Allan Teramura, FRAIC, named President of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada

2016-01-15T19:31:00-05:00

Allan Teramura, FRAIC, of Ottowa is known for his advocacy work for Aboriginal communities, as well as his contribution as one of RAIC's representatives at the COP21 Conference in Paris. He has also worked to form collaborations between the RAIC and multiple Canadian and international architectural organizations.

In his inauguration speech, delivered today, Teramura stressed how architecture can be as strong of a cultural support as language. “As architects," he said, "I think we would all agree that losing traditional building crafts and knowledge of ways of organizing physical space can be as corrosive to a society as the loss of a spoken language.”

He also stressed collaborative design processes when working with Indigenous communities: “At a time when talk of reconciliation is growing, our profession is in a position to – and, therefore, is obligated to – look at ways to help address injustices, not by imposing our ideas, but by listening and promoting the professional competencie...

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Allan Teramura, FRAIC, named President of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada