Betsy Williamson
Betsy Williamson
B.A., M.Arch, OAA, FRAIC
BEAT Advisory Past Chair
Betsy Williamson is a registered architect with the Ontario Association of Architects and a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (FRAIC). Betsy received a Master of Architecture from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Architecture from Barnard College. Her office’s work has been awarded the prestigious 2014 Emerging Architectural Practice Award by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and the 2014 Emerging Voices Award by the Architectural League of New York. Betsy was also named a finalist for the Architects’ Journal 2015 Emerging Woman Architect of the Year Award. Her office’s early work was awarded the Ronald J. Thom Award for Early Design Achievement from the Canada Council for the Arts and won the Canadian Prix de Rome for their research in the field of innovative wood construction.
Betsy continues to foster her commitment to engaging the city in a greater capacity through volunteer work on a number of boards. As vice-chair of the Waterfront Toronto Design Review Panel, she actively contributes to a culture of quality at an urban scale by signaling that high quality design is a critical consideration for the development of Toronto’s waterfront and the city.
Sonia Ramundi
Sonia Ramundi
M. Arch, OAA, MRAIC
Sonia Ramundi holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto with a double major in architecture and fine art history, and a minor in visual studies. Since graduating from the master’s program at the Daniels Faculty in 2012, she has been actively practising and teaching architecture.
Ramundi is a registered architect and has been the project lead on multiple commercial interior fit-outs and residential new-builds. She has worked in offices in Los Angeles and Toronto on various institutional projects as well as award winning, high-end interiors and residential projects. She is particularly interested in exploring the dynamic relationship between site and architecture, and in examining design problems and their potential solutions at various scales.
Since 2017, Ramundi has been involved in BEAT (Building Equality in Architecture Toronto) as an executive member, then as the executive director, and presently as an advisory member. During her term as executive director of BEAT, Ramundi led the internal visioning workshop initiative which sought to update the group's mandate to respond to current needs in the profession, and to prepare the organization for future growth.