Kearon Roy Taylor

Kearon Roy Taylor is the Design Research Fellow at the School of Architecture Northeastern. Their work centres around the political economy of architecture and urbanism, and developing innovative representational tools for considering architecture in a territorial context.

As long-time Associate Partner at the award-winning firm Lateral Office, they served as design lead on built work in the extreme environment of Canada’s arctic North, as well as numerous large-scale international exhibitions including the Venice Biennale of Architecture. Lateral Office’s first major built work, the Qaujigiartiit Health Research Centre in Iqaluit, NU, was honoured with a Canadian Architect Award of Merit (2023).

Prior to joining the faculty at Northeastern, they served as Reyner Banham Fellow at SUNY Buffalo, as well as Lecturer at the University of Toronto’s John H. Daniels School of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. As organiser, they served as co-steward of The Architecture Lobby’s Tkaronto chapter, where they were engaged in the creation of the collaborative mapping project countermap.land for documenting racist and colonial spaces in “Canada.”