The Midday Talks lecture series is coordinated by Assistant Professor Wei-Han Vivian Lee. These lectures are open to the public and registration is not required.

Introduction by Alissa North.

Atlantic Canada’s dramatic landscapes, rich histories, and quaint communities provide both unique opportunities and constraints for the disciplines of landscape architecture, architecture, and planning. Matthew will discuss recent work of Halifax-based firm, Ekistics, to demonstrate projects that use contemporary design to reveal and celebrate the rich histories and unique sites found around the east coast. Three projects will highlight the specificity of the Atlantic Canadian context at different scales: Destination Borden-Carleton Master Plan, Fort Needham Memorial Park, and the new Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Center.

Matthew Brown is a practicing landscape architect and planner in Atlantic Canada. He holds a Bachelor of Environmental Studies – Planning from the University of Waterloo, a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Toronto, and a Master of Design Studies in Urbanism, Landscape, and Ecology from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, where he graduated with distinction.

As a proud Newfoundlander, his connection to the east coast is exemplified through his research on the capacity of landscape and ecology to act as catalyst in economic diversification and coastal rural regeneration. His research has won awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects, as well as a research fellowship from Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

Professionally, Matthew spent the first seven years of practice working as an Associate with the award-winning firm of Stimson Associates, before returning to Atlantic Canada to practice as a Senior Landscape Architect with Ekistics in 2017.

Matthew has taught landscape design studios at Northeastern Universities School of Architecture, and has been an invited critic at Harvard University, Northeastern University, Rhode Island School of Design, University of Massachusetts, Boston Architectural College, Dalhousie University, University of Toronto, and the University of Waterloo.