Fadi Masoud

Fadi Masoud is an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism at the Daniels Faculty. Prior to joining the University of Toronto, Masoud was a Lecturer in Landscape Architecture and Urban Design at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and an affiliated faculty with the MIT Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism, where he co-led research and design projects on coastal urbanism, urban codes, and the Future of Suburbia.

Masoud’s research and design work engages the landscape and its underlying environmental systems as operational forces in shaping urbanism. His current work focuses on establishing relationships between large-scale dynamic environmental systems, design, and the instrumentality of planning frameworks, policies, and codes.

Masoud practiced as a landscape architect and a planner at several leading firms in Canada and the United States including West8, HOK, and NAK. He holds a Bachelors of Environmental Studies from the University of Waterloo’s School of Planning, specializing in Urban Design and Urban Development, a Masters of Landscape Architecture from the University of Toronto, and a Post-Professional Master in Landscape Architecture from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, where he graduated with distinction.

He is the recipient of several awards including the Fulbright Fellowship, the Heather M. Reisman Gold Medal in Design, the ASLA certificate of Honor, the Jacob Weidenman Prize, and was the 2015 recipient of the Charles E. Beverage Fellowship by the Olmsted Friends of Fairsted. Masoud’s work has also been recognized through several international competitions, and was published in numerous books and journals including: Topos, Landscape World Journal, MASS Context Journal, Conservation of Architecture Journal, Out of Water: Sustaining Development in Arid Climates, Design for Flooding, and New Geographies Journal. A forthcoming research publication of urban districts built on reclaimed land, their evolution, potentials, and impending vulnerabilities is being collected into a graphic-rich atlas . In collaboration with research and government partners, Masoud is developing an interactive geo-socio-spatial platform designed to increase awareness and bridge the gap between different stakeholders of urban development through a data-driven, web-based toolkits for climate-based adaptation planning and design strategies.

Masoud has recently lectured at the National Gallery in Ottawa, the Oslo School of Architecture (AHO), the University of Miami, University of Pennsylvania’s Landscape Dialogues, the 17th National Conference on Planning History, Institut d'Architecture - Université de Genève, and the 9th Annual Southeast Florida Regional Climate Summit. His work has been heavily exhibited including at the National Building Museum in Washington DC, the Saint Étienne International Design Bienniale in France, Harbourfront Centre in Toronto, Trespa/Apra Design Centre in New York City, MIT, Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, and at the Canadian Centre for Architecture.

Research Areas

Climate Resilience and Adaptation, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design

Companies

• Director University of Toronto - John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design (2020)
• Assistant Professor University of Toronto - John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design (2017)
• Assistant Professor University of Toronto (2017)
• Lecturer of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2014)
• Research Associate MIT Center for Advanced Urbanism (2014)
• Lecturer Harvard Graduate School of Design (2012 — 2014)
• Visiting Lecturer University of Toronto (2013 — 2014)
• Research / Teaching Assistant Harvard University (2010 — 2012)
• Landscape / Urban Designer West8 (2009 — 2011)

Education

• Post-Professional Master in Landscape Architecture Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2010 — 2012)
• Master of Landscape Architecture University of Toronto (2007 — 2010)
• Bachelor of Environmental Studies University of Waterloo (2002 — 2007)