On March 19, Susan Fitzgerald, partner, award-winning architect and design principal at FBM Architecture | Interior Design, hosted the first Building Equality in Architecture Atlantic (BEA Atlantic) Talk to be held in Nova Scotia.
BEA Atlantic was publicly launched in Saint John, New Brunswick at the 2018 Royal Architecture Institute of Canada (RAIC) Festival in collaboration with Building Equality in Architecture Toronto (BEAT). The Atlantic organization aims to connect the Atlantic Provinces through public outreach events, lectures, workshops and initiatives to develop strategies and practices of equality in architecture.
Susan Fitzgerald delivers the inaugural BEA Atlantic talk in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
?An organization like BEA Atlantic is very much needed to help amplify diverse voices within our industry,? said Fitzgerald. ?Mentoring young people coming up in this field has been an integral part of my work, which makes collaborating with BEAA such an ideal fit.? Susan?s lecture, ?In Between Research and Practice: Diversity and Resilience in Architecture?, focused on how we read the city, and how a greater understanding of it might lead to a more diverse and resilient architecture.
Pulling experience from current projects in Halifax, and ongoing research in Havana, Cuba, Susan highlighted the need for projects within cities to embrace broad social and economic synergies rather than being singular in intention. Such a strategy leads to resilience, both in ecosystems and ...