from George Baird, Dean:

I am pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Barry Sampson as Assistant Dean, Facilities Planning and Design in the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, for the academic year 2007-08.

Professor Sampson held this position up until June, 2004, when he was succeeded by Professor Pina Petricone. Since Professor Petricone will be on research leave for the academic year 2007-08, Professor Sampson has kindly agreed to serve again one year as Assistant Dean, during which time he will focus on the Faculty’s plans to develop a plan to radically improve the environmental performance of its existing building at 230 College Street.

Professor Sampson recently won a Governor-General’s Medal for Erindale Hall at the University of Toronto campus, and his professional firm has just been named the “firm of the year” by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. Professor Sampson is currently partner in charge for projects for the City of St. Louis and the University of Calgary.

I am pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Mason White as Director of the Master of Architecture Program in the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design for the academic year 2007-08.

Professor White has been a member of the Faculty at al&d since 2005. He has taught studios and lecture classes in the Master of Architecture program, as well as undergraduate classes in the Architectural Studies program. Most recently, he led a Master of Architecture Advanced Option Studio sponsored by Concord City Place entitled “Air Rights.” For the past two years, Professor White has served as the coordinator of the Faculty’s Evening Public Lecture Series.

Prior to joining the University of Toronto, he taught at Cornell University and held the LeFevre Teaching Fellowship at Ohio State.

The professional firm he has founded with his partner Lola Sheppard has won numerous awards, including the first prize in the competition “Orphan Spaces” sponsored by the Canadian Architect Magazine and the Design Exchange. In addition, Lateral Office has been selected to participate in the Architecture League of New York’s Young Architects Forum, and is currently included in the curated Toronto exhibition “Twenty + Change.”

I am pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Pina Petricone as Director of the Master of Architecture program in the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design commencing July 1, 2008.

Professor Petricone has been a valued member of the Faculty for many years, and has served as Assistant Dean, Facilities Planning and Design, since 2004. She has taught studios and seminars in the Master of Architecture program, most recently teaching an Option Studio entitled Concrete Ideas focusing on new potentials of the already very familiar building material. She is currently working on a planned publication of the work of that studio.

Professor Petricone is also a partner in her professional firm, Giannone Associates, a Toronto architectural practice which has won numerous recent design awards, and has had its work published in architectural journals in Canada and around the world.

For the academic year 2007-08, Professor Petricone will be on research leave from the University, and will return to take up her new administrative duties on July 1, 2008.