Introducing Roy Taylor: 2023-24 Banham Fellow – Acclaimed Architectural Designer, Educator, and Community Leader from Toronto, ON

Roy Taylor is an architectural designer, educator, and organizer joining us from Toronto, ON, where they serve as Associate Partner of Lateral Office and lecturer at the University of Toronto Daniels.

Beginning with a critical mapping of Buffalo’s neighborhoods, Roy Taylor’s project ILLIQUID ASSETS will examine tactics and strategies of locating and fortifying sites of social reproduction against the tide of gentrification and financialization gripping the contemporary late-capitalist city.

Roy Taylor’s past work with Lateral Office engaged architecture’s territorial ambitions through both built work and exhibition, with multiple projects in collaboration with Inuit and First Nations communities across Canada’s North. As organizer and activist, Roy Taylor has served as co-steward of The Architecture Lobby’s Tkaronto chapter, where they were engaged in the creation of the collaborative mapping project countermap.land for documenting racist and colonial spaces in “Canada.”

Roy Taylor also coincidentally shares a birthday with the namesake of the Fellowship.