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MOTHER’S DAY

When my mother graduated from McGill’s School of Architecture in 1973, her class set a record for the number of women that convocated. From the 60 students that started with her, 43 finished the degree; of those, nine 21 percent were women.

Women’s rights in Canada, particularly the rights of mothers, were still nascent at that time. Until 1971, Manitoba fired women municipal employees who married; pregnancy was considered a valid basis for layoff or dismissal in the Canada Labour Code until 1978. Two years after that, Public Service Alliance of Canada workers for the federal government went on strike for better maternity leave provisions, resulting in an increase from six weeks to three months of leave after having a child. (This came too late for my mother, who was working in property management for the federal government when she had me.)

It was a hard time for women to make their way in architecture a field dominated by male architects. And although things have improved, there is still much progress to be made. In 1975, women earned 60 cents for each dollar made by men. As of 2019, accounting for wages, salaries and commissions, Canadian women still made just 71 cents to every dollar earned by Canadian men. While women now match (or outnumber) men in architecture classes, as they do in pursuing university degrees in general, the pay gap persists: Canadian women who graduate with a bachelor’s degree earn an average of $69,063 annually, while men with a bachelor’s earn $97,761.

Parental leave benefits in Canada are luxurious compared to what’s available in the United States. But for many households, earning a maximum of $390 a week over 18 months means a sharp tightening of household budgets particularly if a young family is living in a city with unaffordable housing relative to average household earnings, like Toronto or Vancouver.

Added to this are concerns about career advancement, in a field where internship and studying for licensing exams is a major undertaking. For many women in architecture, it can make for challenging decisions about when and even if to start a family.

To Canada’s credit, there is continual progress being made in parental benefits. When I had my child about six years ago, my husband took six months of unpaid paternity leave a decision unprecedented in the architecture firm where he worked. Now, federal parental leave is mandated to be shared between the two parents with a “use it or lose it” five weeks reserved for the second parent (in most cases, the father). This has lasting benefits for the family, and for the mother: men who take paternity leave are more likely to be involved in childcare in the future.

Organizations such as Building Equity in Architecture Toronto (BEAT) are also helping to level the playing field, by creating community-building, networking, and mentorship opportunities focused on women. I sit on BEAT’s advisory committee, and according to its mission statement, the volunteer-run organization “believe[s] that empowering women in the design community improves and enriches the practice of architecture, the quality of the built environment, and ultimately, the human experience.”

“My women architect friends, they all worked hard,” my mother told me. Of her classmates, three started their own practices and one became an executive in a large international firm. As a women, and a mother, I’m now privileged to have greater access to opportunities in the world of architecture, built largely on the success of these and other women of my mother’s generation. So this one’s for you, mom: happy Mother’s Day.

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Projects

St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts design competition winner announced

Hariri Pontarini Architects, LMN A rchitects, Tawaw Architecture Collective, Smoke Architecture, and SLA have been announced as the winning team for the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts (STLC) design competition.

The winning design to reimagine the STLC is called Transparence, and features a high-performance transparent façade that wraps the existing structure, a landmark performing arts theatre in the heart of Toronto’s St. Lawrence neighbourhood.

Many aspects of the design allude to Indigenous traditions, including an exterior inspired by the role of Wampum belts in storytelling, artistry and craft, and a circular ceremonial fire at Front and Scott Streets.

The new STLC is composed of the main stage theatre, acoustic hall, rehearsal/multipurpose rooms, artist-in-residence studios, media studios, child minding space, front-ofhouse public spaces, front-of-house support, back-of-house, outdoor spaces and significant improvements to the public realm.

Five shortlisted design teams publicly presented their designs at the STLC on Tuesday, March 7 to more than 300 attendees in the venue’s Jane Mallett Theatre and a further 600 who participated online. The design sub- missions were judged by the jury on March 8. The winning submission will be presented to the Executive Committee and Toronto City Council in Q3, 2023. stlcnext.org

Awards

Pritzker Prize awarded to British architect David Chipperfield

Civic architect, urban planner and activist, Sir David Alan Chipperfield has been selected as the 2023 Laureate of The Pritzker Architecture Prize.

Chipperfield’s built works, spanning over four decades, are expansive in typology and geography, including over one hundred works ranging from civic, cultural and academic buildings to residences and urban masterplanning throughout Asia, Europe and North America.

The 2023 Jury Citation of the Laureate, states, in part, “This commitment to an architecture of understated but transformative civic presence and the definition even through private commissions of the public realm, is done always with austerity, avoiding unnecessary moves and steering clear of trends and fashions, all of which is a most relevant message to our contemporary society. Such a capacity to distill and perform meditated design operations is a dimension of sustainability that has not been obvious in recent years: sustainability as pertinence not only eliminates the superfluous, but is also the first step to creating structures able to last, physically and culturally.”

Notable works include the James-SimonGalerie (Berlin, Germany, 2018), Neues Museum (Berlin, Germany, 2009), restoration and reinvention of the Procuratie Vecchie (Venice, Italy, 2022), America’s Cup Building ‘Veles e Vents’ (Valencia, Spain, 2006), Morland Mixité Capitale (Paris, France, 2022), headquarters for Amorepacific (Seoul, Republic of Korea, 2017), and Inagawa Cemetery Chapel and Visitor Center (Hyogo, Japan, 2017). Other significant works include the River and Rowing Museum (Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom, 1997), BBC S cotland headquarters (Glasgow, United Kingdom, 2007), Turner Contemporary (Margate, United Kingdom, 2011), Campus Saint Louis Art Museum (Missouri, United States of America, 2013), Campus Joachimstraße (Berlin, Germany, 2013), Museo Jumex (Mexico City, Mexico, 2013), One Pancras Square (London, United Kingdom, 2013), Royal Academy of Arts masterplan (London, United Kingdom, 2018), Hoxton Press

(London, United Kingdom, 2018) and Kunsthaus Zürich (Zurich, Switzerland, 2020).

“I am so overwhelmed to receive this extraordinary honour and to be associated with the previous recipients who have all given so much inspiration to the profession,” remarked Chipperfield. “I take this award as an encouragement to continue to direct my attention not only to the substance of architecture and its meaning, but also to the contribution that we can make as architects to address the existential challenges of climate change and societal inequality. We know that, as architects, we can have a more prominent and engaged role in creating not only a more beautiful world, but a fairer and more sustainable one, too. We must rise to this challenge and help inspire the next generation to embrace this responsibility with vision and courage.”

Chipperfield is the 52nd Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. He resides in London and leads additional offices in Berlin, Milan, Shanghai and Santiago de Compostela. The 2023 Pritzker Prize ceremony will be held in Athens, Greece, this May. www.pritzkerprize.com

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RAIC College names new Fellows and Honorary Fellows

The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) has named four professionals Honorary Fellows for 2023, recognizing their significant contributions not only to the built environment, but also to public life and the world around them. The awardees are Javier Sordo Madaleno Bringas, David Hughes, Tokunbo Ómisorè, and Sumayya Vally.

Javier Sordo Madaleno Bringas, chairman of the board of Grupo Sordo Madaleno and Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos, has contributed to the transformation of various Mexican cities through his forty-year career, with works embracing habitability, urban transformation, and sustainability. His portfolio has included the design of approximately 250 projects and construction of over nine million square metres, with an architectural approach that transforms urban sites in dynamic ways.

David Hughes, a professor at Kent State University, has made contributions to global architecture by committing his career to advancing knowledge of the contributions Africa has made to global architecture. Hughes’ research and writings have resulted in previously unknown African architects receiving international regard, and his theory of Afrocentric architecture has influenced design and built work worldwide.

Architect, developer, and advocate Tokunbo Ómisorè has used architecture to expand economic development opportunities for African people. In 1983, Tokunbo founded Tokunbo Omisore Associates with a focus on creating solutions that promote equity, resilience, and wellbeing for all. In 1999, he established Top Services Ltd. to create readyto-operate facilities, including a portfolio of boutique hotels and retail turnkey projects that have created jobs and helped improve people’s quality of life. Ómisorè is Past President and Trustee of the Africa Union of Architects, and the current Vice President-R5 of the International Union of Architects.

Sumayya Vally is principal of Johannesburg firm Counterspace, a design, research, and pedagogical practice that searches for expression for hybrid identities and territory, particularly for African and Islamic conditions both rooted and diasporic. In 2019, Counterspace designed the 20th Serpentine Pavilion in London, making Vally the youngest architect to win this internationally renowned commission. As Artistic Director, Sumayya has creatively shaped the inaugural Islamic Arts Biennale in Jeddah (January – April 23, 2023), actively working to expand and deepen the definition of Islamic arts. In 2022, Vally was selected by the World Economic Forum to be one of its Young Global Leaders and as a TIME100 Next list honoree. She recently joined the World Monuments Fund Board of Directors.

The RAIC College has also announced that 26 Fellows have been named to join the RAIC College. The Fellows are: Farida Abu-Bakare (Toronto, ON), Jill Bambury (Saint John, NB), Jonathan Bisson (Quebec, QC), Claude Bourbeau (Montréal, QC), Amela Brudar (Vancouver, BC), Georges Drolet (Montréal, QC), David J. Lieberman (Toronto, ON), Anna Madeira (Toronto, ON), Robert Martin (Ottawa, ON), Thierry Montpetit (Ottawa, ON ), Brian Porter (Ohsweken, ON), Olga Pushkar (Toronto, ON ), Tudor Radulescu (Montréal, QC), Colin Ripley (Toronto, ON), Danica Robertson (Ottawa, ON), Mitch Sakumoto (Vancouver, BC), Chei-Wei Tai (Vancouver, BC), Kate Thompson (Calgary, AB), Henry Tsang (Calgary, AB), Silva Stojak (Charlottetown, PEI), David Thom (Vancouver, BC), Mark A. Whitehead (Vancouver, BC), and Jozef Zorko (Montréal, QC).

The Fellows and Honorary Fellows will be inducted into the RAIC College during a ceremony on May 5, 2023, at the RAIC Conference in Calgary, Alberta. www.raic.org