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Lecture Series: Talbot Sweetapple

Date
February 04, 2027
Time
6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. ET
Location
Department of Architectural Science, 325 Church St, ARC 202 (the Pit)
Open To
Public

Lecture Title:

Land, Making, and Meaning

Description:

Meaning emerges through the relationship between land and making. Landscape, climate, geology, and history give rise to the traditions of a place. Through craft, material culture, and local construction knowledge, architecture both reflects and reinterprets regional building culture. In a fight against global uniformity, our work is a form of resistance to placelessness.

 

Nightshot of a building's exterior
Overhead shot of a building's exterior with the view of the ocean
A building's exterior on a patch of land
Talbot Sweetapple

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Talbot Sweetapple, Architect, Associate Professor, BA (Dalhousie), BEDS, MArch (TUNS), FRAIC, AIA  NSAA, AAPEI, AANB, NLAA, NH, WA, NY, MA

Talbot was born in St. John鈥檚, Newfoundland, on the East coast of Canada. In 1989, he attended Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia and received a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Philosophy. In 1997, he graduated with a Master of Architecture as a Sexton Scholar in the Faculty of Architecture at the Technical University of Nova Scotia. He was also a recipient of the American Institute of Architects Medal.

After working in both Berlin and Toronto, Talbot joined Brian MacKay-Lyons Architecture Urban Design in 1999. He then became a partner in 2005 to form . Talbot has helped the firm build its reputation for design excellence, earning numerous awards, including seven AIA National and International Honor Awards. In 2014, MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects won the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Firm Award. In 2017, Brian and Talbot were honoured as laureates of the prestigious Global Award for Sustainable Architecture by the Cite de l鈥橝rchitecture et du Patrimoine in Paris, under the patronage of UNESCO.

Talbot has held several visiting Professorships at leading universities and is currently an Associate Professor at Dalhousie University鈥檚 Faculty of Architecture. Talbot was named Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada in 2018.  

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