The Globe and Mail

Lisa Rochon is the architecture critic for The Globe and Mail, an author and public speaker. She writes from her base in Toronto and, also, from disparate cities such as the increasingly fluid New York City to sustainable Copenhagen to the reinvented slums of Medellin, provoking new ways to think about architecture and cities that resonate and endure.

Lisa is the author of UP NORTH: Where Canada’s Architecture Meets the Land, praised as “the definitive guide to Canada’s contemporary architecture”. She is a contributing editor to Modern North (Princeton, 2010) and Alphabet City’s AIR (2010) and Trash, (2007), both published by the MIT Press. Her photography and personal notes about great design from around the world can be found on her blog, chasinghome.org.

She often serves as a jury member for design competitions and as a keynote speaker lecturing on supersizing the vision of architecture and city building, reconstructing devastated cities and cities and wellness.

From 1998 to 2005, Lisa taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. Her graduate seminar on the reconstruction of devastated cities “Post-Crisis Scenarios; Life Among the Ruins” was launched following 9-11.

She holds an M.A. in Urban Design Studies from the University of Toronto. Before that, Lisa studied international relations at l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris. Her honours degree in journalism and French was completed at Carleton University, Ottawa.