Adrian Blackwell cv
[McCaul/University - Zone B]
adrian.blackwell@utoronto.ca
EDUCATION
00-02 University of Toronto
Master of Urban Design (June
2002)
85-91 University of Waterloo
Bachelor
of Architecture (Aug 1991)
Bachelor
of Environmental Studies (Dec 1988)
SOLO EXHIBITONS
04 Car Collective Modern
Fuel ARC, Kingston (Sept 4-6)
00 Model for a public
space Mercer Union Center for contemporary Art, Toronto (July 6 - Aug 5)
Spin
In Images Film Festival, Innis College, U of T (Mar)
99 Spiral Space Architecture
Gallery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg (Mar 12 - Aug 1)
98 Inflatable Carpet .in/attendant.
962 Queen St. West (July 17-Aug 1)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
05 City: Open door, Shenzhen
Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture Shenzhen, China (Dec 10 -
March 10)
Here Be Dragons: Cartographies of Globalization Toronto Free Gallery (Nov 12 - Dec
17)
Tracing Urban space along its edges - Lower Yangzi - Beijing - Pearl River
Delta Larry
Wayne
Richards Exhibition Space, al&d, University of Toronto (Oct 24 - Nov 11)
Minor Urbanisms The New Gallery, Calgary Alberta (Sept 09 - Oct 09)
Adrian
Blackwell, Jonas Hauptman, Michael Silver Taubman College of Architecture and
Urban Planning Gallery,
University of Michigan (Mar 20-April 5)
04 Metro-AGO-Go Art
Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (Oct 16 - Nov 7)
Peace of Mind Kitchener City Hall, Kitchener, CAFKA 2004, (Sept 18 - Sept 24)
Constructed Folly Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto Scarborough,
curated by
Christian Giroux
and Daniel Young (Sept 16 - Oct 20)
03 [re]Cycle at McMaster
University, Hamilton Artists Inc. and Art Gallery of Hamilton (Oct 6-
Nov 16)
02 The Way up and the
Way Down are One and the Same 5 Grafton Avenue, curated by Yam
Lau (Nov 29 - Mar 28)
Crack The
Agnes Etherington Art Center, Kingston, curated by Jan Allen (Nov 16 -Feb 9)
01 Lefty Show A
Space, curated by Kingstone, Ko and Papararo (Sept 7 - Oct 13)
Substitute City The Power Plant, curated by Philip Monk (Mar 24 - May 27)
A better place Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, curated by Timothy Long
(Feb 9 - May
13)
00 Centrifugal Parking
lots in Hamilton, curated by Eileen Sommerman, sponsored by the Art
Gallery of Hamilton
(Oct 2 to Nov 14)
1000
Words: musings on the medium Gallery TPW (May 1 to June 5)
Trans Artlab,
University of Western Ontario, curated by Cathy Thomas (Mar 5 -19)
98 Offsite @ Toronto outdoors,
organized by Kym Pruesse with John Marriott and Mercer Union
(Sept 25-Oct 31)
Urban
Textures Gallery 101, Ottawa, curated by Timothy Dallet (Aug 6 - Sept 6)
See-Through
Cities Christopher Cutts (Jan 9 - 31)
97 Man-size 469
King Street West (Mar 28 to April 19)
96 Limousine Free
Parking (June 14 to July 13)
COLLECTIVE PROJECTS
98 Fabricator t-shirt
exchange The Power Plant, part of the series: One Night Stand. Made with
the Fabricator
collective (July 15)
97 February Group Action Nathan
Phillips Square, twenty-four hour outdoor sculpture to protest
the amalgamation of Metro Toronto.
February Group (including Kika Thorne, Luis Jacob,
Cecilia Chen and Christie Pearson) (March 1 to March
2 1997)
96 October Group action Nathan
Phillips Square, Temporary inflatable in front of Toronto's
City Hall for Metro Days of Action. October
group (Oct 25 and 26)
ARCHITECTURAL EXPERIENCE
Practice:
97-95 Ian Macdonald Architect
Inc. (Toronto) Project Architect - Design, working drawings and
supervision on residential projects,
including house in the Mulmer Hills no. 1
(Nov 1995 - Dec1997)
95-94 Small Building
Company (Toronto) Carpentry for the offices of Now magazine
and three residential projects. (May
1994 - Jan 1995)
94-93 Saucier et Perrotte
Architects (Montreal Quebec) Site supervision and working drawings
for a house,
project architect,
apartment building renovation video viewing room Musee d'Arte
Contemporain. (Feb 1993 to April 1994)
92 Dan Hoffman Architect (Bloomfield
Hills, Michigan) Competition entry for a new entrance
to the Cranbrook Educational Community (Nov 1991-
Feb)
90 MacLennan Jaunkalns
Miller Architects (Toronto) Design Development and contract
documents for an indoor pool complex,
Milton, Ontario. (May-Dec)
89 Kuwabara Payne McKenna
Blumburg Architects (Toronto) production team for the expansion
to the Art Gallery of Ontario (Jan-Aug)
TEACHING
05-97 University of Toronto Faculty
of Architecture, Landscape and Design:
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the following studios and classes: Master of Architecture
Program :
Global Architecture: China (summer 2004, 05,06). Second Year design Studio
on the Metropolis (Fall 2003) Master of Urban Design Programe - History
and Theory
Seminar (Fall 2003, Fall 2006), Studio 1
(Fall 2002) MUD thesis students Bachelor of Architecture Programme - FoUrth
Year Design
and Theory Seminar (Fall 2001) Third year design studio focusing on urban
design and
housing (Fall 1999,
1998, 1997), First year design studio (Winter 1998) Architectural Studies
and Architecture Specialist
Programme - Urban Design: History, Theory, Criticism (fourth
year) (Winter 2001), Architectural
Design
2 (Summer and Fall 2001), Representation 2 (Summer 2001), Architectural design 3
(Winter 2001),
Architectural design 1 (Winter and Summer 2000), Representation 1 (Fall
2000)
05-04 University of Michigan Taubman
College of Architecture and Urban Planning 04-05
Muschenheim
Fellow : Master of Architecture Programme:
third year Architecture studio, second year
Architectural Representation, Undergraduate Program: Wallenberg
Studio
03 Chonqing University Faculty
of Architecture and Urban Planning (Feb-July) Visiting Professor
in the following classes: Master of
Urban Planning 2 - Second Year Urban Design Studios,
Master of Architecture Seminar - Mapping the City
Faculty Course - Reading architectural
writing in English
00-99 University of Waterloo School
of Architecture, Bachelor of Architecture Programme -
Adjunct
Assistant Professor in the following studios and classes:
First year design studio (Winter 2000, 1999), Second year design studio focusing on issues of
sustainable
design (Summer 2000, 1999)
92 University of Waterloo :
Adjunct Lecturer in a fourth year design studio, Rome, Italy (Fall)
ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTS AND PROPOSALS
03 Wall Park - Chongqing,
China. Urban and Architectural Designer for a new park surrounding
one the City's last remaining
fragments of its Ming Dynasty wall. (with La Cime International)
Nanping Cultural Street Chongqing, China Urban and Landscape Design for a 1 kilometer long
street and outdoor exhibition space. (collaboration with Fang Xin, Jane Hutton, Xu Jian and
Su Yunfeng)
03-02 Canadian Canoe
Museum - Site planning and design development on a new entrance and
link between two existing buildings.
Collaborative project with Richard Stevens Architect,
Arthur Erickson Architect.
00 Sienna Software (Richmond
st.) Office interior, collaboration with Berest Nguyen.
Blackwell
engineering Offices (19 Duncan st.) Design of workstations, shelving, and glass
wall systems.
98 Dundas Square (Yonge
and Dundas street) unofficial entry to the Dundas Square
competition.
95 Room in the Garden at
Ossington Old Orchard Public School: winner of a two-stage design
competition for an outdoor classroom.
92 Painting
Studio (Waterloo Ontario) One room studio addition to a farm house. Design,
Contract documents
and construction (construction in collaboration with Mike Epp and Kati
Rubinyi).
THEATRE SET DESIGN
98 Camera Woman Buddies
in Bad Times, by R.M Vaughn directed by Franco Boni (Oct)
96-98 Wind 376 Dufferin St (July
28 - Aug 2 1998) and Buddies in Bad Times (July 1996) set designed with
Ron Perrault, choreographed by
Bill James
PUBlIC LECTURES AND CONFERENCES
05 Not architecture,
not performance University of Lethbridge (Nov 14)
Short Cuts and Detours Topophilia and Topophobia: Reflections on Human Habitat in the
20th
Century (Beijing June 1-3)
Displacements
in urban space - Urban Interventions: A Symposium on Artand the City
Images Festival, Toronto
(April 9-10)
There
Goes the Neighborhood: A discussion about artists and neighborhood change in
Toronto, Harbourfront
Center (April 7, 2005)
receptacles - surfaces - cameras - cartographies; University of California at San
Diego Visual
Arts (Mar 10)
04 Empty Spaces (receptacles,
vehicles) - CAFKA 2004, Kitchener (Sept 25)
Designing the city as a complex and integrated system - University of Toronto
Alumni at the
Canadian Embassy in Beijing (May 13)
Towards
a critical spatial practice - University of Michigan College of Architecture and Urban l
Planning
(March 2004)
03 Urban Design, a tool to create
a healthy city - Mayor's Conference on Urban Planning - l
Chongqing, China (July 12)
Towards a critical spatial practice - Chengdu School of Art and Music, Chengdu,
China (April l
18), Sichuan Institute of Fine Arts, Chongqing, China (March 31)
Drifting through Neo-liberal urbanism in Toronto - International Week Keynote
Address - l
University
of Alberta, Edmonton (January 27)
Material
Practice - University of Alberta, Faculty of Art and Design (January 27)
02 Art and Architecture - a
public conversation at the Canadian Center for Architecture,
Montreal with Christie
Pearson and Alexandre David (Oct 31)
Recent Projects Unboxed - Carleton University School of Architecture and Gallery
101
lecture l series on Art and Architecture - Carleton University, Ottawa (Oct
21)
Urban
Design and Social Structure in Toronto - Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities
- Socialist
Studies Session - University of Toronto (June 1)
A Critique of Toronto's Urban Design Handbook Strategies of Critique - Graduate
Student
Conference,
Program of Social and Political Thought - York University (March 23)
01 Interrupted Spaces
and Relational Strategies Department of Geography and Program in
Planning: Subterranean
Speaker's Series, University of Toronto (October 23)
Beyond Utopia: today's search for a better place a roundtable discussion
at
the Mackenzie Art Gallery (February 10)
00 Live/work spaces at
9 Hanna Avenue at Anti-Loft a three day symposium in Toronto
(March 31 - April 2)
99 Cameras, Play Spaces
and Other interruptions recent work. Centre space of the Faculty of
architecture at the University
of Manitoba, Winnipeg Manitoba (March 8)
98 Interventionism (with
Kika Thorne), A Space, 7a*11d performance art festival (August 23)
Interruptions
in Public space (with Kika Thorne) City, Space and Globalization Symposium at
the University of
Michigan School of Architecture (February 28)
95 Thingamajigs Recent
work at Working Papers: A series of lectures by young Toronto
architects at the Design Exchange, Toronto.
(October 6)
PUBLISHED WRITING
06 The gentrification
of gentrification and other strategies of Toronto's creative class in Fuse
(29:1,
Winter 2006)
05 Not Architecture not
performance: reworking the expanded field in Unboxed: Engagements
in Social space, Jen
Budney and Adrian Blackwell eds. (Ottawa: Gallery 101, August 2005)
Adrian
Blackwell - Lecture October 21 st 2002 in Unboxed: Engagements in Social space, Jen
Budney and Adrian Blackwell eds. (Ottawa: Gallery 101, August 2005)
04 Model for a Public
space, Public water closet in Only a Beginning: an Anarchist anthology
(Vancouver:
Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004)
Dutch Retreat (Canadian Architect, April)
1:1 over 1:300 Public - Localities (Fall 2004)
03 Spinning
off orbit Mercer Union Newsletter (January)
02 Poverty of Planning: Tent
City, City Hall and Toronto's New Official Plan - with Kanishka
Goonewardena published in: They Call it Struggle for a Reason (OCAP
newsletter - Dec
2002), Planners Network Magazine (Winter 2003) and The Contested Metropolis. Six Cities at
the Beginning of the 21 st Century(INURA,
2004)
Overcoming separations in urban space -title- Masters' Theses 2002, Faculty of Architecture,
Landscape
and Design, University of Toronto (Fall)
01 Possible strategies for a 'relational
architecture' Mixindependent art and culture(vol 27.2 fall)
00 Peter
MacCallum with Rosemary Heather Prefix (no.2 fall)
Affordability, Adaptability, Volume, Natural Light Lola(no.7 fall )
99 Public
Water Closet Inter (Spring no. 72)
97 Mattress
Square Mixindependent art and culture magazine (vol 23.2 fall)
PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS
04 Car Collective by Jan
Allen C magazine (84 Winter 04-05)
Urban Installations in Building/Art eds. Andrew King, Jocelyne Belisle,
and Lawrence Eisler
(Calgary:
University of Calgary Press, 2004)
03 Portlands People's Zone (with
Kika Thorne) Fuse (Vol 26, no.2)
02 Ambience of a Future City (with
Kika Thorne) Public - Experimentalism (Fall 2002)
01 Evicted
May 1, 2000 (9 Hanna Ave.) Public - Cities/Scenes (Winter 2002) Ladies
and
Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space by Rosemary Heather in Les Commensaux eds.
Patrice
Loubier and Anne-Marie Ninacs
(Montreal: Skol 2001) a
better place by Christine Shaw, Fuse magazine (vol.24 no.3) Urban
Dreams by Deidre Hannah, NOW Magazine (March 29) Exhibition
is ambitious by Jack
Anderson, The Leader Post,
Regina, (February 28)
00 Dundas Square in Practice, Practise, Praxis Scott
Sorli ed. YYZ
Books (September)
Centrifugal Exhibition
Catalog edited by Eileen Sommerman, Art Gallery of Hamilton (August)
Interventions MAWA (Fall)
Adrian Blackwell, Janis Demkiw and Alex Morrison Lola(no.7 fall)
Round and round we go, up and down we go Gary Michael Dault, The Globe and Mail (July
29)
Walk-on art... Thomas Hirschmann, The National Post (July 29)
Accidental Audience Exhibition catalogue for off/site @ torontoedited by Kim Pruesse
Centrifugal Mix Magazine (vol.25 no.3 Winter)
99 Letter from Hamilton Lisa
Gabrielle Mark, C International Contemporary Art (no.64
November)
Centrifugal Ivan
Jurakic, Lola (no. 5 Winter)
Art
Gallery Exposing itself in public Marsha Liederman, The National Post (Oct 16)
Spiral
Space Warehouse, University of Manitoba (vol. 08)
Spiral
space Interview with Phil Koch, Tart, Winnipeg (May June)
Fantasmatica Gary
Michael Dault in 1000 Words musings on the medium, Gallery TPW
Artlab
depicts transparencies of art and life Christina Vardanis, The Gazette UWO (vol.92.89)
When
art takes over Jesse Simon, The Manitoban (vol.86 no.21)
Trans Doug
Mitchell, Lola (no 4. Summer)
Samples
from the Fringe Gary Michael Dault, Canadian Architect (May)
Letter
from Toronto Lisa Gabrielle Mark, C Magazine (no.61 Feb - April)
98 Public Water Closet Alan
Antliff, Lola (no.3 winter )
October
Group Project, Alphabet City (no.6 Open City)
See-Through
Cities Lisa Gabrielle Mark, C Magazine (no.58)
All
That Glitters is Litter Kim Fullerton, Xtra magazine (April 1)
97 Man-size Headquarters Exhibition
Catalogue with text by Kenneth Hayes
Man-size
and Headquarters Brent Wegler, Parachute (no.88)
Political
Ephemera Marie-Paule MacDonald, Canadian Architect (January)
We
are not asleep Nancy J. White, Toronto Star (March 2 1997)
95 New Territories in
Educational Architecture John McMinn, Azure (September)
A
room in the garden Beth Kapusta, Canadian Architect (September)
92 Canoe/Camera Waterloo School of Architecture Journal (Spring)
90 Gnomonic Device Splinter (Fall)
86 Essential Hut Impulse,
Theoretical Architecture (Fall)
VIDEO
98 Mattress City (co-directed
with Kika Thorne) February group occupation of Nathan Phillips
Square 8 min. Best local film or video,
Images 1999. Screened: Images 1999,
Rogers Cable 10.
97 Sheet Sculpture (co-directed
with Kika Thorne) video, architecture, sculpture. 8 min.
Screened: Barcelona - 25 hours (2003), Pleasure
Dome (1997, 2002), Rogers Cable 10.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
05 Graham Foundation
for Architecture and the Arts, Grant for the publication Detours: Oblique
Maneuvers in the Chinese City with
Zhao Pei
03 Canada Council mid-Career
Visual Arts Grant
02 Governor General's Award
of Excellence, Mulmer Hills house no.1 by Ian MacDonald
Architect (Adrian Blackwell, project architect)
01 Toronto Arts Council,
production grant
99 Best Local Film or
Video, Images festival of Independent Film and Video - Mattress City
98 Canada Council B Grant,
Architecture.
97 Canadian Architect Award
of Excellence, Mulmer Hills house no.1 by Ian MacDonald
Architect (Adrian Blackwell - project architect)
95 Room in the garden
competition, First Prize - an architectural competition to design an
outdoor classroom for
Ossington Old Orchard Public School. (Toronto)
Canada council B Grant, Architecture.
91 University of Waterloo: Alumni
Gold Medal, AIA Medal .
89 University of Waterloo: Smale
Fellowship .
COLLECTIVES
05-03 Fuse Magazine Board
Member (03-05), Editorial Committee (05)
04-01 Planning Action participation
in Waterfront and Official Plan working groups
03-02 Reclaim the streets
collective (Toronto)
00-98 Anarchist Free
School (Toronto)
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