Ted Cullinan, Hon. FRAIC

Thursday, June 14 – College of Fellows Convocation Ceremony (Keynote Speaker)

RIBA Royal Gold Medallist Ted Cullinan is an inquisitive, inventive and passionate composer and maker of buildings. He was educated at Cambridge, the Architectural Association and Berkeley. He trained with Denys Lasdun where he designed the student residences at the University of East Anglia before setting up his own practice in 1959. While teaching at Cambridge in 1965, he established Edward Cullinan Architects as a co-operative.

Ted has taught and examined extensively in this country and abroad, being awarded five Professorships: Banister Fletcher Professor at the Bartlett (1978-79), Graham Willis Visiting Professor at Sheffield (1985- 87), George Simpson Visiting Professor at Edinburgh (1987-90), Visiting Professor at MIT (1985), and currently at the University of Nottingham. He has been awarded honorary doctorates at the Universities of Lincolnshire and Humberside (1996), East London (2000) and Sheffield (2001).

Ted received a CBE in 1987 for services to architecture, and was elected a Royal Academician in 1989 and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland in 1995. In 2005, he achieved a Special Commendation: Prince Philip Designers Prize, for his outstanding achievement in design. In 2008, he was awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in recognition of a lifetime’s work in architecture and in 2010 the RSA made him a Royal Designer for Industry. He has been an active trustee of Sir John Soane’s Museum, the Construction Industry for Youth Trust, the Building Experiences Trust and the Koestler Award Trust for art in prisons.

Ted’s tenacious commitment in striving for excellence in design continues to inspire our practice. He delights in trying out design ideas through the hands-on experience of construction. With the help of friends and students, Ted has designed and built six houses, including Gib Tor Farm as a family retreat in north Staffordshire.

Peter Busby, FRAIC

Wednesday, June 13 – Opening Reception

Peter is involved in the design and sustainable direction of each project the firm engages. Peter directs over 100 employees working on projects across Canada, the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. As a director of Perkins+Will since 2004, Peter’s role includes sustainable design leadership to the firm’s 23 offices worldwide and Perkins+Will have been recognized internationally as the leader in sustainable building design. With over 25 years of successful projects completed under Peter’s guidance and across market sectors, the firm has received more than 100 design honours, including six Governor General Awards and 11 Lieutenant Governor Awards. Peter is a founder and recent Chair of the Canada Green Building Council, and he has devoted much of his time to his profession, to the community, and to the advancement of sustainable education and practices. In recognition of his professional and community contributions, Peter became a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada in 1997, and in 2005 Peter was invested as a member of the Governor General’s Order of Canada, the country’s highest civilian award that recognizes a lifetime of outstanding achievement, dedication to the community and service to the nation. In 2008 Peter was conferred an Honorary Doctorate in Science by Ryerson University and in 2011 was named a Cascadia Fellow.

Robert Mellin, FRAIC

Thursday, June 14 – Plenary

Robert Mellin is an Associate Professor at the School of Architecture at McGill University in Montreal. He studied at the Pennsylvania State University (B.Arch., M.Sci), McGill University (M.Arch), and the University of Pennsylvania (M.Sci., Ph.D.). In 2002 he was elected to membership in the R.C.A. (Royal Canadian Academy). He has been a registered architect in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador since 1978, and he was elected to Fellowship in the RAIC in 2009. He has received eight Southcott Awards for his heritage conservation projects in Newfoundland, and in 2005 he received a Manning Award from the Historic Sites Association of Newfoundland and Labrador. In 2006 he received the Paul E. Buchanan Award for excellence in fieldwork and interpretation from the Vernacular Architecture Forum. He is past-Chair of the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador. His book Tilting: House Launching, Slide Hauling, Potato Trenching and Other Tales from a Newfoundland Fishing Village was published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2003 and it won the Winterset Literary Award. His chapter on the Ludlow premises in Joe Batt's Arm, Fogo Island appears in the anthology Despite This Loss: Essays on Culture, Memory, and Identity in Newfoundland and Labrador (St. John's: ISER, 2010). In 2011, Professor Mellin’s book Newfoundland Modern: Architecture in the Smallwood Years, 1949-1972, was published as part of the McGill Queen’s/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History series.

Gerald Penney

Friday, June 15 – Luncheon

Archaeologist Gerald Penney draws on 30 years as a heritage consultant to reflect on the past and future of St. John’s.

Gerald Penney Associates Limited (GPA) provides multi-disciplinary consulting services to development projects throughout the Province, and has recently been involved in the six-year re-development of the City’s sewer system. This has given rise to some interesting observations concerning its fugitive history.