Marco L. Polo graduated from the University of British Columbia School of Architecture in 1985, and subsequently worked in professional practice in Toronto. He has published extensively on architecture and design, and was editor of Canadian Architec
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Marco L. Polo graduated from the University of British Columbia School of Architecture in 1985, and subsequently worked in professional practice in Toronto. He has published extensively on architecture and design, and was editor of Canadian Architect from 1997 to 2003.
He joined Ryerson University’s Department of Architectural Science in 2002, and in September 2009 became director of the department's Undergraduate Program. He collaborated with Professor John McMinn of the University of Waterloo School of Architecture on 41° to 66° Architecture in Canada: Region, Culture, Tectonics, an exhibition selected to represent Canada at the 2008 Venice Biennale of Architecture.
Professor Polo’s publications include The Prix de Rome in Architecture: A Retrospective (Coach House Books, 2006) and, with Professors Colin Ripley and Arthur Wrigglesworth of Ryerson University, In the Place of Sound: Architecture | Music | Acoustics (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007). His research was recognized with the Ryerson University Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Science Research Excellence Award for 2006. Marco was Visiting Professor at the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario for 2008-2009, and in 2010 was elected to the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada's College of Fellows.
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