Award-winning architect Susan Fitzgerald (BEDS (TUNS)’97, MArch(FP)’99) was interviewed by the Chronicle Herald about her Live Work Grow project, addressing sustainable urban density on peninsular Halifax. She and her husband, Brainard, have created three separate units on one residential lot in north-end Halifax. The family’s living quarters are above a ground-floor office for Susan Fitzgerald Architecture. A two-storey rental unit at the back of the lot connects to the front structure by a glassed-in passageway. This ensures that the municipal land-use bylaw allowing only one dwelling on a residential lot is not violated.

Fitzgerald, who is also a partner with Fowler Bauld & Mitchell, suggests that increasing density will allow more people to live in the city rather than commute from the suburbs.

She won the Canada Council for the Arts Prix de Rome in 2011 and used the $50,000 prize money to tour Latin American countries to gain ideas for the project.

Read the full article, “Couple make space for life, career” on thechronicleherald.ca.