The Daniels Faculty is pleased to announce that Assistant Professor Adrian Phiffer has been appointed Director of the Master of Architecture (MARC) program for a one-year term, effective July 1, 2023.  

He takes over from Assistant Professor Wei-Han Vivian Lee, who is beginning a one-year Research and Study Leave this summer and will resume her directorship of the MARC program in 2024.   

“I have been teaching at Daniels since 2009 and in many ways it has been like a second home for me,” says Phiffer, who is originally from Romania. “I am excited to continue the tremendous work Vivian Lee has grounded in the program and the open collaboration with our students, faculty, staff and school supporters.” 

Phiffer is director of the Office of Adrian Phiffer, whose work includes international building and master planning projects in Nurnberg, London, Delhi, Beijing, Prague, Riga and Montreal. He is also the author of the book Strange Primitivism and director of the short film Hero of Generic Architecture.

Phiffer looks forward to growing the interdisciplinary approach to the MARC program. “We live in a very creative time when new ways of thinking but also new relationships between different disciplines and agents are possible and necessary,” he says.

“Because of its proximities and overlaps with the landscape architecture, urban design, visual studies and forestry programs, as well as its direct partnerships with the First Nations of Southern Ontario, city communities and national and international groups, the architecture program at Daniels is strongly positioned to offer one of the most relevant professional education nowadays.”  

Photo by: Codrut Tolea