interests in sustainable building, backyards and green spaces, and the intersection of food and design. Ohtake studied architecture at the University of Toronto before earning a master’s degree in journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. She has also written for Wired and Newsweek, among others. 

Larry Wayne Richards is Professor Emeritus and former Dean in the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto. Previously he was Director of the Waterloo School of Architecture. He is an accomplished and prolific curator, writer, editor, critic, and professional advisor for design competitions. Prof. Richards has edited and written numerous books and authored over fifty articles published in journals such as Architecture New York, Domus, Canadian Architect, Canadian Art, INSITE, Azure, and Parachute.  He has received numerous awards, including a national Award of Excellence (Advocate Award) from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. Since 2009 Richards has been Artistic Director of Toronto-based WORKshop, Inc.

Talbot Sweetapple is a partner at MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects in Halifax, where he concentrates on medium to large scale public architecture projects which have won numerous awards and appeared in many international publications. Talbot is an Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Architecture where he teaches design and technology studios. He has also taught at Syracuse University, the University of Arkansas and in 2004, along with Brian Mackay-Lyons, was appointed to the Ruth and Norman Moore Chair at Washington University at St. Louis.

TWENTY + CHANGE DIRECTORS

Heather Dubbeldam is the Principal of Dubbeldam Design Architects, a multi-disciplinary architecture practice in Toronto. The firm has been recognized with several awards including the OAA 2008 Best Emerging Practice award, and has been published in local, national and international publications. Heather plays an active role in the design and architecture community: as Co-Director of Twenty + Change, promoting emerging architecture and design practices across Canada; as Co-Chair of the Toronto Society of Architects; and as a Director of the Design Industry Advisory Committee, a provincial not-for-profit, cross-disciplinary design think tank and research group. She was co-editor of the award-winning TSA Toronto Architecture Guide Map and co-editor, with Lola Sheppard, of the Twenty + Change 01 & 02 publications.

Lola Sheppard is Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo, School of Architecture. She is a Partner at Lateral Office, and a Director of InfraNet Lab. Lateral Office was the recipient in 2011 Emerging Voices Award and the 2005 Young Architects Forum from the Architectural League of New York and was awarded the 2010 Prix de Rome from the Canada Council for the Arts. Lola recently co-authored Coupling: Strategies for Infrastructural Opportunism (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011) and she is co-editor of the upcoming Bracket 2: Soft Systems (Actar, 2011). She is also co-editor, with Heather Dubbeldam, of the Twenty + Change 01 & 02 publications. She is currently pursuing research and design work on architecture, infrastructure and urbanism in Canada’s far North.