Showcase Series : LGA-Architectural Partners
This session will be hosted live October 14 from 1:00-2:30pm ET!
Topics: Honours & Awards
Length: 1 hour | What's included: Video, Quiz, Certificate of Completion
Join the RAIC in our inaugural Showcase series, a collaboration between Continuing Education and Honours and Awards programs. The series, running from September to November 2022, aims to shed light on the amazing projects and practices receiving recognition today, and on the people, and their motivations and ideas behind them.
The second session of the Showcase series, taking place on October 14th, 2022 at 1 pm, features 2019 Architecture Firm (now Architectural Practice) award-winner, LGA-Architectural Practice, with co-founder and partner, Janna Levitt, and Drew Adams, associate, at LGA-Architectural Partners.
Janna Levitt and Drew Adams will start with an introduction and overview of LGA-AP, followed by a moderated discussion with RAIC Honours and Awards Manager and recently licensed architect, Amanda Shore. In this 90-minute session, they will discuss what motivates LGA-AP, dig deeper into the process behind selecting which projects they work on and why and reflect on the role that architecture plays today in our everyday lives.
This program seeks to educate architects, intern architects, and non-architects alike, making ‘architecture,’ and all it encompasses, more accessible and engaging to everyone.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:
- Recognize the benefit of client collaboration in the design process
- Reflect on the importance of considering sustainable design practices within the scope of a project
- Implement strategies to work within the constraints of a project (seen and unforeseen) to develop a considered, interesting space
- Discuss the importance and benefit of designing socially-minded, community-focused architecture.
Subject Matter Experts:
Janna Levitt co-founded LGA Architectural Partners (formerly Levitt Goodman Architects). She views architecture as an essential tool for creating living, working, and learning environments that improve people’s lives and enhance diverse communities. As a Partner, she has led LGA projects throughout Ontario that include the carbon-neutral Evergreen Brick Works Future Cities Centre, LEED Gold Kitchener Central Library, the University of Waterloo School of Architecture, Laurentian University’s new McEwen School of Architecture, and the new timber Visitors Centre pavilion for Promontory Park at the foot of the Don River in Toronto’s east waterfront. Janna has also worked with many Indigenous communities working to realize their visions for projects such as the Centre for Native Child and Family Well Being, Seventh Generation Midwives Toronto Birth Centre, Thunder Bay Library Indigenous Knowledge Centre and is the local partner working with Alfred Waugh of Form Line Architects on the Indigenous House at U of T’s Scarborough campus.
Drew Adams is an architect with 15 years of experience holding a professional degree in urban planning from the University of Waterloo as well as a graduate degree in architecture from the University of Toronto. Drew's work has received considerable recognition including the RAIC’s 2020 Emerging Architect Award. Drew is an occasional guest critic at the University of Toronto and the University of Waterloo School of Planning, where he recently served as an adjunct instructor. Drew has experience managing institutional projects with budgets that range from $10M up to $85M including the carbon neutral transformation of the Kiln Building at Evergreen Brick Works; the transformation of two adjacent heritage-designated warehouses into the award-winning Eva’s Phoenix Brant Street Youth Hub; and the College Laneway House—an 1840s laneway shed adaptive reuse. Drew is currently managing the UTSC Indigenous House community building (by LGA in association with Formline Architecture) and the Lassonde Engineering Pavilion at York University.