Re-collection(s): Past-to-Present features a selection of academic, professional, and personal works that reflect forty-plus years of making architecture, highlighting memories of how connections, transitions, and ways of thinking evolved that informed works of the past up to the present day—and how they might influence future undertakings.

Russell Acton is a graduate of the Carleton University School of Architecture and the founding principal of Acton Ostry Architects (AOA), a leading Vancouver-based practice recognized for the design of engaging, eloquent, and inspiring buildings that embody a consideration of design that is without willful extravagance.

Presented by the Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism, with the support of the Ottawa Regional Society of Architects (ORSA), Ottawa Architecture Week, and ULI Ottawa.

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