Ila Berman, Director of the University of Waterloo School of Architecture and Principal of studio Matrixx, is an architect and theorist, who holds a Doctorate from Harvard University. Berman is the recipient of many honors including the Lieutenant Governors Medal for Design, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Fellowships, a $300,000 HUD grant, and the President's Award at Tulane University, where she was Associate Dean of the School of Architecture until 2007. Berman's publications include her book URBANbuild local global winner of an AIGA award for the top 50 books of 2009, New Orleans: Strategies for a City in Soft Land by Harvard University (with Joan Busquets/Felipe Correa), and "Machinic Matters" in Intricacy: Art, Architecture and New Media in addition to projects and writing in AD, GAM Zero Landscape, Praxis, the Cornell Architecture Journal, c3Korea, JAE and Appendx among others. Her work has been exhibited at many public and private institutions including the Contemporary Art Center, the Ogden Museum, the Perloff Gallery and the International Architectural Biennale in Venice. Dr. Mona El Khafif has worked on several Viennese design projects, such as the BUSarchitecure pilot Homeworkers project, which received the Otto Wagner Urban Development Prize in 1998, and the Ortner & Ortner Museumsquartier Vienna, one of the 10 largest cultural urban districts in the world. She is a founding member of IG architecture, a platform for the development of contemporary architecture in Vienna. She has extensive experience in the organization and direction of international urban workshops and in developing collaborative cooperation programs with universities in other countries, including Germany, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. El Khafif taught at the Institute of Urban Design/TU Vienna, then joined the URBANbuild program at Tulane University in New Orleans in 2006 to support studios at the urban and architectural scales in the aftermath or Hurricane Katrina. She is the coauthor of URBANbuild: Local/Global. Her current research operates at multiple scales, examining the interdisciplinary aspects of European urban renewal strategies. She teaches at the University of Waterloo.
AIGA Design Award, Top 50 books/50 Covers award for URBANbuild local global (2009)/ Award of Excellence, 51st Annual Design Exhibition, Communication Arts (2010)/ URBANbuild Prototype: AIA Honor Award (2010)
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