Paul Kulig

Born into an immigrant family of makers, bakers, tailors and artisans, Paul Kulig was raised in a community that practiced city building as a collective craft. His family built houses together, fixed cars together and hosted refugee families together. Kulig has built on this understanding of community to address broad social issues through urban design and architecture.

Loreta Castro Reguera

In 2010, Loreta Castro Reguera co-founded Taller Capital with José Ambrosi. The Mexican architecture, landscape and urban design firm is focused on projects where design serves as the instrument that stitches the territory together, creating retroactive infrastructures. Starting from a detailed observation of the context, the architectural expression lies in providing spatial quality through material austerity. The firm has designed and built various buildings and public spaces; and received national and international recognition, including the MCHAP Emerge 2022, Architecture Award at the XII Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, Silver Medal at the Biennial of Mexican Architecture, and the Emerging Voices award presented by the Architectural League of New York, among others.

Kelty Miyoshi McKinnon

In a rapidly urbanizing world, public spaces that support dense, transit-oriented and socio-economically diverse urban environments are among our best tools for fighting climate change and creating resilient communities. Hear from Perkins&Will’s Paul Kulig and SpruceLab’s Sheila Boudreau on Toronto’s Meadoway; gh3*’s Pat Hanson on public realm architecture and infrastructure designed to uplift; Taller Capital’s Loreta Castro Reguera on her firm’s projects in Mexico; and PFS Studio’s Kelty McKinnon on the Vision Plan for the West End Waterfront in downtown Vancouver.

Pat Hanson

Under Pat Hanson’s leadership, gh3* has established a reputation for design integrity across a range of typologies and through all scales of practice. Exemplary projects include the internationally-recognized Kathleen Andrews Transit Garage in Edmonton, Toronto’s Storm Water Facility in the new west Don Lands, and the Boathouse Studio on Stony Lake, Ontario.

Sheila Boudreau

Sheila Boudreau is Principal Landscape Architect + Planner at SpruceLab, an Indigenous and women-owned and -operated planning and landscape architecture firm with offices in Toronto, Hamilton, and Edmonton. She has over three decades of experience in both the private and public sectors following degrees in Landscape Architecture and Fine Art (University of Guelph), and a Master of Arts in Planning (University of Waterloo). Boudreau established SpruceLab in 2020 to be collaborative and nature-based with a community focus.