TIME: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Session Abstract:
Design Competitions provide an effective way to generate innovative solutions to the critical issues of our time. Three approaches will be presented that demonstrate their value in reshaping communities:
1) Three decades of architecture competitions in Québec: an inspiring program.
2) The recently completed competition for the site revitalization of the OAA HQ.
3) The significant impact of Ideas Competitions sponsored by Urbanarium; a Vancouver based charity.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understanding the value of design competitions.
- Understanding the range of approaches possible with competitions.
- How to encourage their use and their ongoing evolution.
- How to deliver a successful design competition process.
About the Speakers:
Joe Lobko, OAA, FRAIC
A Toronto based architect with a practice focus on community revitalization, Joe has led the organization of a number of design competitions over the years including: the TSA Ideas Competition for the Toronto Waterfront (2000), an affordable housing design competition to initiate the Regent Park renewal (2005), a competition focused on the design of a net-zero carbon tall-timber academic building, now called Limberlost Place, for George Brown College on Toronto’s waterfront (2018), and a two-stage international competition to design a new home for the Nova Scotia Art Gallery on the Halifax waterfront (2020). Joe also recently served as Professional Advisor for the 2024 OAA HQ Landscape Design Competition.
Odile Hénault, a graduate of Nova Scotia Technical College (now Dalhousie University), is well known for her writings on architectural and urban issues. In 1983, she founded Section a, one of Canada’s foremost architectural magazines, which she single-handedly produced until 1986. During the following three years, she lived in Barcelona, Spain, where she wrote a series of articles for newspapers and specialized magazines such as L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, Architecture, and Architectural Record. She also produced a quadrilingual Guide to Barcelona’s Urban Spaces.
Back in Canada, she published Montreal’s first Design Guide. In the early 90s, she was elected on the Board of Quebec’s professional association (OAQ), along with a new generation of creative architects. In 1994, she became OAQ’s president. She used her position to actively promote awards of excellence programs as well as architectural competitions. In the following years, she headed a design school first in Bogotá (Columbia), and later in Manila (Philippines). She also worked in Washington, as the head of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).
Odile Hénault was a guest lecturer in several schools of architecture, across Canada and in the US. She edited and produced two books, one on Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion and another one on Montreal’s Pointe-à-Callière Museum. More recently, she wrote an essay published in Canadian Modern Architecture, 1967 to the present (Princeton Architectural Press). For the last fifteen years, her articles on Québec architecture and urban design have appeared on a regular basis in The Canadian Architect.
Amy Nugent (she/they) is the Executive Director of Urbanarium, a non-profit that provides a platform for the discussion of ideas and issues about the planning and design of communities, and produce's Canada's only affordable housing challenge series. Decoding Timber Towers is the fourth in Urbanarium's open design ideas competition series and the third that Amy has run. She is the founder of The Sculpture Fund at Art Gallery of Ontario and serves as a board member for the Environmental Youth Alliance. A sixth-generation Irish settler who grew up on Algonquin territory in Ontario, she has lived as an uninvited guest on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations in Vancouver for 20 years.
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