Prizes
The jury will award first, second and third place prizes. They may also award a special mention at their discretion. Winners of these prizes will receive a selection of recent CCA publications as well as Friends of the CCA memberships with numerous benefits.
jury members
Peter Soland
Peter Soland has over 32 years of experience designing for and thinking about the city, public space and the landscape. Trained at Université de Montréal’s School of Architecture (1990) and holding a master's degree in environmental design from Yale University, he is an architect, landscape architect and urban planner. In 2015, he co-founded civiliti, a continuation of his 15 years of professional practice under the name Ubran Soland.
An indefatigable wanderer and observer, Peter anchors his work in a singular approach to the city, which seeks the perfect balance between identity, design and feasibility. He aspires to create inclusive urban landscapes which bear the city’s identity and lend a poetic charge to sometimes undervalued built spaces. He draws inspiration for his writings in the history of places, while also seeking new interpretations. Many projects conceived and supervised by him have earned recognition in Canada and abroad.
Peter is a seasoned coordinator of multidisciplinary teams, communicating with a skill and clarity that is essential to the successful completion of large urban projects. His leadership, marked by conviction, sensitivity and respect for all involved parties, makes possible the realization of iconic projects.
Ji-Yoon Han
Ji-Yoon Han (PhD) is a curator and independent researcher working in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. Eagerly interdisciplinary, her collaborations with artists seek to highlight the power of works and images amongst shifting social, cultural and psychic contexts.
In 2023, she was the guest curator for MOMENTA Biennale de l’image, and organized an edition titled Masquerades: Drawn to Metamorphosis.
Since 2022, she is a guest researcher at the Photography Cabinet, Centre Pompidou – Musée national d’art moderne, Paris.
Lola Sheppard
Lola Sheppard is Professor at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture and a founding partner, together with Mason White, of Lateral Office, a Toronto-based architecture practice.Lola is committed to design as a research vehicle to pose and respond to complex, urgent questions in the built environment, engaging in the wider context and climate of a project– social, ecological, or political. For the past fifteen years, Lateral Office have been pursuing research and design work on the role of architecture as a tool of cultural empowerment in rural and remote regions, working closely with First Nation and Inuit partners.
Lateral Office has presented their work at the Venice Biennale (2021), Oslo Triennale (2019), Seoul Biennale (2017), the Chicago Biennale (2015) and they were awarded a Special Mention at the 2014 Venice Biennale for Architecture. Lola Sheppard is co-author, with Mason White, of the book Many Norths: Spatial Practice in a Polar Territory (Actar 2017) and of Pamphlet Architecture 30, COUPLING: Strategies for Infrastructural Opportunism, published by Princeton Architectural Press (2011). Sheppard and White are also co-editors of the journal Bracket.