DOUGLAS CARDINAL

Principle Architect
Douglas Cardinal Architect, Inc.
Ottawa, CANADA

Douglas J. Cardinal is a Canadian architect with an international reputation for excellence in natural design.  He has been credited with having created an indigenous Canadian style of architecture with his curvilinear, organic buildings.  Although his most recent and significant commission was the Canadian Museum of Civilization, in Hull, Quebec, Mr. Cardinal established an early reputation in Western Canada with his design for St. Mary's Church in Red Deer, the Grande Prairie Regional College, the Edmonton Space and Sciences Centre, the Government Services Centre in Ponoka, St. Albert Place and several other public buildings.

 

Mr. Cardinal believes that the design fo each building is a spiritual act that demands from all those participating in it the very best of their endeavors.  At the start of each project, he delcares a total commitment to excellence in architecture and to serving the needs of his client and demands the same commitment from all of his staff and sub-consultants.

 

His contribution to the field of architecture has earned him several awards, provincially and nationally, as well as national and international recognition.  Douglas Cardinal was presented with the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in March 2001 and is the recipient of Canada's most coveted honour, the Order of Canada.

 

His firm is one of North America's leading users of the computer-aided drafting AutoCAD system.  This system imparts a high degree of professionalism, acuracy, speed and coordination to all of his work, releasing him and his staff from exacting manual tasks and leaving them free to devote the necessary time to design refinement.

 

Mr. Cardinal has developed a painstakingly thorough process of designing "from the inside out", placing people at the heart of the evolution of the design.  He states:

In my profession and in my daily living, I have always maintained that the endeavors of all people should be directed towards a betterment of the human condition.  Therefore in my role as planner and architect, as coordinator of technologists, I see a tremendous opportunity to petition the needs of the individual and to reinstate our humanness as the most important element in all our efforts.  I have found that by placing the needs of the human being before the systems that modern man has created, we can ensure that man is indeed served by these systems rather than becoming a slave to them.  Through several projects undertaken by my firm and myself, I have demonstrated my dedication for working with people and improving the human condition.  The Canadian Museum of Civilization celebrates the achievements and future promis of the people of Canada; St. Mary's Church reflects the responsiveness of the New Liturgy to the needs of the community; the several schools in the North are designed to serve the special needs of the community; the Grande Prairie Regional College fills an expressed need for an integration of the educational, cultural and recreation needs of the people of Canada, and to provide a welcome relief from the harsh winters of the North.

 

Douglas Cardinal was born in Calgary, Alberta in 1934.  The son of a game warden, he studied architecture at the University of British Columbia and the University of Texas, from where he graduated with honours in 1963.  he practiced in Edmonton for 18 years, and moved his practice to Ottawa in 1985.

 

ANNE CORMIER

Directrice de l'École d'architecture de l'Université de Montréal
Montréal, CANADA

Anne Cormier dirige présentement l'École d'architecture de l'Université de Montréal.  Elle est un membre fondateur de l'Atelier Big City (Cormier, Cohen, Davies, architectes).  Diplômée de l'Université McGill en Architecture, elle a également étudié l'architecture urbaine sous la direction de Jean-Louis Cohen à l'Unité Pédagogique d'Architecture Paris-Villemin.  Anne Cormier a été membre du bureau de l'OAQ et elle a contribué aux travaux du comité de rédaction de la revue ARQ.  Avel l'Atelier Big City, Anne Cormier s'est mérité plusieurs distinctions dont le Prix de Rome du Conseil de Arts du Canada, le grand prix d'excellence de l'Ordre des Architectes du Québec et la médaille du Gouverneur Général du Canada.  Le groupe a présenté et exposé ses travaux au Québec et à l'étranger et a été invité à enseigner en architecture par diverses institutions dont Cornell University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University of Toronto et University of Calgary.

 

CRAIG DYKERS

Principle Architect
Snøhetta AS
New York, USA

Craig Dykers was born in Frankfurt, germany in 1961 and has lived extensively in both Europe and North America.  Dykers received a Bachelor degree in Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin after initial studies in medicine and art.

 

Craig has worked in Texas and california and later co-founded the architecture, landscape and interior design company Snøhetta in Oslo, Norway in 1989 and in New York City in 2004.  He was worked with the design of several prominent cultural projects including the Alexandria Library in Egypt, the Norwegian national Opera and ballet in Oslo, and the National September 11 Memorial Museum at the World Trade Center site in NYC.  Other projects have included the Lillehammer Winter Olympics Art Museum and the Norwegian Embassy in Berlin.

 

Active professionally and academically, Craig has been a member of the Norwegian Architecture Association (NAL), the American Institute of Architects (AIA), and is a Fellow in the Royal Society of Arts in England.  He has been the Diploma Adjudicator at the Architectural College in Oslo and a Distinguished Professor at City College in New York City and Syracuse University.  He has lectured extensively in Europe, Asia and the Americas.  In addition Dykers has been commissioned to complete various installation art projects in public spaces, many of these focused on the notion of context, nature and human nature.

 

DOMINIC GIROUX

President
Laurentian University
Sudbury, CANADA

M. Dominic Giroux est devenu le neuvième recteur de l'Université Laurentienne en avril 2009, à la rcommandation unanime d'un comité de onze membres, formé de représentants du Conseil des gouverneurs, du corps professoral, du personnel et d'anciens.

 

En tant que recteur de l'Université Laurentienne, M. Giroux est également président du Centre d'excellence en innovation minière et du comité exécutif de l'École de médecine du Nord de l'Ontario.  Il siège également au Conseil d'orientation pour la grappe industrielle minierè.

 

Avant de travailler au gouvernement, M. Giroux a été de 1998 à 2001 adjoint éducatif à la directrice de l'éducation puis getionnaire des services administratifs et financiers d'un nouveau district comptant 45 écoles de langue française dans le Sud de l'Ontario; de 2002 à 2005, il a été directeur exécutif des services administratifs d'un conseil scolaire de l'Est de l'Ontario, où il a dirigé un ambitieux proframme d'expansion des immobilisations.

 

Membre de l'Ordre des enseignantes et des enseignants de l'Ontario, M. Giroux est titulaire d'un baccalauréat en sciences sociales et d'un baccalauréat en éducation de l'Université d'Ottawa, ainsi que d'une maîtrise en administration des affaires de l'École des Hautes études commercials (HEC), à Montréal.

 

M. Giroux est marié avec Barbara Breault, diplômée de l'Université Laurentienne, qui est née et a grandi à New Liskeard.  Ils ont deux enfants, Simon et Amélie.