Lola Sheppard
Lola is a founding partner, with Mason White, of Lateral Office, a Toronto based practice, and she is Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo. Lateral Office is an architecture practice that operates at the intersection of architecture, landscape, and urbanism. The studio describes its practice process as a commitment to design as a research vehicle to pose and respond to complex, urgent questions in the built environment, engaging in the wider context and climate of a project– social, ecological, or political. Lateral Office have been pursuing research and design work on the role of architecture in remote regions, particularly the Canadian North, for the past eight years. Lateral Office’s work has been exhibited extensively and they have lectured across the USA, Canada and Europe. Lateral Office was awarded a Special Mention at the 2014 Venice Biennale for Architecture, a PA award in 2013 and the 2012 Holcim Gold for Sustainable Construction for North America, for their work on the Arctic. Lola Sheppard and Mason White are the authors of the book Many Norths: Spatial Practice in a Polar Territory (Actar 2017) and of Pamphlet Architecture 30, COUPLING: Strategies for Infrastructural Opportunism, published by Princeton Architectural Press (2011). Lola Sheppard is also co-editors of the journal Bracket.