TIME: 5:45 PM - 6:45 PM
The last event of the Winter 2025 Laurentian Architecture Lecture Series is scheduled for Monday Mar.24 at 5:45 pm in the Lecture Hall. The guest will be Tura Cousins Wilson (SOCA, Toronto, ON). This lecture is presented by the OAA. It is free and open to all.
Tura Cousins is a licensed architect in both Ontario and the Netherlands. He is a cofounding principal of the Studio of Contemporary Architecture (SOCA) and a founding member of the Black Architects and Interior Designers Association in Canada (BAIDA). He also currently is a sessional instructor at UofT and TMU. Tura is inspired by creating uplifting spaces of beauty and contends that architecture’s power lies in its ability to transform collective imaginations and narratives into reality. Tura’s design methodology leverages site and cultural research and is drawn towards the redemptive qualities of reconstituting existing buildings, overlooked communities.