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John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design

Alissa North

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Contemporary History and Theory of Landscape Architecture (North America)
  • Landscape Architecture in Canada
  • Modernist History and Theory of Landscape Architecture (North America)
  • Natural / Green Infrastructure as applicable to Landscape Architecture
  • North Design Office Inc., www.northdesignoffice.ca
  • Practicing Landscape Architect
  • The Visual Communication of Landscape Architecture

Office: N/A
Mobile: (416)662-0383
Website
Email: alissa.north@daniels.utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Amory Ngan

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Managing trees and green spaces
  • Urban forestry and arborculture

Office: N/A
Website
Email: amory.ngan@daniels.utoronto.ca

Brigitte Shim

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Aga Khan Award for Architecture - Design Excellence link with Quality of Life
  • Architectural design
  • Embedded Light in Architecture
  • Great Urban Rooms
  • Innovative Material Exploration
  • Landscape
  • Laneway Architecture and Urbanism
  • Modern Sacred Spaces
  • Urban design

Office: 416-368-3892
Home: 416- 778-7434
Mobile: 416- 778-7434
Languages: English
Website
Email: brigitte.shim@daniels.utoronto.ca
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Chloe Town

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Town Office

Office: N/A
Website
Email: chloe.town@utoronto.ca

David Lieberman

Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Architectural design
  • Industrial design
  • Urban design

Office: 416-535-0165
Mobile: 416-937-8753
Languages: English
Website
Email: david.lieberman@daniels.utoronto.ca
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David Martell

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Analytics applications to forest fire management
  • Forest fire management systems
  • Forest fires

Office: 416-978-6960
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: david.martell@utoronto.ca
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Karen Louise Kubey

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Health equity
  • Housing
  • Spatial Justice

Office: N/A
Website
Email: karen.kubey@utoronto.ca

Larry Richards

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Architect selection process
  • Architectural and urban design
  • Architectural education
  • Design competitions
  • postmodernism
  • University of Toronto Campuses and Buildings

Office: N/A
Home: 416-922-4142
Mobile: 416-779-2001
Languages: English
Website
Email: larry.richards@utoronto.ca
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Lisa Steele

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Censorship and visual arts
  • Contemporary visual and media arts
  • Women artists

Office: 416-946-8150
Home: 416-557-7785
Mobile: 416-557-7785
Languages: English
Website
Email: lisa.steele@utoronto.ca
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Mike Wotton

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Climate change impacts on wildfire in Canada
  • Fire weather and its connection with fire behaviour
  • Wildfire behaviour and spread
  • Wildfire management and suppression
  • Wildfire occurrence and their causes

Office: 416-978-5251
Languages: English
Website
Email: mike.wotton@utoronto.ca
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Robert Wright

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Design and new media
  • Landscape architecture
  • Open space design and planning
  • Urban design and planning

Office: 416-978-6788
Website
Email: r.wright@daniels.utoronto.ca
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Sally Krigstin

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Bioenergy
  • Biomass
  • Biomaterials
  • Biorefinery technologies
  • Industrial issues in the Forest and Pump and Paper Industry
  • Pulp and paper
  • Recycling
  • Value- Added Applications
  • Wood and Biomass Materials

Office: 416-946-8507
Website
Email: sally.krigstin@utoronto.ca
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Sandy Smith

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Biological control and pesticide use
  • Forest health
  • Forest insect ecology
  • Invasive species and biodiversity
  • Pest outbreaks and management
  • Urban forestry

Office: 416-978-5482
Mobile: 647-393-4817
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: s.smith.a@utoronto.ca
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Sean Thomas

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • How trees and forests respond to human impacts โ€“ intentional impacts through forest management
  • Unintentional impacts via local, regional, and global changes in the environment

Office: 416-978-1044
Languages: French,German,Malay,Swahili
Website
Email: sc.thomas@utoronto.ca
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Ted Kesik

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Building re-use/re-purposing, retrofit, refurbishment and renewal
  • Building science and engineering
  • Green / net-zero energy / carbon neutral buildings
  • Mass timber buildings
  • Sustainability and resilience

Office: 416-978-0849
Home: 416- 785-3382
Mobile: 647-281-4095
Languages: English
Website
Email: ted.kesik@daniels.utoronto.ca
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