The Daniels Faculty is playing host this month to Architecture of Health: The Annual Zeidler-Evans Lecture. The yearly public address, administered by McMaster University and delivered by a researcher with expertise and interest in the connections between architecture, physical space and health, will take place on Monday, October 23. 

This year’s lecture, entitled A City That Can Save Us, will be given by Dr. Robin Mazumder (pictured below). A post-doctoral research fellow at the Technical University of Berlin, Mazumder acquired his PhD in cognitive neuroscience at the University of Waterloo and is an outspoken advocate for healthy urban design.

His talk, which will be moderated by journalist Nahlah Ayed of CBC Radio’s IDEAS, will focus on innovative approaches to health education, research and care through the design, use and analysis of physical space.

The lecture will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Main Hall of the Daniels Building at 1 Spadina Crescent. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. and a reception will follow.

Attendees are requested to RSVP via email by October 18 at FHSevents5@mcmaster.ca or by phone at 905-525-9140 (Ext. 20250).

Established in 2022, when the inaugural talk was given by author and academic Annmarie Adams, the Zeidler-Evans Lecture is sponsored by the family of John Evans, the first dean of McMaster University’s School of Medicine, to honour renowned architect Eberhard Zeidler, who passed away last year at age 95.

Between 1967 and 1972, Zeidler and Evans collaborated closely on the creation of McMaster’s Health Sciences Centre, the design for which combined a tertiary hospital and a university facility to teach healthcare professionals, thereby transforming how hospitals are created, built and used.

The German-born architect, who also designed such iconic buildings as the Eaton Centre in Toronto, had a long and sustained relationship with the Daniels Faculty, serving as an adjunct professor at the school from 1983 to 1995 and establishing the Eberhard Zeidler Scholarship with his wife Jane in 1999.

He is also the namesake of the Eberhard Zeidler Library, a 37,000-volume facility in the revitalized Daniels Building, to which he and Jane generously contributed.

Banner image: John Evans (left) and Eberhard Zeidler, after whom the annual Zeidler-Evans Lecture is named, collaborated closely on the creation and building of the McMaster University Health Sciences Centre.