OAW 2025 - Forum Lecture - Re-collection(s): Past-to-Present, Russell Acton

Date: Monday, September 29th.

Time: 6 PM

Location: Ottawa Art Gallery

Presented by the Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism in collaboration with the Ottawa Regional Society of Architects. No registration required, open to all.

Since 1969, the Carleton Azrieli School of Architecture has been an inspiring Ottawa staple, introducing architects, designers, and the general community to the leading architectural thinkers of the day.

In a typical Forum Lecture Series style, the 60–minute lecture will be followed by an informal Q&A session.

The Forum Lecture series is a long-held tradition of the school. First initiated in 1968 and popularized in the 1980s and early 1990s the lecture series is an inspiring event, introducing the Carleton community to leading architectural thinkers of the day. Held during the academic year, approximately one lecture is held per month from the end of September to March. — carleton.ca

Russell Acton Architect AIBC AAA OAA FRAIC

Founding Principal, Acton Ostry Architects Re-collection(s): Past-to-Present Russell Acton is a graduate of the Carleton School of Architecture and founding principal of Acton Ostry Architects (AOA), a leading Vancouver-based practice recognized for the design of engaging, eloquent and inspiring buildings that embody a consideration to design that is without willful extravagance. Over the years a careful and considered design approach was developed, with a blend of poetry and pragmatism that breathes life into even the most prosaic of building programs, enriching the everyday experience of architecture.Re-collection(s): Past-to-Present features a selection of academic, professional and personal works that reflect forty-plus years of making architecture, highlighting memories of how connections, transitions and ways of thinking evolved that informed works of the past up to the present day—and how they might influence future undertakings. Russell was the principal architect for the groundbreaking, 18-storey, Brock Commons Tallwood House at the University of British Columbia, which at the time of its completion was the world’s tallest contemporary wood building. Russell was also the AOA principal architect for George Brown College’s Limberlost Place that opened earlier this year, an international competition-winning tall wood building undertaken in collaboration with Moriyama and Teshima Architects.AOA has received over 150 local, provincial, national and international design awards.

Host or Publisher Ottawa Regional Society of Architects