We’re so honoured to be a part of this incredible project!
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/industry-news/property-report/article-future-centre-paves-the-way-for-community-hubs-using-indigenous-design/
DTFA joins McCallum Sather and Parkin as architectural team for Biindigen Well Being Centre!
What an incredible honour to be able to collaborate with such an inspiring group of people to help bring the Biindigen Well Being Centre into built form over the coming years. This is a very, very special project. It is the result of a truly collective vision by many people over many years, that is committed to the holistic well being of the community and to providing wrap around support moving forward. Affordable housing. Daycare. Education and language. Community gardens. Ceremony. Health care - both traditional and western. All centred around the shared values of the organizations.
It has already been a long and invested journey for this incredible group of leaders to get to this point, and we’re absolutely thrilled to join for the next chapter and be part of such a talented and passionate design team!! For more information see https://www.mccallumsather.com/architectural-partners-on-the-biindigen-well-being-centre-are-announced/
Tyelor Farmer joins DTFA!
We’re super excited to welcome Tyelor Farmer to our growing team!! Tyelor brings 8 years of experience working in architectural offices in the USA. Throughout his professional career, he has acquired extensive experience in all aspects of architectural design and production, including construction drawings, project coordination, and building envelope design. Ever since my first conversation with him, his passion, thoughtfulness, and professionalism have been evident, and I could not be happier to have him working with us moving forward. Tyelor's motivation in architecture is well-aligned with what inspires us and his experience and organizational skills are going to be a perfect compliment to our team. For more information about Tyelor and his background please see “Our Team” in our menu.
See article here - https://www.canadianarchitect.com/taking-care-through-design-galt-health-cambridge-ontario/
David Fortin's article on Galt Health Centre published in Canadian Architect (designed by Jaliya Fonseka)
Full article available here: https://www.canadianarchitect.com/alison-brooks-architects-selected-for-revitalization-of-university-of-toronto-claude-t-bissell-building/
DTFA part of team led by Alison Brooks Architects and Adamson & Associates to revitalize Bissell Building at UofT
David Fortin named one of 8 "Emerging Voices" by the Architectural League of New York!
The Architectural League of New York is pleased to announce the winners of its annual Emerging Voices competition. Each year the League selects eight emerging practices through a juried, invited portfolio competition. The award recognizes individuals and firms based in the United States, Canada, and Mexico whose work addresses pressing contemporary issues, from climate change and resource extraction to social inequities and exploitative labor practices, with a distinct “voice” that has the potential to influence the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. The jury reviews firms that have a significant body of realized work and considers accomplishments within the design and academic communities as well as the public realm.
Being named an Emerging Voice by The Architectural League is one of the most prestigious honors in North American architecture. Since 1982, the program has identified more than 300 awardees who have gone on to develop influential careers. A list of all past winners can be found at archleague.org/emerging-voices.
The 2024 Emerging Voices are:
AD—WO
CANO VERA arquitectura
David T Fortin Architect
Estudio ALA
HILLWORKS
Latent
TEN x TEN Landscape Architecture + Urbanism
THE OPEN WORKSHOP
David Fortin joins Simoogit Saa Bax Patrick Stewart and Kelly Bapty at UBC to discuss Housing
What are the relationships between colonial land dispossession and Canada’s contemporary housing crisis? What are the ways that Indigenous housing can be for all Canadians? What is architecture’s role in achieving a decolonized housing future?
David Presented a talk titled “Icebergs and the Conundrum of Commodity in Indigenous Housing”
David Fortin offers a keynote lecture at Melbourne's Living Cities Forum titled “Towards a Critical Relationalism”
https://www.livingcitiesforum.org/
On November 16th, 2023, David offered a keynote lecture titled “Towards a Critical Relationalism” in downtown Melbourne as part of the 2023 Living Cities Forum. David also had the incredible opportunity to meet with the inspiring Uncle Dave Wandin and tour the Indigenous lands known as “Coranderrk” in the Yarra Valley, where Uncle Dave shared some of his knowledge about respecting country.
David Fortin's Lecture at UofT named one of "20 Essential Architecture and Design Lectures to Catch During Fall/Winter 2023" by Azure Magazine
https://www.azuremagazine.com/article/20-architecture-design-lectures-fall-and-winter-2023/
AZURE's Elizabeth Pagliacolo calls Not for Sale! 'one of the most progressive visions for housing reform we've ever seen'
Read Elizabeth’s article of the collective of AAHA here!
Architect's Journal Include AAHA's Not for Sale! as one of 14 to see at the Venice Biennale!
AAHA were thrilled to be included as one of 14 pavilions to see at the Venice Biennale! See the article here!
"Not For Sale!" opens in Venice
Canada’s official entry to the Venice Biennale of architecture was officially inaugurated on May 19th, 2023. The project was co-curated by the AAHA (Architects Against Housing Alienation) Organizing Committee, including Adrian Blackwell, David Fortin, Matthew Soules, Sara Stevens, Patrick Stewart, and Tijana Vujosevic. Read more about CBC’s coverage of the the opening here!
AAHA Organizing Committee at the inauguration of the Canadian pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2023 (left to right - Stevens, Soules, Stewart, Fortin, Vujosevic, Blackwell). Photo by Megan Williams of CBC.
David Fortin named Juror for 2023 Azure Awards
From Azure - “We are pleased to welcome this superlative group of leaders in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, interiors and product and furniture design to adjudicate the submissions to our international program, now in its 13th year.”
The Coalition of Innovation Leaders Against Racism (CILAR) name David Fortin one of 20 Aspiring Innovators of the Year
The inaugural edition of Canada’s Top 20 Aspiring Innovators of the Year, released by the Coalition of Innovation Leaders Against Racism (CILAR), recognizes Black, Indigenous and People of Colour winners who are positively impacting their communities, the world and future generations through the innovation ecosystem.
David Fortin hosts Design Lodge Symposium at University of Waterloo
On Thursday, July 14th, David Fortin hosted a 1-day symposium, short lecture, and public round table discussing design education through an Indigenous lens, as well as the conceptualization of a Design Lodge at the University of Waterloo. Participants included: Douglas Cardinal (Elder, Douglas Cardinal Architect), Bill Woodworth (Elder, University of Waterloo), Eladia Smoke (Smoke Architecture), Matt Hickey (Two Row Architects), Jake Chakasim (Carleton University), James Bird (University of Toronto), Dani Kastelein (Brook McIlroy), Amina Lalor (University of Waterloo), Jean Becker (University of Waterloo), Robin Stadelbauer (University of Waterloo), Logan MacDonald (University of Waterloo), Jason Surkan (David T Fortin Architect), Celina Rios-Nadeau (David T Fortin Architect), and Idoia Arana-Beobide (Douglas Cardinal Architect).
Design Lodge Symposium Dinner, - July 14th, 2022.
(L to R): Eladia Smoke, Matt Hickey, Douglas Cardinal, Robin Stadelbauer, Dani Kastelein, Bill Woodworth, Logan MacDonald, Celina Rios-Nadeau, Jake Chakasim, Amina Lalor, David Fortin. Participants missing from photo: James Bird (photographer), Jason Surkan, Idoia Arana-Beobide, Anne Bordeleau, Maya Przybylski
David Fortin a Keynote Speaker at Banff Session 2022
On May 7th, 2022, David will offer a keynote lecture at the Banff Session 2022 alongside Pipa Bradbury, Michael Green and Alison Brooks.
https://banffsession.ca/Banff/Speakers/Banff/Speakers.aspx?hkey=163461b5-da7c-4ecb-aa34-c7c5d5eead19
Architects Against Housing Alienation (AAHA) Selected to represent Canada at the Venice Biennale in 2023!
With this distinction, Architects Against Housing Alienation (AAHA) will launch Not for Sale! an architectural activist campaign for non-alienated housing. AAHA is an architectural curatorial collective including Adrian Blackwell (University of Waterloo), David Fortin (University of Waterloo, Architect), Matthew Soules (University of British Columbia, Architect), Sara Stevens (University of British Columbia), luugigyoo Patrick Stewart (Architect, McEwen School of Architecture), and Tijana Vujosevic (University of British Columbia).
Canada is in the midst of a severe and protracted housing crisis, with issues ranging from widespread unaffordability to under-housing, precarious housing, and homelessness. This modern reality, shaped by the extractive logic of speculative real estate, is founded on the simultaneous colonial dispossession of Indigenous lands and the modern invention of fee-simple property. Real estate speculation is a form of extortion. It converts homes into spatio-financial assets, changing the form, function, and aesthetics of housing to better serve the logics of wealth storage and speculation. The process is violent, resulting in an urban environment that is racist, sexist, and classist at a systemic level. This global phenomenon is nowhere more visible than in Canada, a country whose economy is now dominated by real estate.
Architects Against Housing Alienation (AAHA) will transform the Canada Pavilion in the Giardini into a campaign headquarters for equitable housing that rejects this concept of property and the financialized form of architecture that it implies. To address these issues, they will work with interdisciplinary and geographically dispersed teams comprised of activist organizations, advocates for non-alienated housing, and architects. They will collaborate to develop demands and create architectural projects to address housing alienation, presenting bold visions for equitable and deeply affordable housing in Canada. The AAHA goal is to mobilize all Canadians to join the call for safer, healthier, and more equitable housing.
https://canadacouncil.ca/initiatives/venice-biennale
David Fortin joins Dori Tunstall and Evan Jerry on stage at IDS in Toronto
On April 8th, David joined OCADU Dean of Design, Dr. Dori Tunstall, accomplished designer Evan Jerry, and Azure Editor-in-Chief, Elizabeth Pagliacolo, on stage at IDS Toronto 2022 to discuss the importance of diversification in how we think about the design process. Th e panel discussion was titled “Redefining Modern Design in 2022 - and Beyond”.
https://www.azuremagazine.com/article/azure-talks-at-ids-redefining-modern-design-in-2022-and-beyond/
David Fortin offers seminar on "Home" in Futurecasting Workshop
On Feb 8th, David led a seminar discussion on the concept of home to a group of emerging Indigenous architects and designers from around the world who were participating in the Futurecasting workshops, one part of a larger initiative called “Towards Home” that will be hosted and administered through the Centre for Canadian Architecture (CCA). Co-curators: Joar Nango, Taqralik Partridge, Jocelyn Piirainen, Rafico Ruiz
Inuit Futures Ilinniaqtuk: Nicole Luke; Curatorial assistant: Ella den Elzen; Curatorial team: Kate Yeh Chiu, Francesco Garutti, Andrew Scheinman.
https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/events/82781/ruovttu-guvlui-towards-home
David Fortin discusses Canadian Design with Andrew King, Leslie Jen and Dezeen Founder Marcus Fairs
Description - “Dezeen teamed up with architecture and design firm Lemay to host a live talk exploring Canadian design.
The talk discussed the different elements that make up Canadian design identity and aesthetics, touching on themes such as the importance of nature, community engagement, and placemaking.
The speakers also discussed the role of indigenous design practices in shaping contemporary Canadian design.
Appearing on the panel was Leslie Jen, director of marketing at Toronto-based practice Superkül, together with David Fortin, associate professor at the McEwen School of Architecture, and Andrew King, chief design officer at Lemay.
The talk was moderated by Dezeen's founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs.”
Link here
