AIA Intl - Women in Architecture Series: Fernanda Canales & Lillian Tay
Event Description
This is a continuation of our popular Women in Architecture series, conceived in partnership with the RIBA Sri Lanka. This presentation features preeminent architects from around the globe. They will share their journeys in the architectural profession and will showcase two or three key projects. There will be a panel discussion to finish.
CES: 1 LU for AIA Members
Speakers
Fernanda Canales, Founder, Fernanda Canales Arquitectura
Lillian Tay, Vice President, Veritas Design Group
Moderator: Lester Korzilius, FAIA, RIBA, AIA Strategic Council Representative and Immediate Past President, AIA International
Fernanda Canales is an architect based in Mexico City committed to design, urban planning and research.
She holds a PhD in Architecture from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, an MA from the Universidad Politecnica de Cataunya in Barcelona and a BA from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. Canales has been distinguished with several international awards, such as the Emerging Voices Award from The Architectural League of New York. She was named one of the world’s “100+ Best Architecture Firms” by the architecture magazine DOMUS and was recognized by The New York Times as one of the 10 female figures changing the landscape of leadership in the world.
Fernanda is author of the books Shared Structures, Private Space (Actar 2020), Architecture in Mexico 1900-2010 (Arquine, 2013), Mi casa, tu ciudad (Puente Editores 2021) and Vivienda Colectiva en México (Gustavo Gili, 2017). Her work has been exhibited at The Royal Academy of Arts in London, the ifa-Gallery in Stuttgart and and the Venice Biennale, among other institutions. She has been Visiting Faculty member at Princeton School of Architecture (Fall 2021) and was the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor of Architectural Design at Yale School of Architecture (Fall 2019), as well as guest speaker at MIT, the Architectural Association in London, Columbia University in New York and Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Canales has published more than 100 essays in specialized magazines such as AA Files, El Croquis, Prespecta, Baumeister, Bawelt, Arquitectura Viva and Domus.
She received the Career Award and the Best Young Architect Award in Mexico (2014, Colegio de Arquitectos de México), the fellowship of the National System of Creators in Mexico (Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 2012), and a grant from Fundación Arte Contemporáneo Jumex. She has received The Masterprize Award, WAN Awards, The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture Award, the IIDA Design Award, and the Best of Design Awards by the Architects Newspaper. She has been part of the jury of important international architecture competitions and is an emerit member of the Academia Nacional de Arquitectura de Mexico.
Lillian Tay is Vice Pesident at VERITAS Design Group, an award-winning architectural and multi-disciplinary design practice based in Kuala Lumpur. VERITAS aspires to create responsible and resilient architecture that uplifts lives and inspires appreciation of the local place and culture.
As President of Malaysian Institute of Architects (PAM) from 2019-20, Lillian sought to promote the expertise of Malaysia’s professional architects. She believes architects need to play a larger role in the making of better urban environments and to promote sustainable design to create more resilient communities and cities in the face of climate change.
Trained at Princeton University, USA, Lillian worked at KPF, New York before returning to Kuala Lumpur where she has been a director at VERITAS since 1995.
Moderator: Lester Korzilius runs a concurrent arts and architecture practice based in London and the south coast of the United Kingdom.
From 2005 to 2017 Lester was a main board director and co-owner of EllisWilliams Architects with offices throughout the United Kingdom and in Germany. Lester was the project director for a range of education projects in the primary, secondary, further education, and special needs sectors. Additionally, Lester led EWA teams providing client-side estate strategies for their secondary school and primary school estates. Lester has also designed several cinema and leisure centre projects.
From 1997 to 2005 Lester was a project director with Foster & Partners and subsequently with YRM. Projects for which he was responsible included several university buildings in Qatar, office buildings in the City of London, and a hospital in Ireland.
From 1988 to 1997 Lester was in private practice in New York City concentrating on commercial and residential projects, several of which were internationally published.
From 1979 to 1988 Lester served as a project architect in the offices of John Lautner, Paul Rudolph, Herman Hertzberger, and Richard Rogers, working on projects throughout Europe, the Far East, and the United States.
Lester is a licensed architect in the United States (New York) and the United Kingdom and holds NCARB certification. Lester received his architectural training at UCLA and the California Polytechnic State University of San Luis Obispo. He additionally holds an MSc from the University of Reading, an MA from Kingston University, and an MFA from the University of Sussex. He is currently pursuing an MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art.
