education:
2020 Examination for Architects in Canada (ExAC)
2018 Master of Science in Architecture Studies - Architecture + Urbanism | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2013 Master of Architecture | Faculty of Architecture | University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
2011 Bachelor of Environmental Design | Faculty of Architecture | University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
scholarships & awards:
2021 “Reimagining Museums for Climate Action” Competition Finalist | Glasgow Science Centre, Scotland | at DESIGN EARTH (Rania Ghosn + El Hadi Jazairy) | Role: Research, Design Contributor.
2019 Wienerberger Brick Award 2020, Category Winner Living Together, Prototype Village House, Rwanda (at MIT SA+P)
2019 Centre for Polish Literature and Language Competition Finalist | Krakow, Poland (at Rafi Segal A+U)
2017/2018 Department of Architecture Merit Fellowship - MIT SA+P
2017 Studio Prize - Architect Magazine, “Urbanism After Extraction”
2014 RAIC “Designing with Natural Stone” Travel Scholarship - Verona, Italy
2013 ONE Lab Merit Scholarship - Terreform ONE - Brooklyn, New York
2013 University of Manitoba Faculty of Architecture Endowment Fund
2011-2013 Manitoba Graduate Scholarship
2011 Randy Gilbart Memorial Scholarship for Excellence in Architectural Design
2009/2010 UMSU Scholarship, University of Manitoba
2009 Corigill Scholarship
work experience:
2021-2023 The Neighbourhood Land Trust, Parkdale, Toronto - Property Asset Manager
2022 The University of Waterloo School of Architecture, Ontario - Sessional Lecturer
2021 SHEEEP, Toronto ON - Architectural Design
2019-2020 John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto, Ontario - Sessional Lecturer
2016-present DESIGN EARTH, Cambridge MA, USA - Research + Design Contributor
2019 Public City Architecture, Toronto, Canada - Architecture + Urban Design
2018-2019 Rafi Segal Architecture Urbanism, Brookline MA, USA - Research + Design Contributor
2017-2018 Urban Risk Lab, MIT, Cambridge MA, USA - Research + Design Contributor
2013-2016 Public City Architecture, Winnipeg, Canada - Intern Architect
2011-2015 University of Manitoba, Faculty of Architecture - Teaching Assistant: Vertical Design Studio - Living with Water (2015), Ecology and Design (2013), Design Studio 2 (2013), Design Studio 1 (2012), Pre Modern Architectural History & Theory (2012), Architectural Technology (2011)
2013-2014 Centric Productions - Researcher
advocacy:
2020-2021 The Architecture Lobby Tkaronto - Outreach Coordinator
2011-2016 Winnipeg Architecture Foundation - Research + Writer + Design Contributor
lectures + exhibitions:
2023 “The Way of the Dinosaurs” screening | “Unsettling Matter, Gaining Ground”, Carnegie Museum of Art | at DESIGN EARTH (Rania Ghosn + El Hadi Jazairy) | Role: Design Contributor, Writer
2023 “Addressing Affordability” Panel | ACO Toronto Heritage and Housing Symposium, Ontario Science Centre | Role: Presenter
2023 “Praxes of Care: Maintaining high-rise residential neighbourhoods” | Arriscraft Canada Brick Speaker Series, The University of Waterloo School of Architecture, Ontario | Role: Moderator
2022 “Whale Song” | 20th London Design Festival (LDF), V&A | at DESIGN EARTH (Rania Ghosn + El Hadi Jazairy) | Role: Design Contributor, Writer
2021 “How to: reward and punish” workshop, Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) | Role: Participant
2021 “Elephant in the Room” | Reimagining Museums for Climate Action, Glasgow Science Centre | at DESIGN EARTH (Rania Ghosn + El Hadi Jazairy) | Role: Design Contributor, Writer
2021 “As One Planet” (Giardini, Central Pavilion) | Biennale Architettura 2021, “How will we live together?” La Biennale di Venezia, Italy | at DESIGN EARTH (Rania Ghosn + El Hadi Jazairy) | Role: Animation.
2018-2021 “Equitable Resilience” | The Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts | at DESIGN EARTH (Rania Ghosn + El Hadi Jazairy) | Role: Research, Design Contributor.
2020 “Care Packages” | "FUTURE READY: Survival Now + Next" | Anchorage Museum.
2020 “Kiruna Forever” | ArkDes (Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design), Stockholm, Sweden | at DESIGN EARTH (Rania Ghosn + El Hadi Jazairy) | Role: Research, Design Contributor.
2019 “Remediating Remediation: Imagining Alternatives for Assessing and Redressing Environmental Harm” | annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science – Innovations, Interruptions, Regenerations, New Orleans, Louisiana | Role: Speaker.
2019 “Sit(e)lines of a Garden City”, Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, “Collective City,” Seoul, South Korea | at Rafi Segal A+U | Role: Research, Design Contributor.
2018 “Resisting Extractivism in Border Zones: Art and Protest from the Arctic North to the Global South” | University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway (UiT), Tromsø, Norway | Role: Speaker.
2018 “Swamp School”, Lithuania Pavilion, Venice Biennale | with Curators, Nomeda Urbonas & Gediminas Urbonas (Urbonas Studio) | Role: Interlocutor.
2018 “Housing+” Exhibition - MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism | Okawa Lobby, MIT Media Lab - Cambridge, USA | Role: Research, Design Contributor.
2018 “in our present condition (n-z)” Exhibition - MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) | Samuel Tak Lee Building - Cambridge, USA | Role: Research, Design Contributor.
2018 “Cosmorama”, US Pavilion “Dimensions of Citizenship”, Venice Biennale | at DESIGN EARTH (Rania Ghosn + El Hadi Jazairy) | Role: Research, Design Contributor.
2017 “Postcards from the Anthropocene: Unsettling the Geopolitics of Representation” | University of Edinburgh, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Edinburgh, Scotland | Role: Speaker.
2017 “Trash Peaks”, Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, “Imminent Commons,” Seoul, South Korea | at DESIGN EARTH (Rania Ghosn & El Hadi Jazairy) | Role: Research, Design Contributor.
2016 Winter Cycling Congress | with Public City Architecture, Minneapolis, USA | Role: Speaker.
2015 FRONTlines, River City 2050 | Winnipeg Free Press News Café, Winnipeg, Canada | Role: Speaker.
2014 University of Manitoba Modern Exhibition | Millennium Library, Winnipeg, Canada | at Winnipeg Architecture Foundation | Role: Curated with Abigail Auld.
2014 University of Manitoba Modern ConEd Guided Tour | 2014 RAIC Festival of Architecture, Winnipeg, Canada | at Winnipeg Architecture Foundation | Role: Speaker/Guide
2012 “Migrating Landscapes”, Canadian Pavilion, Venice Biennale | with 5468796 Architecture & Jae-Sung Chon | Role: Model Builder
media & publications:
“How to: reward and punish” Canadian Centre for Architecture (2021).
Hutton, Monica. “Turn the norm (not a return to norm)” Canadian Architect (May 04 2020).
Hutton, Monica. “Turn the norm (not a return to norm)” Copenhagen Architecture Festival (CAFx) (2020).
Hutton, Monica. “Concealed City.” Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (2019).
Hutton, Monica. “Oil Field Orphanage.” Pidgin 26, Princeton University School of Architecture (2019).
Hutton, Monica. “Trials and Virtues: The Armstrong Rubber Company Headquarters” PLAT 8.0, Simplicity, Rice Architecture (Fall 2019): 244-253.
Epp, Eduard, ed. River City 2050. Winnipeg: Storefront Manitoba, 2018.
“Studio Prize: Urbanism After Extraction” Architect Magazine September 2017.
Urbanism After Extraction. Cambridge: MIT/SA+P, Spring 2017.
Turner, Randy. “The Rivers - Part 3: The Final Frontier.” Winnipeg Free Press - 31 October 2015: D.
Hutton, Monica. University of Manitoba Modern. Winnipeg: Winnipeg Architecture Foundation, 2012.
(at Public City Architecture) Dubbledam, Heather, ed. Twenty + Change Next Generation: Emerging Canadian Design Practices. Toronto: Riverside Architectural Press, 2015.
(at Public City Architecture) Bozikovic, Alex. “Who Will Build Canada’s Future?”. The Globe and Mail - 5 December 2015.
(at Public City Architecture) “Gillam Town Centre, Award of Merit”. Canadian Architect V.58 N.12.