The University of Waterloo School of Architecture is pleased to announce that Kearon Roy Taylor will join the faculty this fall as Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, beginning a two-year term.
Roy Taylor is a designer, researcher, and organizer whose work spans exhibition, practice, and pedagogy. Their research is rooted in architecture’s territorial ambitions and the political economy of contemporary urbanism. Most recently, Roy Taylor held fellowships at SUNY Buffalo as the Peter Reyner Banham Fellow (2023–24) and at Northeastern University in Boston as a Design Research and Teaching Fellow (2024–25).
As a former Associate Partner at Lateral Office, Roy Taylor led design on projects ranging from built work in Canada’s far North, developed in partnership with Indigenous communities, to internationally recognized exhibitions, including the Seoul Architecture Biennale (2017), Oslo Triennale (2019), Venice Biennale (2021), Exhibit Columbus (2021), and Tallinn Architecture Biennale (2022). Lateral Office’s first major built project, the Qaujigiartiit Health Research Centre in Iqaluit, NU, received a Canadian Architect Award of Merit in 2023.
Originally from Northern Ontario’s Shield landscape, Roy Taylor has taught at the University of Toronto’s John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. Their work has been recognized with two ACSA Faculty Design Awards (2022, 2024), a Silver Medal from the Holcim-Lafarge Foundation (2023), and the RAIC Student Medal. As an organizer, they co-stewarded The Architecture Lobby’s Tkaronto chapter and contributed to the collaborative mapping project countermap.land, which documents racist and colonial spaces across “Canada.”
The School of Architecture is excited to welcome Roy Taylor and looks forward to the contributions they will bring to our academic and creative community.
