Joe Lobko
PARTNER, DTAH
Architect and urban designer Joe Lobko was the 2020 recipient of the G. Randy Roberts Service Award from the OAA. In 2006, he joined DTAH as a partner with the merger of his own practice, and in the same year he received an urban leadership award from the Canadian Urban Institute and became a fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. In 2012, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Sustainable Buildings Canada. His experience includes a 13-year-long stint teaching architecture at the University of Toronto and extensive involvement as a volunteer for various community initiatives.
While chairing the Toronto Society of Architects from 2001 to 2004, Joe spearheaded the TSA Guide Map of Contemporary Architecture, a team project that served as a catalyst for the public to explore the city and understand its built environment. In his closing year as TSA Chair, Lobko sent then-mayor David Miller a letter cum urban manifesto called “Toward a Clean and Beautiful City Initiative–10 Suggestions,” which helped shape Toronto’s contemporary policy toolkit for design excellence, helping bring forth innovative policies like the Toronto Green Development Standards and the City of Toronto Design Review Panel, on which he continues to serve.
Diana Osborne
ARCHITECT, OSBORNE ARCHITECT
Cory Stechyshyn
CHAIR, NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS
Having attended both a technical college and university architecture program, Cory Stechyshyn has acquired a broad-scope education in architecture while gaining a wide range of project experience in a diverse number of building types. He graduated with a diploma in architectural design technology in 1982, a degree in Environmental Studies in 1987, and a Diploma of Architecture with the RAIC Syllabus Program in 2005. Cory was a partner with his predecessor firm for seven years prior to opening his own practice, i4 Architecture, in 2014. With more than 12 years of experience managing an architectural practice, Cory has gained over 30 years of combined work experience in the architectural profession.
Cory has also been an active member of the Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) Construction Contract Administration Committee since 2013, acting as Chair for the committee a year prior to it being re-visioned as the new Practice Resource Committee, developing web content and resources related to the practice of architecture for its members and the public. Cory is the chair of the Northwestern Ontario Society of Architects and resides in his hometown of Thunder Bay.
Susan Speigel
OAA PRESIDENT