Dal architecture and planning alumni are making a difference in communities around the world. Learn about the variety of work featured here. Got a tip? Email your profile ideas to Zein Alsaka in the alumni office at zein.alsaka@dal.ca.
Talbot Sweetapple
Talbot Sweetapple (MArchFP’97) is a partner, with Brian MacKay-Lyons, of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects Limited. The firm is the 2014 recipient of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Firm Award. Talbot’s work has won numerous awards and has appeared in many international publications. He shares his talents with students as a Professor of Practice in the School of Architecture.
The right fit
For Leslie Gallagher (BA’12) and Dan Scott (MPlan’11), finding their dream jobs meant being flexible and focusing on transferrable skills.
Forsythe + MacAllen (molo)
Stephanie Forsythe (MArch’00) + Todd MacAllen (MArch’00) are founders and principle designers of molo, a collaborative design and production studio based in Vancouver. As a design and manufacturing company, molo creates and distributes its unique and innovative products to clients around the world.
UPLAND Urban Planning and Design
Born out of a desire to apply their passion for deliberate urbanism and purposeful urban design from within a small, flexible and fun ‘corporate’ launch pad, Bruce Mans (MPlan’11) and Steffen Käubler (MURP’03) have grown their firm, UPLAND into a recognized and respected urban planning and urban design consulting firm serving Atlantic Canada.
Emma Fitzgerald presents “Hand Drawn Halifax”
2008 MArch Grad Emma Fitzgerald has recently published her own book of Architectural drawings titled “Hand Drawn Halifax”. Read about where her work has taken her since graduation.
Quality, resourcefulness and attention to detail: Studio North
Matthew Kennedy (MArch’13) and Mark Erickson (MArch’11) started Studio North in Calgary, a small architectural design-build practice committed to quality and resourcefulness. It received the New York ADC young guns 12 award.
Saskatchewan to California via 24 cities: Matthew Rosenberg
Matthew Rosenberg (BEDS’07) from Saskatoon, Sask. has worked and studied across 24 cities. In 2012 he founded his architecture and design studio, M-Rad, in the heart of downtown Los Angeles.
State-of-the-art: Jonathan Cohn
Jonathan Cohn (BArch (TUNS)’83) is Principal/Owner at Perkins Eastman Architects in NYC. His coordination of program requirements with economic, engineering, and site factors has resulted in highly-acclaimed, state-of-the-art designs.
Success from NYC to B.C.: Ben Checkwitch
Earning distinction in his career in New York, Ben Checkwitch (BEDS (TUNS)’97, MArch(FP)’99) returned to B.C. to form Checkwitch Poiron Architects Inc., earning multiple awards for the Nanaimo Cruise Ship Terminal.