Craig Applegath

FRAIC, OAA, AAA, NSSA, LEED AP

Craig is an architect, urban designer, futurist, and a pioneer and leader in planning and design for urban resilience. Craig is a founding member and the current moderator of ResilientCity.org.

Craig is also an Architect and Principal at Cohos Evamy Integratedesign in Toronto, and writes and speaks on urban design and architecture in the face of climate change and peak oil, and has presented at conferences and workshops across North America.  If you would like Craig to speak at your conference please email your inquiry to speakinginfo@craigapplegath.com  for further information about his fees and availability.

About Craig

Architect, Urban Designer, futurist, and a pioneer in the field of Urban Resilience, Craig is a Principal at Cohos Evamy Integratedesign, and a passionate advocate for developing planning and design solutions that make sense in a world of peak oil and climate change. Since graduating from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University with a Master of Architecture in Urban Design he has built a considerable track record leading complex planning design projects, but is best known for his advocacy of sustainable building and urban resilience. In addition to his project and practice responsibilities, Craig writes and lectures on sustainable building design and resilient city design in Canada and United States. This has included speaking presentations at major conferences in Toronto, Montreal, Chicago and San Francisco.

Craig is a founding member and current moderator of the ResilientCity.org website; was a founding Board Member of Sustainable Buildings Canada; and is a current member of the Canadian Green Building Council. Craig is also a past President of the Ontario Association of Architects, and was made a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada for his services to the profession.

Speaking and Workshop Engagements

In addition to his fulltime Architecture Practice as a Principle at Cohos Evamy, Craig Applegath is a regular speaker and facilitator at international conferences, seminars and workshops on the topic of resilient city planning and building design in the face of climate change, and peak oil.

If you would like to have Craig speak or facilitate at your conference or event please contact him at speakinginfo@craigapplegath.com.

Some recent examples of past speaking and facilitation engagements include:

1. The The Center for Healthcare Design Conference, 2000

2. The American Society of Healthcare Engineers and Architects, 2001

3. The Ontario Hospital Association Convention, 2001

4. Clean Med Conference, Chicago, 2002

6. The RAIC Festival, 2006, 2008, and 2009

7. The Sustainable Buildings Canada St. Lawrence Hall Green Charrette, 2008

8.  A Keynote Speaker at the IDEX / Green Building Festival in Toronto, 2009

See a PowerPoint including a podcast of Craig's RAIC Presentation on Resiliency entitled:

"Beyond Sustainability: Designing Our Cities For Resiliency In The Face of Climate Change, Population Growth and Peak Oil"

Some Reviews of Craig's past speaking engagements:

"Intelligent knowledgable, well-researched thoughtful messages."  (Murray Frankel, Montreal)

"I appreciated your frankness and honesty in sharing with us visions of a difficult future - very refreshing and hopeful despite the sobering trajectory we all face. Thanks for risking to tell us an uncomfortable truth."    (Dundley Thompson, Winnipeg)

"Entertaining and energetic delivery. The message was well structured with an evoking and powerful message."    (Charles Lau, Toronto)

"This presentation was an excellent combination of well documented facts, clear and insightful graphs, and a passionate speaker who sees the problem and yet has hope for the future."    (James W. O'Neill, Houston)

"Well prepared, well delivered, and thanks for the summer reading list."    (Stephen Pope, Ottawa)

"Knowledgeable, clear, direct."    (Paul Roth, Toronto)