Outer space 9:00 - 10:30am Friday June 15th

Alexander Louis Temporale
Architect, ATA Architect, Inc.
“ The Shadow of High-Rise in the Garden City”

The shadow of the high-rise has been cast across Oakville, the Garden City. Without vision, the need for intensification has been interpreted as high-rise development. What appear to be sacrificed are the human essentials. Ten urban design principles are outlined that foster a more Livable City.

Alex Temporale, principal of ATA Architect Inc, is a graduate of the University of Toronto and was recently honoured as a “Fellow” of the RAIC. He has authored numerous urban design and heritage planning studies, beginning with the study of Ontario’s first heritage district – Historic Meadowvale. Because of his extensive background in heritage conservation; particularly in historic downtowns, Mr. Temporale has been a lecturer, resource consultant, expert witness, heritage planner and LACAC chairman. He has prepared urban design and streetscape guidelines for various Municipalities including Mississauga, Burlington, Brampton, Oakville and Brantford.

Chris Hardwicke
Associate, Sweeny Sterling Finlayson & Co Architects
“ Ravine City and Farm City”

Mr. Hardwicke will speak about two exciting proposals: ‘Farm City’, a project that creates agricultural area inside new housing towers, and produces living and growing space in a dense vertical format – and ‘Ravine City’, a proposed urban ecosystem of collective housing that restores and enhances the ravine system of Toronto. Both models attempt to renew our connection to our natural resources.

Chris has always pursued the clarity of big ideas. As an associate at Sweeny Sterling Finlayson & Co Architects, Chris is in charge of city building projects such as the Toronto Waterfront Projects, the Toronto Gateway Project, and the Waterfront Master Plan for Kaohsiung, Taiwan. His visionary ideas and projects have been presented at the Milan Furniture Fair, Grand Central Station, the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, Doors of Perception 07 in India and published in the books The Good Life: New Spaces for Recreation and uTOpia: Towards a New Toronto.

Ian Chodikoff
Architect; Editor, Canadian Architect magazine
“ Fringe Benefits: Cosmopolitan Dynamics of a Multicultural City”

This presentation will address an historical account of the growth of suburban communities, and a documentation of the informal urbanism being undertaken by vibrant ethnic and cultural communities. It will also look at contemporary responses by leading Canadian architects who are responding to the expanding definition of a suburban community.

Ian Chodikoff is an architect and the editor of Canadian Architect magazine. He has undertaken projects ranging from the relationship between the natural and man-made influences of Vancouver’s Stanley Park to the effects of transnational migration. Since May 2006, he has helped facilitate a series of charrettes and presentations with the City of Toronto and the Design Exchange with the goal of improving the built environment of several priority neighbourhoods across Toronto. As an affiliate of the Institute for International Urban Development in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ian will be leading a team in Nairobi, Kenya during the fall of 2007 to study the effects of migration and land markets. Ian has lectured in various schools and cities across North America and has written in a variety of magazines and journals on issues ranging from planning and sustainability.