Victor Perez-Amado
Assistant Professor Faculty of Community Services School of Urban and Regional Planning Toronto, Ontario victor.perezamado@torontomu.ca
Expert In
Affordable housing
Aging in place
Architecture and urbanism / urban design
Health policy and planning
Housing for LGBTQ2S seniors
Housing for senior demographics
Independent and assisted living residences
Multigenerational housing
Public space / realm activation
Theme: Climate, environment and sustainability
Theme: Health and wellbeing
Urban innovation
Bio/Research
Victor Perez-Amado is an Assistant Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University School of Urban and Regional Planning who is trained as an architect and urban designer. Before joining Toronto Metropolitan University, Perez-Amado worked at the University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor of Arc...
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Bio/Research
Victor Perez-Amado is an Assistant Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University School of Urban and Regional Planning who is trained as an architect and urban designer. Before joining Toronto Metropolitan University, Perez-Amado worked at the University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urbanism. He holds a Master of Architecture and a Post Professional Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he graduated with distinction.
His academic endeavors and research on aging in place, transformation of long-term care facilities, and multigenerational housing, including in LGBTQ2S communities, builds upon seven years of practice and built-work design experience. Perez-Amado's involvement in some of these innovative senior living projects from concept to construction include: Lathrop Communities in Massachusetts USA, a masterplan and design for independent and assisted living residences with a focus on seniors with dementia and autism; The Lexington Brookhaven, long-term care and assisted living residences design; and the Boston Home-Harmon Apartments, Independent living residences for seniors with mental disabilities.
Perez-Amado has also designed and built a series of interactive public installations. These projects explore material prototyping, visualization, public realm activation, and community engagement. Some of these include the “Woggle Jungle and Woggle Jungle 2.0, Everyone is King: Design-Build Competition, King Street Pilot Project” the 2019 Winter-Stations project “Cavalcade” on Woodbine Beach in Toronto, the 2020 Ontario Place Winter Light Festival “Lumina” among others.
He is the recipient of numerous professional awards in housing design including The Harvard Clifford Wong Prize for Housing Design (2014) for his research project “Reconciling the Everglades Edge: Proposal for new Floridian prototypical housing and Urban Schemes”, an American Institute of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Honor Award in collaboration (2012) for the Project “BaYou Commons: (Urban Land Institute, ULI) Gerald D. Hines, and an ASLA Colorado Professional Honor Award, Planning, and Analysis (2015) for the Project Multi Grid 69/70: The Spaces Between: An Urban Ideas Competition.
In recent years, Victor’s work has been published and exhibited in different publications including: The 2019 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, The 2014 Harvard University GSD exhibition Grounded Visionaries: Pedagogy + Practice, for his project: Reconciling the Everglades Edge: Prototypes for new Floridian Urban Schemes; the 2013: Buenos Aires Biennale: SAP: “South America Project” Exhibition for his project Story Trail: The Art of Walking based on Patagonia Hydroaysen Damns; and the 2013 Paisea: Landscape Architecture Magazine (Spain) for The Bend: Nashville Designing Action Competition among others.
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His academic endeavors and research on aging in place, transformation of long-term care facilities, and multigenerational housing, including in LGBTQ2S communities, builds upon seven years of practice and built-work design experience. Perez-Amado's involvement in some of these innovative senior living projects from concept to construction include: Lathrop Communities in Massachusetts USA, a masterplan and design for independent and assisted living residences with a focus on seniors with dementia and autism; The Lexington Brookhaven, long-term care and assisted living residences design; and the Boston Home-Harmon Apartments, Independent living residences for seniors with mental disabilities.
Perez-Amado has also designed and built a series of interactive public installations. These projects explore material prototyping, visualization, public realm activation, and community engagement. Some of these include the “Woggle Jungle and Woggle Jungle 2.0, Everyone is King: Design-Build Competition, King Street Pilot Project” the 2019 Winter-Stations project “Cavalcade” on Woodbine Beach in Toronto, the 2020 Ontario Place Winter Light Festival “Lumina” among others.
He is the recipient of numerous professional awards in housing design including The Harvard Clifford Wong Prize for Housing Design (2014) for his research project “Reconciling the Everglades Edge: Proposal for new Floridian prototypical housing and Urban Schemes”, an American Institute of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Honor Award in collaboration (2012) for the Project “BaYou Commons: (Urban Land Institute, ULI) Gerald D. Hines, and an ASLA Colorado Professional Honor Award, Planning, and Analysis (2015) for the Project Multi Grid 69/70: The Spaces Between: An Urban Ideas Competition.
In recent years, Victor’s work has been published and exhibited in different publications including: The 2019 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, The 2014 Harvard University GSD exhibition Grounded Visionaries: Pedagogy + Practice, for his project: Reconciling the Everglades Edge: Prototypes for new Floridian Urban Schemes; the 2013: Buenos Aires Biennale: SAP: “South America Project” Exhibition for his project Story Trail: The Art of Walking based on Patagonia Hydroaysen Damns; and the 2013 Paisea: Landscape Architecture Magazine (Spain) for The Bend: Nashville Designing Action Competition among others.
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