Creating better built environments that conserve, restore and honour our past includes creating better places in 2026; better buildings, parks and landscapes that stand the test of time and become our heritage buildings of tomorrow.
How do we create those meaningful experiences through built form that we hope future generations will honor and respect as much as we care about things built over the last 200 years? It starts with better policy, design leadership and engagement to create better places for people.
This Zoom lecture is Wednesday, March 25, 2026 from 7:00 – 8:00pm.
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Speaker(s)
Toon Dreessen is a graduate of Carleton University, served as President of the OAA (2015 and 2016) and was inducted into the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada College of Fellows and the Order of DaVinci. He leads Architects DCA and is responsible for award-winning and high-profile projects. DCA is a company with roots dating back more than 40 years and is ISO 9001:2015 Certified. He leads the company’s activism and the role of architects in a strategic, visionary, and thoughtful planning. Toon founded, and is Chair, of the Ottawa Architecture Foundation.
A question and answer period will follow the lecture.