The October issue of Canadian Architect explores architecture schools across Canada, including the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. In preparing the issue, the magazine’s editors “asked the heads of Canada’s 12 Schools of Architecture about the strengths, opportunities and challenges that their schools face.” Dean Richard Sommer’s response can be found on page 16.

The magazine also includes an article on expansion projects underway at several Canadian schools (page 20-23), and prominently features the Daniels Faculty’s new complex now under construction at One Spadina Crescent.

Writes Tammy Gaber on One Spadina:

The complex will revolve around a highly porous principal hall, set between the existing and new buildings and intended to host public events, critiques, exhibitions and lectures. An internal street along the was-west axis will link the U of T Campus to the surrounding community, and connect all of the school’s major spaces: li(brary, public gallery, fabrication labs, cafe, and stars to the studios. The design also envisages a series of pavilions embedded in the landscape at the edge of the circle, which will house research groups including the Global Cities Institute and a new Institute for Architecture and Human Health.

The feature section on schools of architecture is rounded out with an article on digital design and fabrication tools available to students across the country (page 25-28), written by Daniels Faculty Assistant Professor, and principal of Denegri Bessai Studio, Tom Bessai. His piece mentions “two excellent new faculty members that will move the discourse in computation and fabrication forward” at the Daniels Faculty: Assistant Professors Brady Peters and Benjamin Dillenburger. (Watch our 5Q4 video on Benjamin Dillenburger here.)

If you are not already a subscriber to Canadian Architect, you can view the October issue here.