The Unusual Process | Todd Saunders | TEDxStJohns
Led by a strong contemporary design sensibility, Todd Saunders believes that architecture must play an important role in creating place, using form, materials and texture to help evoke and shape memory and human interaction. Bringing together dynamic building and material experimentation with traditional methods of craft, Todd Saunders is part of team revitalizing the remote Newfoundland Island of Fogo through architecture and art. He takes us through the process and what makes it so unique.
TODD SAUNDERS was born in 1969 in Gander, Newfoundland (Canada). He obtained his M.Arch from McGill University (Montreal, Canada, 1993–95) and a Bachelor of Environmental Planning from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (1988–92).
His work includes the Aurland Lookout (with Tommie Wilhelmsen, Aurland, 2006); Villa Storingavika(Bergen, 2004–07); Villa G (Hjellestad, Bergen, 2007–09); Sogn og Fjordane Summer Cabin (Rysjedalsvika, 2007–10); and Solberg Tower and Park (Sarpsborg, Østfold, 2010), all in Norway.
He currently realized the Fogo Island Studios, four of which have been completed out of a program of six (Fogo Island,Newfoundland, Canada, 2010–11), and has also completed the Fogo Island Inn (2014) in the same location.
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