ABOUT

Lauren is a Toronto based Intern Architect and is presently working at ERA Architects. Her professional experience centres on radical renovations to underutilized urban and suburban sites. She has dual degrees in architecture and her academic experience focused on the public and private spaces produced by the intersection of architecture and feminism. Her research develops spatial, representational, and text-based practices to explore and communicate the role of gender through the configuring infrastructures of labour, including kitchens, workspaces, and community accessibility. She has taught representational history, theory and methods in the architecture, landscape, and urban design departments at the University of Toronto.

Recent academic awards include:

  • Irving Grossman Prize 2018, University of Toronto: awarded to the best thesis project focused on housing design excellence and innovation.
  • Canadian Architect Student Award 2018: shortlisted for best Master in Architecture student thesis project in Canada.
  • Howarth Wright Graduate Fellowship 2017-2018, University of Toronto: Granted funding to complete travel, research, exhibition and publication that narrate the intersections of Frank Lloyd Wright’s ongoing influence on gender and the design of workspaces and kitchens.
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship 2017-2018, University of Toronto: awarded for academic merit and her innovative proposal on suburban development.
  • DIALOG Residency, 2018: represented the University of Toronto at student residency. The residency re-imagined a laneway in downtown Edmonton as a catalyst to promote the revitalization, vibrancy, and liveliness of the surrounding urban environment.

Lauren is excited by under-appreciated spaces of the mundane and everyday environments that shape everyone’s experience of architecture. She looks forward to effecting change through a variety of architecture, landscape, urbanism, and design projects.

Here’s a portfolio of her recent work: