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Chair and Professor
Lois Weinthal, SID 108
phone (416) 979-5000 ext. 5188
Professor Weinthal”¦s practice investigates the relationship between architecture, interiors, clothing and objects, resulting in works that take on an experimental nature. Her teaching explores these topics where theoretical discussions in seminars are put into practice in the design studio. These ideas are then tested as full-scale constructs in order to explore the fabrication of ideas. Her seminar teaching led to the publication Toward a New Interior: An Anthology of Interior Design Theory (2011) published by Princeton Architectural Press. Additional significant publications include After Taste: Expanded Practice in Interior Design co-edited with Kent Kleinman and Joanna Merwood-Salisbury (2011) also published by Princeton Architectural Press based upon the symposium After Taste started at Parsons The New School for Design. She is co-editor with Graeme Brooker on the publication, the Handbook of Interior Design and Architecture (Fall 2013) by Berg Publishers. Examples of full-scale student work produced from her courses can be found in an award winning essay, ”„House Lab”¦ published in the JAE Journal of Architectural Education (2006) which received the Best Design as Scholarship Award from the ACSA (Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture) in 2008.
She has received grants from the Graham Foundation, Fulbright, and DAAD and has exhibited and lectured nationally and internationally. Previously she was Director of the Interior Design Program at Parsons The New School for Design and Graduate Advisor for the Master of Interior Design Program in the School of Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin. She received her Master of Architecture from Cranbrook Academy of Art and Bachelor of Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design. She has received the NCIDQ certificate and is a member of IDEC and ARIDO.
Associate Chair
Barbara Vogel, SID206
phone (416) 979-5000 ext. 6927
Associate Professor Barbara Vogel
received her Masters of Science in
Architecture at the University of
Technology in Krakow Poland. She has
pursued her professional career in
Poland, Finland and Canada. She was
a Design Director in Arthur Erikson
Architects office in Toronto (in
charge of the Canadian Embassy in
Washington, King Ranch Health Spa,
Prime Minister's offices and other
various projects in Canada and
abroad.) Currently she is a partner
in the Vogel Architect office (main
projects: Canadian Embassies in
Berlin, Seoul and the Hague.) She
received Ontario Association of
Architects 1999 Award of
Architectural Excellence for the
experimental Summer Retreat Project.
Professor Vogel's projects have been
featured in various architectural
magazines in Canada and abroad.
She is a registered Architect with
the Ontario Association of
Architects, and a dormant member of
Polish and Finnish Architects
Associations, as well as an
affiliated member of ARIDO. She is
an elected member of the Royal
Canadian Academy of Arts and a
Professor Vogel is acting as the
Upper School Coordinator as well as
the 4th year design studio
coordinator.
Taymoore R. Balbaa, SID206
phone (416) 979-5000 ext 3151
Taymoore Balbaa is an Assistant Professor at RSID, and a founding partner of design firm Atelier3AM. He received his Masters of Architecture from the University of Waterloo and won the RAIC Medal for his thesis. In 2005, he received the Canada Council for the Arts”¦ Prix de Rome in Architecture for Emerging Practitioners, In April 2011 he received the inaugural Young Architect Award, granted by the RAIC. He also holds a Bachelor of Environmental Studies from Waterloo, and studied architecture at Universita Gabrielle D”¦Annunzio in Pescara, Italy. Taymoore is a licensed architect in Ontario (OAA) and in the European Union with the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE). With Atelier3AM, and previously as principal of Taymoore Balbaa Architect, he is developing a body of work that includes libraries, modular & social housing, temporary structures, cultural centres, and projects of urban revitalization. Prior to this he worked in the offices of Menis Arquitectos (Tenerife, Spain), KPMB Architects (Toronto, ON), Massimiliano Fuksas (Rome, Italy), HLW International (New York, NY) and, in 1998, assisted on the Parthenon Restoration Project (Athens, Greece). At both Graduate and Undergraduate levels, Taymoore has taught at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture, the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design (University of Toronto), and at Ryerson University”¦s Dept. of Architectural Science, and has lectured at universities in Berlin, Toronto, Napoli, Tunis, Istanbul, Halifax, Sardegna, and Ottawa.
Lorella Di Cintio, SID311
phone (416) 979-5000 ext. 6938
Professor Di Cintio has been
educated in Canada, United States,
and Europe in the fields of Interior
Design, Architecture, Arts
Education, Urban Planning, and
Philosophy. Her scholarly research
contributions have been extensively
on Design Methodologies and Media,
with a specialty focus on Design
Competitions, Design Activism, and
Transversal Design. Professor Di
Cintio is an associate of the Centre
for Studies in Food Security. She
also serves as an academic reviewer
for the Journal of Interior Design.
She has exhibited her creative work
internationally in New York, Tokyo,
Japan, London, and Sweden. She
maintains an interior design
practice and provides design
consultation for not-for-profits and
for-profit organizations.
Catherine Dowling, SID212
phone (416) 979- 5000 ext 6935
Catherine graduated from the
Architecture School at the
University of Waterloo following a
degree in Interior Design from the
university of Manitoba and study at
Arcosanti in Arizona. As an intern
Architect and NCIDQ recipient her
professional practice is found ed on
design and construction excellence,
constantly exploring the process of
making. Her collaborative studio,
Dowling Architet, most recently
recived an Ontario Association of
Architects 2005 Honourable Mention
for a Painter's Studio in Dundas,
Ontario.
Andrew Furman, SID211
phone (416) 979- 5000 ext 6929
Andrew Furman holds professional
design degrees in both interior
design and architecture. He has
practiced across Canada encompassing
a diverse range of projects in both
disciplines. His research and
creative work interests investigates
the role of personal mobility and
artistic practice in public
interiors and urban areas. Recent
projects include public art
commissions such as the
commemorative bench for Tarragon
Theatre and serving on the task
force for the Kimball Office Working
Group representing Interior
Designers and IDEC, in order to
explore the future of Interior
Design education in North America.
He is the Upper School Coordinator
and recently hosted the first
international student design
competition for Ryerson University
to reimagine Gould Street as a
pedestrian precinct for students.
Adam Kolodziej, SID304
phone (416) 979-5000 ext 6932
Adam holds a Master of Science in
Architecture and a Master of Art in
Theatre, Film and Television Design.
He views the role of the designer in
both these fields as the same;
designing a stage for life. Adam is
currently a member of the Directors
Guild of Canada and the Canadian
Academy of Cinema and Television as
well as an Affiliate member of ARIDO.
In his film and television design
work he has been involved as Art
Director for a number of TV series
such as Earth Final Conflict, F/X
and Tekwar. As a Theater set
designer, he has worked on
productions for the Opera Lyra at
the National Arts Centre in Ottawa,
Theatre Calgary, The Vancouver
Playhouse and the Theatre Aquarius
in Hamilton, as well the Canadian
Stage Company, Young People?s
Theatre and the Tarragon Theatre.
His interior architectural practice
includes projects in Germany,
Nigeria, Poland and England.
Annick Mitchell, SID108
phone (416) 979-5000 ext. 5188
Professor Annick Mitchell's
professional practise as an Interior
Designer, and her teaching career at
Ryerson University, are grounded in
interdisciplinary interests that
have been fostered by a degree in
Modern History at the University of
Toronto and later studies in Applied
Design at Sheridan College.
Designing hundreds of thousand of
square feet of interior space and
working with multimillion dollar
budgets, she has been involved in
facility planning, design
development, project
implementation and management. Her
broad client base in the corporate
sector includes companies such as
Texaco, the Bank of Montreal, Credit
Foncier, Union Carbide and Dupont
Canada. She has also worked with
many institutional and government
clients such as the Shaw Festival
Theatre, Queen's University, Canada
Post, York County Hospital and Mount
Sinai Hospital.
This world of practise has
significantly informed Professor
Mitchell's teaching in her twenty
two years at Ryerson University. As
a professor in Interior Design,
Technology and Design Dynamics, she
has facilitated advances in the
researching and teaching of
materials and finishes. She also
conducts research in creativity and
the design process. Her teaching
philosophy is process-centred:
design is a constantly shifting
experiment in approaches, problems,
and methodologies. An active member
of the University community,
Professor Mitchell continues to
serve on university committees. She
is presently the Interim Chair of
the School of Interior Design.
Professor Mitchell is a member of
ARIDO (Association of Registered
Interior Designers of Canada) and
IDC (Interior Designers of Canada).
Jana Macalik, SID205
phone (416) 979-5000 ext 7627
Skills are learned, attitudes are
cultivated. Jana believes university
is a place for greater exploration
of ideas and attitudes rather than
purely attaining skills for future
employment. Jana marries her talents
and experience in architecture and
interior design, developing a unique
understanding and passion for
spatial communication. She holds a
Master of Architecture and a
Bachelor of Environmental Design
Studies. In her professional
practice, she has specialized in
museum exhibition design and branded
environments and has been involved
in projects in Canada and the U.S.
Jana is committed to the practice of
interior design as an intellectual
pursuit and a discipline requiring
education, skill, practice and
individual creativity. The emphasis
in her teaching philosophy is to
direct students toward evolving and
expressing their ideas visually,
spatially, and verbally. Ultimately,
to teach is to learn. Jana has
received her NCIDQ certificate.
Filiz Onguc-Klassen, SID309
phone (416) 979-5000 ext. 6937
Associate Professor Filiz Klassen
holds a Master of Architecture
degree in Architectural Design from
McGill University (1990) and a
Bachelor of Architecture with
honours from Middle East Technical
University (1987). She has received
the NCIDQ certificate. Her research
focuses on transportability and
sustainability of built environments
in a hybrid practice of fashion,
furniture, interiors, architecture
and industrial design. Her research
projects involve the exploration of
alternative, lightweight materials
and fabrication methods for common
design problems in built or made
environments. She has presented
internationally in Singapore,
London, and New York and been a
guest lecturer at Delft and Ankara.
Her articles were published most
recently in a book entitled
Transportable Environments II, and
in academic and professional
journals such as the International
Journal of Art and Design Education,
Building and On Site Architecture
Magazine. She is also an independent
curator. Her most recent curation,
Home: Mobile, Modular and Light, was
on display as part of Digifest at
Design Exchange Museum, May 2004.
Filiz Klassen is the co-editor of
the third book on Transportable
Environments by Spoon Press
following the conference she
co-chaired. Further information can
be obtained from www.ryerson.ca/portable.
Michael Plasse-Taylor, SID210
phone (416) 979-5000 ext. 6928
Michael brings extensive educational
and professional Interior Design
experience to the School of Interior
Design. After the completion of his
Masters of Science in Interior
Design degree from Pratt Institute
(1982) in New York, Michael stayed
to work on prestigious projects: the
American Express Headquarters in
Battery Park, Penguin Publishers
Headquarters, and the restoration of
the Statue of Liberty. In Canada, he
has worked as the Project Interior
Designer for the official offices
and residences of the Prime
Minister, the Ontario Provincial
Police Headquarters in Orillia, and
more recently won a historical
preservation accolade for his retail
design in Markham, Ontario. Michael
has served as vice-president of the
Provincial Interior Design Institute
of Manitoba, and will be serving on
the FIDER board of visitors. He has
received the NCIDQ certificate.
Julia Scalzo, SID305
phone (416) 979-5000 ext. 6933
Julia received her Ph.D. in Art
History from the University of
Toronto. Her current research
interests concern the ways in which
the relationship between design
professionals and their patrons
contributed to the formulation of
the Modern Movement in design. She
has taught numerous courses in the
history of art and design, and
contemporary issues in design
practice, at Ryerson University, and
courses in the history of
architecture at the University of
Toronto.
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