We are honored to have the winners of 2022 Prix De Rome in Architecture - Emerging Practitioner conduct a BEAT Talk on Wednesday, February 5, 2025: Ivee Wang, Julia Nakanishi, and Paulette Cameron. This session will be held in-person at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, building, University of Toronto, room DA230 . Event schedule and location details below.
BEAT is a volunteer-run organization made up of architects, designers, leaders, and entrepreneurs creating opportunities for community-building, advocacy, networking, and mentorship.
BEAT Talks are a series of discussions held at the offices of Architects across the city. Hosts will share their learned experience.
BEAT Talks qualify for OAA Structured Learning hours
Join us for a round table discussion as we hear from three 2022 Prix De Rome in Architecture - Emerging Practitioner winners: Ivee Wang, Julia Nakanishi, and Paulette Cameron. The speakers will expand on their unique trajectories in research and professional roles; discussing what sparked an interest in their research topic, and the amazing projects and initiatives they've worked on along the way.
About Ivee Yiyao Wang:
Driven by a passion for housing and community-focused projects, Ivee combines her diverse professional and research expertise as a Toronto-based architect and researcher. She has contributed to public housing initiatives internationally, including a modular supportive housing development in Los Angeles and a council housing regeneration project in London, UK. In Toronto, her work spans significant contributions to Toronto Community Housing projects such as the renewal of 220 Oak Street and the deep retrofit of 300 Dufferin Street. Ivee also brings her design sensitivity to adaptive reuse projects, including the transformation of TCDSB St. Margaret School and the Redpath Sugar Museum.
With the support of the Prix de Rome for Emerging Practitioners, Ivee visited multiple architectural practices with innovative public housing projects across Europe and published articles on improving the design and development model of public housing in Canada. She also collaborated with Karakusevic Carson Architects in London to publish Retrofit Social Housing and is currently working with LGA Architectural Partners in Toronto on research exploring the potential for infill development on Toronto Community Housing properties.
About Julia Nakanishi:
Julia Nakanishi is a designer at Public Work, based in Toronto/Treaty 13 Territory. She has a Master of Architecture (M.Arch) degree and a Bachelor of Architectural Studies (BAS) degree from the University of Waterloo and is a 2023 recipient of the Canada Council’s Prix de Rome for Emerging Practitioners in Architecture. Learning through a post-capitalist perspective and land-based initiatives in rural Japan, Julia’s research explores how designers can build relationships with communities in ways that resist the pressures of capitalist growth and environmental degradation, while also nourishing land, culture and kinship in the process.
About Paulette Cameron:
Paulette Cameron works as an Intern Architect at MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects. She holds a Master’s degree in Architecture from Dalhousie University and has received several awards, including the John D. Watson Memorial Travel Scholarship, the Design and the Construction Institute Award, the Salvatore Paradise Scholarship, the Peter Yeadon Scholarship, and the Alpha Rho Chi Medal in Architecture. She is interested in exploring how women-led architectural interventions can challenge the status quo in subversive and cross-disciplinary ways. Originally from the coastal village of Mabou, Cape Breton, she now resides in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
With support from the Prix de Rome in Architecture, Paulette Cameron embarked on a research expedition to conduct a pulse check on the status of women within the architectural design profession. In a journey that spanned seven countries, she conducted interviews with fourteen women who challenged patriarchal norms both inside and outside the profession, while redefining the boundaries of architecture. These innovators navigate and dismantle the rigid frameworks that once confined architecture, reclaiming it as a creative and transformative labor of love. Cameron continues to exhibit her journey and its findings, showcasing her dynamic process of documenting, observing, and collecting—a peripatetic inquiry that demands accountability from the profession while celebrating those who push it forward.
Her travel research and resulting exhibition work are based on conversations with: Ana María Durán Calisto, Deborah Berke, Dolores Hayden, Lauren Stimson, Wanda Dalla Costa, Claudia Kappl-Joy, Tatiana Bilbao, Ann Nisbet, Helle Søholt, Ellen Van Loon, Alison Brooks, Manuela Luca-Dázio, Rosalea Monacella, and Sabine Marcelis.
Location
Room DA230
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto
1 Spadina Cres, Toronto, ON, M5S 2J5
Event Schedule
6:45 pm Doors open
7:00 - 8:00 pm BEAT Talk
8:00 - 8:30 pm Networking reception