RAIC Gold Medal, Architectural Practice Award, and Emerging Architectural Practice Award Jury
RAIC Gold Medal, Architectural Practice Award, and Emerging Architectural Practice Award
Peter Braithwaite, BA, BEDS, MArch, NSAA, OAA, MRAIC
Peter Braithwaite is the owner and operator of Peter Braithwaite Studio, an architecture and construction firm that operates in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Trained as a carpenter and cabinetmaker prior to pursuing architecture, Peter is dedicated to craft and the act of making. Following the completion of MArch at Dalhousie School of Architecture in 2012, Peter received the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Student Medal for achieving the highest level of academic excellence in his graduating class.
Since its establishment in 2015, Peter Braithwaite Studio has received several honours including the Emerging Architectural Practice Award from the RAIC, Emerging Talent distinction from Twenty + Change, and the Ronald J. Thom Award for Early Design Achievement presented by the Canadian Council for the Art.
Jamie Fobert
Jamie Fobert is a London-based architect and designer.
Born in Canada and trained at the University of Toronto, he arrived in London as a young architect in 1988 before establishing Jamie Fobert Architects in 1996. Since then, Jamie and his team have consistently produced innovative and inspiring architecture in projects ranging from individual houses to high quality retail and significant public buildings for the arts.
Completed projects include the National Portrait Gallery in London and Tate St Ives in Cornwall, both of which were shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize. Current projects include the redevelopment of two major historic sites, the Royal Observatory in Greenwich and the Tower of London, and a new Maggie’s Centre for cancer care.
Jamie lectures and teaches widely and has a deep involvement in the arts. He was appointed CBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours 2020.
Eric Gauthier
Carol Phillips, Partner B.E.S., B.Arch., AdvDip (HC), OAA (BCDS), NSAA, AIBC, AAA, LEED AP, SCUP, FRAIC
Carol Phillips, a Partner at the acclaimed architecture firm Moriyama Teshima Architects, is a Design Leader behind many of the firm’s most celebrated Canadian and international projects.
A graduate of the University of Waterloo School of Architecture, with both global and Canadian experience informing her work, she has led numerous award-winning projects, including the Visitor Welcome Centre in Ottawa, the Multifaith Centre at the University of Toronto, and Limberlost Place for George Brown College, a groundbreaking mass timber, net-zero carbon emissions building.
Carol is a passionate educator, teaching graduate courses at the University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University. She is an active voice in the architectural community, advocating for higher design standards and low-carbon solutions, frequently lecturing and serving on review panels for the City of Markham and Toronto Community Housing.
A Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, Carol is celebrated for her elegant, distinguished by the spare but assertive use of materials and her commitment to sustainability, with an emphasis on low-carbon and mass timber construction. Driven by a collaborative creative process, her work aspires to connect people to each other and the natural environment, embracing architecture’s role in addressing social and climate issues.
KaaSheGaaBaaWeak | Eladia Smoke
OAA | MAA | FRAIC | LEED®AP, Principal Architect, Smoke Architecture Inc.
KaaSheGaaBaaWeak | Eladia Smoke is Anishinaabekwe from Obishikokaang | Lac Seul First Nation, with family roots in Alderville First Nation, Winnipeg, and Toronto.
Eladia has worked in architecture since 2002. She founded Smoke Architecture as principal architect in 2014; is a founding partner of Oshkaabewis Engineering & Consulting, established 2024; and is an inaugural board member of Amplify Indigenous Voices in Architecture (AIVIA), in process 2024. She is the first Anishinaabekwe architect in Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec, the third Indigenous woman licensed as an architect in Canada.
Eladia is a founding member of RAIC’s Indigenous Task Force established 2016, and was a full-time faculty member at Laurentian’s McEwen School of Architecture from 2016 to 2022. Eladia serves on The International Union of Architects Indigenous Peoples Work Programme (UIA IPWP), the Toronto Urban Design Review Panel, and the Hamilton Climate Change Advisory Committee. Professional work includes internationally award-winning community-based and institutional projects working alongside Indigenous peoples and listening closely to our Elders.
RAIC Advocate for Architecture Award, RAIC Research and Innovation Award, and the RAIC Architectural Journalism and Media Award
Jessie Andjelic
Jessie Andjelic is an architect, urbanist, assistant professor (University of Calgary), and founding partner of SPECTACLE Bureau for Architecture and Urbanism, a Calgary-based, internationally-oriented design office working across the fields of architecture, urbanism, landscape and object design. Jessie has exhibited work in Calgary, Edmonton, Medicine Hat, Vancouver, Toronto, New York, Sao Paulo, Buffalo, Bulgaria, Estonia, Los Angeles, London, and Cambridge and has contributed to work published in Canadian Architect and Canadian Interiors. Jessie regularly mentors students and interns, and is a previous recipient of the Young Architect prize from the RAIC. With her practice, Jessie seeks opportunities to create works of architecture that critically explore our cities.
Chris Cornelius
Chris Cornelius is a citizen of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin. He is Professor and Chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of New Mexico. Chris is the founding principal of studio:indigenous and creates artifacts that offer a distinct vision of contemporary Indigenous culture.
Cornelius’ awards include the inaugural Miller Prize from Exhibit Columbus, multiple Best of Design Awards from the Architect’s Newspaper, and an Artist residency from the National Museum of the American Indian. Studio:indigenous is the recipient of the 2023 Architect’s Newspaper Best of Practice Award for Best Small Firm, Southwest. Chris has been exhibited widely including the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale and 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial. His work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). He has been a visiting professor at Yale and Columbia and is the Spring 2025 Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at Yale University.
Camille Mitchell, OAA FRAIC
Camille Mitchell is a trailblazing Architect with SvN Architects + Planners in Toronto and a dedicated advocate for equity in architecture. As a founder of Building Equality in Architecture Toronto and the Black Architects + Interior Designers Association, Camille champions mentorship, networking, and leadership opportunities for women and minorities in the field. She also serves on the Urban Land Institute's Women in Leadership Initiative Championship Team, advancing women in real estate and construction.
Camille actively contributes to academia, serving on the Dean's Advisory Council for Toronto Metropolitan University’s Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science and the Advisory Board for the University of Waterloo School of Architecture’s Racial Equity and Environmental Justice program. Through these roles, she provides critical guidance to shape inclusive curriculums and foster meaningful change. Camille’s impactful work exemplifies her commitment to creating opportunity and equity within the built environment and beyond.
Maya Przybylski
Maya Przybylski is the O'Donovan Director and Associate Professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo where she co-founded the DATAlab group. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto where she was awarded the Royal Architectural Institute Medal. She previously earned a degree with a specialization in Software Engineering at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. Maya combines her backgrounds to explore how the increased availability of data and the emergence of computational design transforms the theoretical frameworks, methodologies, tools and outcomes of the architect. She is a founding editor of bracket, a series that, since 2010 and with support from the Graham Foundation for the Arts , has documented the intersection of architecture, environment and digital culture.
Terrence Smith-Lamothe
As a struggling architectural glass artist, I went back to university to become, for many years, a struggling intern architect. Graduating at age 39 with a M. Arch. (1st Professional) from TUNS (now Dalhousie), I hoped the old maxim that “Architects do their best work after 40” would prove true. I founded my own Halifax firm, Architech, Ltd. and then became Senior Architect for the Province, specializing in educational, healthcare and heritage projects. I have written articles for Azure, Canadian Architect and edited several newsletters. I chaired the Halifax Municipality’s Heritage Advisory and Design Review committees and the Public Relations and Revival! committees for the NSAA. In 2010, I founded Architectural Overdrive! (a discussion group about Architecture and good design) which has met quarterly since. For the RAIC, I have given presentations at five conferences and helped edit the latest version of the Canadian Handbook of Professional Practice.