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Le Centre de design présentera l’exposition Le béton sous toutes ses coutures – Les expérimentations architecturales de Mark West. Pour la première fois, les dessins visionnaires et les énigmatiques constructions en béton de l’artiste et architecte Mark West seront rassemblés dans un même lieu. Cet ensemble de dessins, collages et constructions à différentes échelles, s’étalant sur une période de près de 40 ans, est enraciné simultanément dans les principes de la logique structurelle et dans le domaine imaginatif de la pratique surréaliste.

The upcoming BEAT MIX will take place at the Inscape Showroom on evening of Thursday April 2nd.  Due to popular demand, the event will be specifically focused around issues architects face when they make the decision to start a family. Attendees will have the chance to ask questions related to better understanding practices in place at offices to facilitate parental leaves, navigating the field once returning to work, and shedding light on the financial, social and cultural dynamics of bringing up a family while managing a career. This BEAT MIX will serve to cultivate a valuable opportunity for those interested in understanding how to manage the balance between thriving at work and home, as well as network and meet colleagues in similar stages of their career.

BEAT MIX will include seven invited Featured Guests who are stationed in seven specific Zones. The Featured Guests will comprise of Partners and Principals from local design firms of various sizes, along with leaders in adjacent professions. Participants will have the opportunity to interact with the Featured Guests and meet a succession of individuals in small groups throughout the evening. Our panel of Featured Guests has been curated to share their unique experience navigating parenthood and practice.

BEAT encourages interns, emerging practitioners and seasoned professional to join this interconnected community to share information, advice and opportunities.

The Ontario Natural Building Conference will take place at Camp Kawartha, near Lakefield ON. Conference attendees can look forward to the same high caliber roster of presentations and activities that have marked the conference as one of the best natural building conferences in Ontario and beyond!

This years keynote speaker will be the renowned architect, author, consultant, instructor and co-developer of the EcoNest house concept, Paula Baker-Laporte. Paula has an extensive and dedicated career in the areas of environmentally sound and health enhancing architecture. She was selected as one of the top 10 green architects in the United States by Natural Home Magazine, and has been published extensively on the topics of healthy home design and construction. We look forward to having Paula join us at the conference!

Now in its ninth year, this locally curated film festival presents screenings on design-oriented topics including architecture, urban design, graphics, and product design. This year’s films include Women of the Bauhaus, Jørn Utzon: The Man & The Architect, and Neutra: Survival Through Design.

Over 1000 Canadian and international artists will participate in the Festival featuring over 250 exhibitions and programs throughout May in the greater Toronto area. The work of artists participating in the 2020 Festival expose physical, emotional, and environmental scars that reflect the fragility of our times. Among the artists showing at the Festival for the first time this year are:

• Laia Abril (Spanish) – exhibition at CONTACT Gallery
• Fatma Bucak (Turkish) – exhibition at MOCA Toronto
• Persijn Broersen and Margit Lukács (Dutch) – exhibition at A Space Gallery
• Kim Hoeckele (American) – outdoor billboard installation
• Native Art Department International (NADI) featuring Maria Hupfield and Jason Lujan (Anishinaabe & Chiricahua Apache-Indigenous Mexican) – exhibition at Mercer Union
• Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs (both Swiss) – outdoor installation at Metro Hall
• Thirza Schaap (Dutch) – installation throughout Osgoode Subway Station
• Małgorzata Stankiewicz (Polish) – outdoor billboard installation
• Miao Ying (Chinese) – exhibition at Art Museum at the University of Toronto – Justina M. Barnicke Gallery.
• Tereza Zelenkova (Czech)- exhibition at Campbell House Museum