• Comment: Awards should be cited inline with independent sources. To be clear, the globe and mail cannot be used as a source for the fact that their employees won an award. Czarking0 (talk) 22:21, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
  • Comment: There are no sources for her education Czarking0 (talk) 22:18, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
  • Comment: "Rochon served as a board member on the Fort York Foundation" Unless there is a second independent source about her involvement then this is probably not notable Czarking0 (talk) 22:17, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
  • Comment: "One of her career highlights was working alongside Jacobs to lead the citizen lobby to try to stop the demolition of the Ontario Place revolving outdoor amphitheatre (1971) designed by Eberhard Zeidler." This is not encyclopedic language Czarking0 (talk) 21:59, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
  • Comment: I believe the photo is a copyright violation and I have nominated it for deletion Czarking0 (talk) 21:58, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
  • Comment: There is no citation for her place of birth Czarking0 (talk) 21:46, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
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Lisa Rochon
Lisa Rochon, 2024
BornOakville, Canada
OccupationAuthor, Urban Designer
NationalityCanadian
EducationB.A. Honours Journalism & French, Carleton University

C.E.P. International Relations, Sciences Po Auditrice Modern Art, L'Ecole du Louvre

M.A. Urban Design Studies, University of Toronto
Notable worksNational “City Space” column (The Globe and Mail, 2000-2013)

Up North, Where Canada’s Architecture Meets the Land (Key Porter, 2005)

Tuscan Daughter (Harper Collins, 2021)
Notable awardsTwo-time winner of the National Newspaper Awards (2005 & 2006) Royal Architectural Institute of Canada's President's Award for Journalism (2008)
PartnerJohn Terry
ChildrenGeneviève, Alexander, Hannah and Dylan
Website
https://lisarochon.ca/

Lisa Rochon is a Canadian author, architecture critic, and a city builder.

Career

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Rochon worked for The Globe and Mail as a critic of architecture for over a decade.[1] She defended and championed the cause of inspired, innovative architecture from Toronto to Mumbai[2], Copenhagen[3] and New York[4]. She has contributed cultural commentary in English and French to CBC Radio and Radio Canada, organized conferences such as Revell Toronto Helsinki (2010)[5] and contributed numerous essays and articles for books and journals such as Alphabet City (MIT Press)[6], Canadian Architect, Architectural Record (NYC)[7], and The Brick.

Rochon travelled across Canada to experience all of the buildings in her non-fiction book Up North, Where Canada's Architecture Meets the Land (Key Porter, 2005) that argues passionately for the significance and unique genius loci of modern Canadian architecture.[8] She has delivered many public lectures about architecture, place vs placelessness and spoken about cities that inspire or oppress.[9] One of her career highlights was working alongside Jacobs to lead the citizen lobby to try to stop the demolition of the Ontario Place revolving outdoor amphitheatre (1971) designed by Eberhard Zeidler.[10] Another was travelling to Dhaka, Bangladesh during an unexpected state of emergency to experience the National Assembly by Louis Kahn wandering its monumental spaces during a power black-out.[11]

Her debut book, Tuscan Daughter (Harper Collins), was released in 2021 to critical acclaim[12] and was translated into Italian and Serbian.

Harper Collins signed Rochon for her forthcoming novel about a monumental theft, cruelty and love set in 20th-century Paris.[13] It is set for publication in 2026.

Between 2016 and 2019, Rochon served as chair of the international architecture selection committee and design director for the Canadian Canoe Museum[14].

In 2018, she joined the McEwen International Advisory Board for Canada’s newest school of architecture.[15]

As design jury chair for the international competition, Winter Stations, Rochon helped to organize the temporary pop-up reinventions of the lifeguard stands along the eastern beaches from 2015 – 2018.[16][17][18] Rochon served as a board member on the Fort York Foundation[19], advocating for the 43-acre urban oasis and birthplace of Toronto. In response to Black Lives Matter and the cries among Indigenous people to be heard, she co-produced Red Embers, a series of 13 cedar gates featuring large banners by Indigenous women artists from across Turtle Island.[20] In 2021, she co-produced major wall murals within the historic Leuty Boathouse in the eastern Beaches painted by the celebrated artists Chief Lady Bird and Jacquie Comrie.[21]

Awards and nominations

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Award Year Result
National Newspaper Awards (Canada's equivalent to the Pulitzer Prize) 2005 Won
National Newspaper Awards 2006 Won
National Newspaper Awards 2007 Nominated
Royal Architectural Institute of Canada's President's Award for Journalism 2008 Won

References

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  1. ^ Sheppard, J (2007-05-11). "Globe wins four National Newspaper Awards". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2024-05-16.
  2. ^ Rochon, Lisa (2012-11-23). "In Mumbai, 'monster' home has multiple meanings". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2024-09-09.
  3. ^ Rochon, Lisa (2012-01-27). "Scandinavian for great design". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2024-09-09.
  4. ^ Rochon, Lisa (2012-03-23). "Take a walk on New York's High Line". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2024-09-09.
  5. ^ Architect, Canadian (2010-09-08). "REVELL/TORONTO/HELSINKI: Finnish Architecture and the Image of Modern Toronto". Canadian Architect. Retrieved 2024-09-09.
  6. ^ "The best in architecture". The Globe and Mail. 2006-05-24. Retrieved 2024-09-09.
  7. ^ "Lisa Rochon | Architectural Record". www.architecturalrecord.com. Retrieved 2024-09-09.
  8. ^ Berridge, Joe (2006). "Wood, Glass and Stone". Literary Review of Canada.
  9. ^ Rochon, Lisa (2003-05-14). "Uncle Sam's city plan". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
  10. ^ Zeidler, Eberhard (2013). Buildings Cities Life (Volume 1 ed.). Dundurn Press. pp. 143–152.
  11. ^ Rochon, Lisa (2007-10-06). "A modern fortress, as light as transcendence". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2024-05-23.
  12. ^ Somerville, Janet (2021-08-27). "LGBTQ characters star in four of the best new historical fiction novels". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
  13. ^ "Lisa Rochon | The Writers' Union of Canada". www.writersunion.ca. Retrieved 2024-09-09.
  14. ^ Bozikovic, Alex (2024-05-16). "Canadian Canoe Museum's new home is designed to 'pull you outside'". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2024-05-17.
  15. ^ "Identity". McEwen School of Architecture. Retrieved 2024-05-16.
  16. ^ Carodine, Victoria (2017-01-11). "Toronto's 2017 Winter Stations Design Competition Winners Revealed". Architect Magazine. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
  17. ^ Lynch, Patrick (2017-02-02). "8 Projects Selected to Transform Toronto's Beachfront in the 2017 Winter Stations Design Competition". ArchDaily. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
  18. ^ Moore, Shannon (2017-01-16). "Winners of third annual Winter Stations Design Competition announced". Canadian Architect. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
  19. ^ "Our Accomplishments". www.fortyork.ca. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
  20. ^ Beya, Christiane (2019-07-02). "Red Embers Public Art Installation Transforms Toronto's Allan Gardens". Canadian Architect. Retrieved 2024-05-23.
  21. ^ Shackleton, Al (2021-09-07). "Art reinvention planned for walls of the Leuty Boathouse this week". Beach Metro Community News. Retrieved 2024-05-23.