Jane Wolff. Photo: Amir Gavriel
The University of British Columbia School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (UBC SALA) has named Jane Wolff as the recipient of the 2022 Margolese Design for Living Prize. The Saint Louis born, Toronto-based landscape designer and scholar uses public engagement, writing, and drawing to help disparate communities make sense of the natural and human-made environment.
The Margolese Prize will be celebrated with a public presentation and panel discussion at the Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre on UBC campus in Vancouver on October 3, 2022, at 6pm.
Wolff drawing the edge of San Francisco Bay to think about vocabulary terms for Bay Lexicon. Photo: Susan Schwartzenberg
One of the highest design accolades in Canada, the annual $50,000 Margolese Prize spotlights a Canadian citizen who uses design to encourage a greater understanding of the built environment. ?Jane Wolff enriches places and elevates the lives of people through design,? says UBC SALA Director Ron Kellett. ?Her innovative methods address the intersections of built and natural environments, in a creatively accessible way.? An early study by Wolff explores vocabulary related to San Francisco Bay
A Professor at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto, Wolff works on the premise that different people see and experience the same landscape in various ways, and her research goal is to unite these diverse perceptions into a universally ...