UNIVERSITY
OF
TORONTO
TORONTO
Alissa
North
is
the
Director
of
the
Master
of
Landscape
Architecture
Program
in
the
John
H.
Daniels
Faculty
of
Architecture,
Landscape,
and
Design
at
the
University
of
Toronto,
where
she
is
an
Associate
Professor.
Alissa
is
the
author
of Operative
Landscapes:
Building
Communities
Through
Public
Space (Birkhäuser:
2013),
for
which
she
was
awarded
the
OALA
2014
Research
and
Innovation
award,
and
of
“Processing
Downsview
Park:
transforming
a
theoretical
diagram
to
master
plan
and
construction
reality”
in
the Journal
of
Landscape
Architecture.
She
is
also
a
Founding
Partner
of
North
Design
Office,
a
Toronto
based
landscape
architecture
practice.
The
office
is
committed
to
the
idea
that
well-designed
urban
environments
and
open
spaces
create
vibrant
communities
and
ecologies.
North
Design
Office
has
been
awarded
and
published
internationally
through
their
competition
proposals
and
public
space
installations.
The
Toronto-based
office
was
established
in
2005
in
partnership
with
Pete
North,
and
draws
from
the
partners’
expertise
in
research
and
theory
to
solve
challenging
urban
issues,
and
develop
inventive
approaches
to
designing
the
built
environment.