User:Marcdowning

Hello from Toronto, Canada.

I'm an architect and amateur musician.

I graduated from the University of Waterloo, School of Architecture, in 1996. I spent the first ten years of my career focusing on library, school and University work, while holding an adjunct faculty position at the University of Waterloo. I coordinated design studios, developing high-density urban infill design projects. My particular interest was on the complex marriage of music and architecture.

After nine years of practice in architectural firms, I joined MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects in Toronto, Canada, in 2005. I have become a core member of the community and recreation design team. I am the project architect for several multi-use recreation centre projects, all of which are complex buildings including community rooms, fitness centres, leisure and lap pools, running tracks, and NHL-size practice and spectator arenas.

I have a bandoneon. It mocks me.

Areas of Expertise: Public and community architecture, Water and architecture, Architecture and music

Education: University of Waterloo, School of Architecture, B.Arch., 1996, and B. Env. S., 1993