Ian Chodikoff
Editor - Canadian Architect

Ian Chodikoff is an architect, urban designer and the editor of Canadian Architect magazine. He has undertaken projects ranging from the role of large parks to the effects of transnationalism on urbanization.

Interested in multidisciplinary, collaborative and strategic design processes, he has helped facilitate a series of charrettes and presentations with the City of Toronto and the Design Exchange to improve the built

environment in several priority neighbourhoods across Toronto.

His travelling exhibition entitled Fringe Benefits: Cosmopolitan Dynamics of a Multicultural City was launched in July 2008 and explores the influences of multiculturalism on Toronto’s suburban communities, illustrating opportunities for social and economic development.

He has lectured in various universities and cities across North America and Europe, has served on numerous juries and has written in a variety of magazines and journals on issues ranging from urban planning to sustainability.

Committed to the profession, he has served on committees including the Toronto Society of Architects, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, as well as having been a consultant with the Canada Council for the Arts on the subject of architectural competitions and their importance to mid-sized municipalities across Canada.

Jack Diamond
Principal - Diamond + Schmitt Architects Inc

A.J. Diamond's degrees include a Bachelor of Architecture (with distinction) from the University of Capetown, a Master of Arts in politics, philosophy and economics from Oxford University and a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Architectural institute of Canada and the Canadian Institute of Planners and an Honourary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.  He has

received honourary doctorates in Engineering from Daltech and in Law from the University of Toronto.  He is a Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Gold Medalist, a member of the Order of Ontario and an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Mr. Diamond was instrumental in the movement to reinforce neighbourhoods at risk with infill housing; he devised medium rise alternatives at equivalent densities to high-rise residential development; as an entrepreneur he demonstrated the economic effectiveness of recycling historic structures for new uses; and he identified the negative impacts of sub-urban sprawl.

Extra professional activities include chairmanship of the Advisory Committee on Design to the Canadian National Capital Commission, membership of the Ontario Human Rights Commission, a role as a commissioner of the Greater Toronto Area Task Force. His lecture tours have included Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Italy.

Eha Naylor
Principal - ENVision - The Hough Group Limited

Eha Naylor, B.L.A., M.B.A., OALA, FCSLA is a Principal of ENVision — the Hough Group, a Toronto-based landscape architecture and environmental planning firm with clients throughout Canada and abroad.

Her 29 years of consulting experience reflect a diversity of expertise in environmental planning and site design for both the public and private sectors, which has earned her numerous professional awards of recognition.

She is a member of several professional associations, such as the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects, the American Society of landscape Architects, the Canadian Urban Institute, the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects and the Ontario Professional Planners Institute. In 2000, she was named fellow of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects.

Eha has served on several professional committees, design juries and has also appeared as an environmental planning expert witness for the Ontario Municipal Board. She continues to lecture at a number of Canadian universities and, since 2004, has been a member of the University of Toronto Faculty Council for the John Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design.

She has served on several committees for the Washington based Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards and received the Presidential Recognition Award for her efforts. Eha is currently appointed to the Canadian federal government’s National Capital Commission Advisory Committee for Planning and Design.

She has served on design competition panels in the City of Toronto and the urban design awards jury for the Design Exchange/National Post, Town of Oakville and Town of Markham.

Michael Van Valkenburgh
Principal – Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Inc

Michael Van Valkenburgh is Principal of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, landscape architects and urban designers, founded in 1982.

Michael also is the Charles Eliot Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he has taught since 1982.

His firm leads the Lower Don Lands Study for

Waterfront Toronto and they designed the Don River Park in the West Don Lands, soon to be under construction.