Within and outside of appointment as the Dean of the Forestry Faculty at U of T, Robert Wright’s work is design-centered and extremely eclectic in nature. His notion of design does not privilege the traditional professional disciplines of Architecture, Landscape Architecture or Urban design. He places his work within a more contemporary and trans-disciplinary framework. As Both an educator and as a design practitioner, he holds a strong belief that “Design is built theory” meaning that the translation from thought and concept to built works is primary and essential to design discourse. Having had training in both Ecology and Landscape Architecture places design as a practice that must at its essence deal with context. The art of design is not merely “object” making but rather the interplay of Nature, Person, Community, City and Place.

Robert Wright September 12, 2018