The John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, to move next year from their current home at Huron and College to a restored and expanded facility at Spadina and College, has announced its public programming for 2014-15. This year's public lectures will focus on the range of different approaches taken by architects, landscape architects, urban designers, artists, scholars, and others who are designing structures and spaces, while tackling the challenges facing our cities and landscapes. Each lecture will provide students, alumni, and members of the public with access and insight into the work of architects and visitors to the Faculty from around the world.

The new U of T Daniels Faculty of Architecture under reconstruction at 1 Spadina Crescent, image by Jimmy Wu

The Daniels Faculty’s public programming will be presented in various series, including bulthaup lectures, Daniels Sessions, and the Building Ecology, Science and Technology (B.E.S.T.) Lecture series. The Daniels Fora series also returns with insight into architecture and the changing conceptions of home. Public lectures got under way yesterday with a bulthaup lecture presented by Danish architect Ole Schrøder from TREDJE NATUR, the firm that designed the world’s first climate-adapted neighborhood in Copenhagen.

The lectures will return on October 7 with Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, a pioneer in the field of landscape architecture, in conversation with Susan Herrington, who recently released a book highlighting Oberlander’s work. Other speakers include Brazilian architect Carla Juaçaba, who will present this year’s Kohn Shnier Architects Lecture; Patricia Patkau of Patkau Architects in Vancouver, who will present this year’s George Baird Lecture; Daniels alumnus Jimenez Lai of the firm Bureau Spectacular, who is presenting a bulthaup Lecture; and the Daniels Faculty’s own Shane Williamson, whose firm Williamson Chong received an Emerging Voices Award and Emerging Architectural Practice award earlier this year.

In the upcoming Daniels Sessions, speakers will include those immersed in practice or research in architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and visual studies, and will take place in Room 103 at 230 College Street from 1:00 - 2:00pm. 

The Building, Ecology, Science and Technology (B.E.S.T) lecture series will focus on specialized topics of interest to the design profession, with speeches from leading researchers and practitioners in related fields of work. Each B.E.S.T. lecture qualifies for 2 hours of Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) Structured Learning Credits. The lectures take place on Thursday evenings from 6:30-8:00pm in Room 103 and are followed by a reception.