Lecture by Mason White, Professor at the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, & Design at the University of Toronto and founding principal of Lateral Office, an experimental design practice that operates at the intersection of architecture, landscape, and urbanism.

Mason White is a founding Partner at Lateral Office and a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC). He is Professor at the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design at the University of Toronto, where he has taught since 2005. He has also held visiting positions at Harvard University, Cornell University, Ohio State University, and UC Berkeley. He is co-editor of the publication series Bracket (Applied Research & Design, Actar), co-editor of Third Coast Atlas (Actar), co-author of Many Norths (Actar), and co-author of Pamphlet Architecture #30: Coupling (Pamphlet Architecture). White's creative practice incorporates both design-based research and research-based design through collaborative methods and experimental representational techniques. Consistently, White's creative practice and scholarship interrogates architecture's messy relationship with environment and place.

Image: Contested Circumpolar: Domestic Territories, 2021. Credit: Lateral Office + Arctic Design Group