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Terrance Galvin, FRAIC, teaches design and histories + theories of architecture. He holds degrees in environmental design and architecture from the Technical University of Nova Scotia (TUNS), a Master’s in the History & Theory of Architecture from McGill University, and a doctorate in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania (PENN). Galvin began teaching at McGill University (Montréal), taught and served as Director of the Dalhousie School of Architecture in Halifax (2007-2010), and is presently Professor and Founding Director (2012-2017) of the McEwen School of Architecture in Sudbury, Canada. He has been active in architectural education through the RAIC, the CCUSA, and the NSAA, and has twice served as President of the Canadian Architectural Certification Board (CACB-CCCA) that accredits professional programs of architecture in Canada.
Dr. Galvin has been a visiting critic and lecturer at Schools of Architecture in Canada, the USA, Mexico, Germany and the UK. Publications and conference papers on a range of topics in architectural theory and education – including Angelology, Systems of Proportion, the Sir John Soane Museum, and Cultural Sustainability – have been shared widely. In 2012, he delivered an invited TEDx talk on architectural pre-knowledge and intuition.
Career highlights include being a University Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania; receiving the Sir John Soane Museum Foundation’s Fellowship; receiving an ‘Award for Teaching Excellence’ at Dalhousie; becoming a Paul Harris Fellow by the International Rotary Club (Sudbury), and being admitted to the RAIC College of Fellows in Ottawa.
Dr. Galvin is the current Chair of the McEwen International Advisory Board at Laurentian University. Current research includes being a site leader in a SSHRC ‘Partnership Grant’ entitled “Quality in Canada’s Built Environment: Roadmaps to Equity, Social Value and Sustainability.” He is presently on a research sabbatical in Ireland, where he is working on the 19th c. collaborative practice between Sir John Soane and Joseph Michael Gandy.
| 2021-2027 | SSHRC Partnership Grant (PG) entitled “Quality in Canada’s Built Environment: Roadmaps to Equity, Social Value and Sustainability.” With PG PI Dr. Jean-Pierre Chupin at Université de Montréal and with LU team members Dr. Thomas Strickland and Prof. Shannon Bassett. There are 14 research clusters in the consortium and the project funding is $2.5 million over 5 years. See www.livingatlasofquality.ca |
| 2021 | Evaluator for SSHRC grant application in Architecture (University of Manitoba). |
| 2020 | Evaluator, Full-Professor application, in Architecture (Carleton University). |
| 2020 | SSHRC Partnership Grant (Stage 1) Grant received: $20,000. Participant in a pan-Canadian partnership with Dr. Jean-Pierre Chupin at the Université de Montréal, as part of 14 Research Clusters. Proposal title was: “Access To Quality In Architecture for Sustainable and Equitable Public Built Environments in Canada.” Research Proposal successful; moved on to Stage 2. |
| 2019 | External Reviewer, SSHRC Canada Research Chair (CRC) and CIF application. |
| 2021 | Parry Sound Friendship Centre (PSFC), Parry Sound, ON. Invited by Indigenous staff at the PSFC to engage in a feasibility study for a new facility on First Nations land where the current Friendship Centre stands. Dr. David Fortin and I led a group of three MSoA students in a design visioning process with the staff. The study formed the basis for hiring an indigenous architect for the project. |
| 2020 | MSoA “Sudbury 2050 Urban Design Ideas Competition” – Professional Advisor to the Competition, along with Blaine Nicholls (see: www.ccc.umontreal.ca & www.Sudbury2050.ca ) |
| 2020 | LAG (Library and Art Gallery), Sudbury, ON. I was invited as a community design consultant for the RFP submission by 3rdLine Studio (Tim James) with Hariri Pontarini Architects (Toronto) for the design of a new Library and Art Gallery for the City of Greater Sudbury. |
| 2019 | Expo 2020 – Canadian Pavilion in Dubai, UAE . Invited by Bruce Mau, then Chief Design Officer at Freeman Company. McEwen School of Architecture professors Dr. Terrance Galvin, Dr. David Fortin, Randall Kober and Will Morin were culture consultants for the design of the Expo 2020 submission made by Mau and Freeman. The diverse Design Team, working from London, Chicago, Holland and Sudbury created a pavilion narrative that captured the diversity and indigeneity of Canada’s story of the land and the forest from coast to coast. We lost to Moriyama and Teshima Architects. |
| 2019 | OAA “SHIFT 2019 Infrastructure/Architecture Challenge” – invited jury member (with Janna Levitt, Ken Greenberg, Raymond Moriyama, etc.) |
| 2022-2023 | Redesign of the YMCA reception desk, according to AODA code (FedNor grant) with Landen James and Siah Klassen |
| 2022 | Design-Build projects for Durham Street, with third yr. students from MSoA |
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| 2023 (forthcoming) | “Embodied Design Theory, Indigenous Cosmologies and the Creation of Place.” Architectural Research Quarterly (ARQ), UK. Invited by Editor-in-chief, Dr. Adam Sharr. Vol. TBA. |
| 2022 | “Under One Roof: Grand Sudbury’s New Place des Arts.”Canadian Architect, vol. 67, No. 8 (Nov. 2022). iQ Business Media Inc., pp. 35-40. |
| 2021 | “Sudbury’s school of architecture is a gem, so hands off, LU. ”Article by Terrance Galvin and David Robinson. The Sudbury Star, April 28, 2021. |
| 2020 | “McEwen School of Architecture announces winners of Sudbury2050.” Laurentian University News Release, Dec. 10, 2020. |
| 2019 (referenced) | Lam, Elsa and Graham Livesey (Editors). Canadian Modern Architecture: 1967 to the present. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2019. Laurentian quoted with my curriculum ‘Bauhaus Turtle Diagram,’ pp. 151-152. |
| 2021 | Appointed Fellow, Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC), (Ottawa, ON) |
| 2019 | Paul Harris Fellow, Rotary Club International (Sudbury, ON). Award for ‘service above self.’ |