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Practice Ecosystem
November 18 | 6 p.m. MT | Room L1060
Free admission, everyone welcome

Pablo Batista and Kelsey McMahon join us via zoom in Room L1060 for this presentation. 

For more than fifteen years, 5468796 Architecture has been pursuing a critical, architectural response to contemporary issues in multi-family housing and urban design, grounded in real-life practice-based experience and a tandem investigation into worldwide housing research and built work. The work has been awarded numerous recognitions nationally and internationally, including "50 Best Architectural Firms in 2020" by Domus, Rice Design Alliance Spotlight Award, the RAIC Emerging Architectural Practice Award, WAN 21 for 21, Architectural League of NY Emerging Voices, and the Design Vanguard issue of Architectural Record. In 2012, 5468796 represented Canada at the Venice Biennale in Architecture, and in 2013 they were selected as the recipient of the 2013 Prix de Rome Award in Architecture for Canada by the Canada Council for the Arts. The firm's work has been published in a number of books and publications, including Architectural Review, Architectural Record, Architect, Icon, Detail, Azure, Wallpaper, and Plan. In 2023, 5468796 Architecture published "platform:MIDDLE, Housing for the 99%" with Arquine.

Having joined the firm over a decade ago, Batista and McMahon, alongside firm partners Johanna Hurme, Sasa Radulovic and Colin Neufeld, are responsible for many of 546’s award winning projects both in Winnipeg and across Canada. They will be discussing the firm's practice ethos which spreads deep and wide beyond the traditional practice model, necessitating an understanding of how the architect's role in challenging contexts must increasingly intersect with politics, economics, social activism, and other forms of cultural and scholarly research and pragmatic engagement.

Image: Pumphouse, 5468796 Architecture, courtesy of the speakers. Photo credit: James Brittain.