Kearon Roy Taylor

Kearon Roy Taylor is a designer, researcher, and organizer. A Peter Reyner Banham Fellow at SUNY Buffalo (2023-4) and later Design Research and Teaching Fellow at Northeastern University in Boston (2024-5), their work spanning exhibition and practice is grounded in architecture’s territorial ambitions and the political economy of contemporary urbanism.

As former Associate Partner at Lateral Office, they served as design lead on projects ranging from built work in Canada’s far North in partnership with Indigenous communities, to multiple international exhibitions (Seoul Architecture Biennale 2017, Oslo Triennale 2019, Venice Biennale 2021, Exhibit Columbus 2021, and Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2022). Lateral Office’s first major built work, the Qaujigiartiit Health Research Centre in Iqaluit, NU, was honoured with a Canadian Architect Award of Merit (2023).

Hailing from the Shield landscape of Northern Ontario, Roy Taylor has also taught at the John H. Daniels School of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto. An RIAC Student Medalist, Roy Taylor’s work with Lateral Office has also been honoured with two ACSA Faculty Design Awards (2022, 2024) and a Silver Medal from the Holcim-Lafarge Foundation (2023). As organiser, they served as co-steward of The Architecture Lobby’s Tkaronto chapter, where they were engaged in the creation of the collaborative mapping project countermap.land for documenting racist and colonial spaces in “Canada.”

• ARCH 110 - Visual and Digital Media 1
  • Taught in 2025
• ARCH 692 - Thesis Research and Design Studio I
  • Taught in 2025
• PDARCH 1 - Portfolio Development
  • Taught in 2025

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