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Architecture & Design NOW series presents: Barry Johns
BAAKFIL© Addressing the Housing Crisis
6 p.m. | February 26, 2024
Room L1060, ULethbridge Library building

Barry Johns joins us virtually in room L1060 for this talk.

This session examines the evolution and development of BAAKFIL, a practice-based research doctoral thesis about the housing crisis that examines practical and innovative ways to address attainability, affordability and multigenerational living. It is endorsed by housing experts and urban designers around North America as new knowledge about affordability with respect, and the sustainable, resilient city.

Barry Johns is an award winning, widely published architect in Edmonton, Alberta. He is a former Chancellor of the College of Fellows, Royal Architectural Institute of Canada from 2011 – 2017 and Director of Practice for the Alberta Association of Architects from 2015 – 2019. His career includes an extensive tenure with Arthur Erickson in Vancouver and spans private practice, teaching and public service. He is the first international recipient of the Leslie M. Boney medal from the American Institute of Architects where he is an Honorary Fellow, for outstanding service to the profession. He received the Doctor of Design (DDES) from the University of Calgary in 2023 for his pioneering work in developing BAAKFIL, an approach to addressing the housing crisis in Canada, soon to be published by Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. A monograph entitled Barry Johns Architects, was published by TUNS Press in 2000 and an eBook on the firm’s later work is available at www.bjalstudio.ca.

Image courtesy of the speaker. Model by Ellis Associates. Photo by Jim Dobie.