Rutuja Atre, Intermediate Architect with Moriyama Teshima Architects, did a stellar job leading yesterday’s lunch and learn session, whereupon she shared her thesis presentation to our team.

Rutuja’s thesis project, entitled Towards an Ecocene: An Architecture of Hyper-Ecology, “demonstrates how architecture can operate sympathetically within ecological systems to accelerate the transformation from the Anthropocene — towards an ecologically aware and responsible era of the Ecocene”. She recently earned the Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) Guild Medal for this work she completed in her final year in Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU)’s Department of Architectural Science.