Heritage Ottawa Member Invitation
Our Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday, May 16, 2024 at 7:00 pm via ZOOM.
Pre-registration is required. Members may CLICK HERE to register. REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.
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On confirmation of your membership, you will receive a ZOOM invitation linking you to the meeting.
Members can access the AGM documents by logging in to this MEMBERS ONLY page.
AGM business will be followed by the following special illustrated presentation:
IN SEARCH OF CIVITAS: A PERSONAL JOURNEY
“The physical design of cities and their economic functions are secondary to their relationship to the natural environment and to the spiritual values of human community”.
Lewis Mumford, Historian and Philosopher
We are delighted to invite you to join Barry Padolsky, Ottawa architect, urbanist and heritage advocate who will share some glimpses of his personal creative imaginings (architecture, drawings, writings) with his Heritage Ottawa friends. He joins with us as we argue that heritage preservation and physical design matters even as we may never solve the fascinating paradox in Mumford’s distinction between “civitas” and “urbs” (the spiritual and corporal).
GUEST SPEAKER: Barry Padolsky, B. Arch., M. Sc. (Urban Design), OAA, FRAIC, RCA, CAHP, Order of Ottawa
Barry was born in Winnipeg and obtained a Bachelor of Architecture degree at the University of Manitoba (1961) and a Master of Social Sciences degree (Urban Design) from the University of Edinburgh (1970). He is a Fellow of the RAIC, a member of the Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals and a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. He founded and led Barry Padolsky Associates Inc. Architects (1969-2020) in the realization of over 200 projects including the restoration, rehabilitation and adaptive re-use of over 60 heritage buildings. He has been recognized with 43 national and civic architectural and urban design awards including 29 for heritage conservation. He has served on Ottawa’s Built Heritage Sub-committee (2013-2022) and numerous design juries and panels. He is currently a member of the NCC’s Advisory Committee on Planning, Design and Realty and two RAIC Independent Review Panels (the Centre Block Renovations and Alexandra Bridge Replacement projects). Barry is a heritage and urban design advocate with a deep interest in the history and planning of the national capital. He writes poetry and is a keen tennis player.