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The New Stone Age: Towards an Ethical Architecture
January 22 @ 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
The University of Toronto’s John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design invites the CivMin community to a free exhibit and public lecture exploring stone as a sustainable, load-bearing material in contemporary architecture.
Curated by UK-based architects GROUPWORK, The Stonemasonry Company and Webb Yates Engineers, the exhibition features large-scale stone-and-timber installations and traces the historical use of stone alongside projects by leading international architects.
Following the opening, curators Pierre Bidaud, Amin Taha and Steve Webb will present “A Measure of Architecture,” a lecture on stone’s history, applications, and emerging technologies. With less embodied carbon in stone than in reinforced concrete, they advocate for collaborative design models to address the climate crisis.
Viewed collectively, The New Stone Age: Towards an Ethical Architecture is a compelling call to action for a sustainable future.
Thursday, January 22
Exhibition opening with light refreshments at 5:00 p.m.
Jeffrey Cook Memoria Lecture at 6:30 p.m.
Daniels Building, 1 Spadina Crescent
Architecture + Design Gallery
Register: https://newstoneage.eventbrite.ca