VIctor perez-amado, LEED AP BD+C
Victor Perez-Amado is an Assistant Professor (tenure track) at the Toronto Metropolitan University School of Urban and Regional Planning and a board of director member at Pride Toronto. 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 research is based on ageing-in-place studies and multigenerational housing, including in 2SLGBTQI+ communities. These projects include Aging Together and Queering Home, a partnership with Egale-Canada, Lathrop Communities in Massachusetts, a masterplan and design for independent and assisted living focusing on seniors with dementia and autism, and the Boston Home-Harmon Apartments, independent living for seniors with mental disabilities led by DiMella Shaffer, a Boston-based architecture practice. On another scale of engagement with the city, Perez-Amado is interested in activating public spaces by designing and building equitable and educational installations. His methodology is based on theories of placemaking, where he explores prototyping, visualization, public realm activation and community engagement.
Perez-Amado’s work has been exhibited at the 2019 and 2023 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism and the Harvard GSD Grounded Visionaries, 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 and most recently an “AZ 2024 Award” for Environmental Leadership on the project “Parks in Action.”