Ila BermanIla 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 Goernors 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. Read More Read Less