Lecture by Marie-Claude Dubois & Fouad Khalil

The last event of the Winter 2026 Laurentian Architecture Lecture Series is scheduled for Monday Mar.16 at 5:45 pm in the Lecture Hall. The international speakers will be Canadian-Swedish architect and Full Professor Marie-Claude Dubois (Lund University, Sweden) and Fouad Khalil (Modly Design, Birmingham, AL, USA), who will talk about the design of a major mass timber building in Sweden from the perspectives of the architect and daylighting consultant. This lecture is presented by the Northern Ontario Society of Architects (NOSA), in collaboration with the Ontario Association of Architects. It is free and open to all.

Marie-Claude Dubois is Professor in the Department of Building and Environmental Technology at Lund University (Sweden), where she supervises theses, teaches undergraduate and graduate courses, and participates in international research projects. She previously served as sustainability specialist at White Arkitekter (Sweden) from 2012 to 2020, Associate Professor at Laval University’s School of Architecture from 2003 to 2010 (Canada), and senior researcher at the Danish Building Research Institute from 2001 to 2003 (Denmark). She is the main author of the book Daylighting and Lighting under a Nordic Sky and has contributed to the design and environmental certification of numerous buildings in Scandinavia and internationally. She has also delivered many public lectures and scientific communications on daylighting, lighting, building simulation, solar shading, solar energy, and climatic design.

Fouad Khalil has over twenty years of experience as a designer, manager and technologist in the US and overseas. Prior to forming Modly, he served as BLOX director of design and as creative director at White Arkitekter (Sweden), the largest architecture firm in the Nordics, where he was lead designer on several significant projects. His experience is also rooted in prefabrication and offsite construction. Fouad was also a member of the corporate leadership team at White and led several R&D and technology initiatives at the company. In addition to his professional activity, he has served as a visiting critic at a number of academic institutions. He is an Auburn Graduate and earned his B.Arch. there in 2000.

The lecture qualifies for two (2) Ontario Association of Architects Continuing Education Structured Learning Hours.

Be sure to join us!