Arriscraft Canada Brick Speaker Series, Fall 2024

Thursday, September 26, 2024
6:00 pm, Cummings Lecture Theatre

Chana Haouzi, AIA, Architecture for Public Benefit

Chana is the founder of Architecture for Public Benefit, a design practice dedicated to solving the unique challenges of mission-driven organizations and nonprofits. She has worked with the Boston Public Library, More Than Words social enterprise, and youth-led organizations such as Aaron’s Presents and YouthBuild Boston. Chana was a Rose Fellow at the City of Boston’s Department of Neighborhood Development and developed innovative initiatives to increase housing affordability and access. Her projects included piloting the Additional Dwelling Unit ADU 2.0 program, streamlining the city’s permitting process, and supporting the department’s design review. Prior to her fellowship, Chana worked at Peter Rose + Partners where she led projects from design through to construction. With over ten years of professional and teaching experience, Chana has been collaborating with her students to push and question the boundaries of what design can do.

Ozayr Saloojee, Carleton University

Ozayr (b. Johannesburg, South Africa) is a Professor of Architecture at Carleton University in Ottawa, a co-director of the Carleton Urban ResearchLab, cross-appointed faculty at the university’s Institute for African Studies and affiliate faculty in Carleton’s Center for the Study of Islam.

Chiyi Tam, Toronto Chinatown Land Trust

Chiyi (she/her) is an urban planner and anti-displacement organizer practicing in Tkaronto's Kensington-Chinatown neighbourhood. Chiyi is the managing director of the recently established Toronto Chinatown Land Trust. She was recognised as an Early Career Canadian Urban Leader by School of Cities. Her goal is to reciprocate knowledge and wealth into community ownership.

Moderated by Linda Zhang.

Thursday, October 24, 2024
6:00 pm, Cummings Lecture Theatre

Kongjian Yu, Turenscape

Kongjian Yu received his Doctor of Design Degree at Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1995 with a dissertation titled ‘Security Patterns in Landscape Planning.’ He then practiced as a landscape planner and designer for two years with the SWA Group in the US before he returned to China in 1997. Since then, he has been a professor of landscape architecture, and urban and regional planning. He founded and has been leading the Graduate School of Landscape Architecture, and the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at Peking University.

Moderated by Adrian Blackwell.

Friday, November 1, 2024
6:30 pm, Cummings Lecture Theatre

Rosa Chang (BES '96, BARCH ’99), Gotham Park

Rosa is a downtown NYC resident for 25 years and a community advocate with a focus on public space, youth and education, and community cohesiveness.  As Co-founder and President of Gotham Park, Rosa hopes to unlock a singular space where we can all share, learn, grow and thrive.

Moderated by Camille Mitchell (MArch ’09, BArch ’06)

Thursday, November 21, 2024
6:00 pm, Cummings Lecture Theatre

Mae-ling Lokko, Yale School of Architecture

Mae-ling Lokko is an architectural scientist, designer and educator focused on the intersectoral design and research of biobased materials to drive ecological health and generative justice goals. She is an Assistant Professor at Yale School of Architecture where she teaches environmental design and on the history and contemporary design of biobased building technologies. At Yale’s Center for Ecosystems in Architecture, she directs doctoral research on the whole life cycle development, distributed infrastructures design and policy around non-toxic, low-carbon materials.

Moderated by Jane Mah Hutton