VIA Architecture Urban Design Lecture - Toronto Reflections: How Toronto Learned to Stop Worrying And Love Vancouver
Christopher Hume, Architectural and Urban Critic
If you want to know what’s happening in and to Toronto, Christopher Hume is the indispensable guide. As the architecture and urban critic for the Toronto Star, his columns tell the stories about the cultural projects that are changing the face of Toronto -- the Royal Ontario Museum, the National Ballet School, Art Gallery of Ontario and more. In this VIA Architecutre Lecture he’ll also talk about why Torontonians envy Vancouver and how he thinks Vancouver is the city gets the private-sector development right (yes, condos) and Toronto still can't.
Biography
Christopher Hume is the architecture critic and urban issues columnist of the Toronto Star. Since he started writing for the paper in 1981, Hume has been nominated for four National Newspaper Awards (critical writing category) and has received a certificate of appreciation from the Ontario Association of Architects. His book, William James' Toronto Views, won a Toronto Heritage Award in 2000. In 2004, he received a Landscape Ontario award. Hume appears frequently on radio and television as a commentator on city issues. Hume was named Toronto's best newspaper columnist by NOW magazine in 2005 and Eye magazine in 2006. Born in England in 1951, he came to Canada as a child. He was educated at the University of Toronto and Glendon College. Known as a champion of cities and the arts, Hume lives in downtown Toronto with his wife and two daughters.
June 5, 2008, 7 pm
Venue: SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings, Vancouver
Admission to public lecture is free; reservations are required.
Email cstudies@sfu.ca or call 778-782.5100.