Calvin Brook is an architect, planner & urban designer and co-founder of Brook McIlroy, an architecture, planning, urban design, landscape architecture and interior design practice with studios in Toronto, Thunder Bay and Winnipeg. His practice merges the fields of urbanism, architecture and landscape through projects that touch all scales of place making. Cal's work with Canada’s Indigenous communities has been recognized by The Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business and is the first design and planning practice in Canada Gold certified under CCAB’s Progressive Aboriginal Relations (PAR) program. His work has been recognized with over 50 professional awards. He was project director and principal author of EGLINTONConnects (2014) and Toronto’s Avenues and Mid-Rise Buildings Study (2010) for the City of Toronto. He has led over 30 campus projects for universities, colleges and schools across North America. Cal has been the principal architect and planner for the $130 million Prince Arthur's Landing project in Thunder Bay including two LEED Gold public buildings, condominiums and the new Delta Waterfront Hotel. The project has received 21 design awards to date. Currently the new net zero carbon Thunder Bay Art Gallery designed in association with Patkau Architects is under construction on a spectacular site overlooking Lake Superior.Cal was editor and a contributing author of the book: The City and The Spirit Garden (2014). He holds degrees in architecture from Harvard University and the University of Toronto. He was formerly an Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo and Director of the Career Discovery Urban Design Program at Harvard University. He is a former Council Member of the Ontario Professional Planners Institute; Board member of the Ontario Crafts Council; Senior Fellow of the Global Cities Institute at the University of Toronto and a member of the City of Toronto’s Design Review Panel.