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Dan Hanganu (Canadá)

To his great credit, he has also, throughout his career, maintained a deep commitment to architectural education and the academy, where he has been unusually generous with his time and energy. He holds appointments at the McGill University School of Architecture and l’École d’Architecture de l’Université de Montréal, and he has lectured or taught at more than two dozen other universities in Canada, the US, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, France, Italy, and China.

Hanganu is equally comfortable, and convincing, in both the classroom and the boardroom; he is attentive and respectful, and profoundly inspiring, whether working with students, with clients, or members of the general public.

The Gelber Law Library at McGill University is typical of his built work. It is clearly and legibly organized, well-crafted, dignified, and not merely beautiful but poetic; it takes its cues from the geometry of a very complex site and from a program that is centred on the user experience. Hanganu is well known for his imagination and often mischievous delight in the unexpected; he uses a highly inventive palette of materials and forms to create buildings that are, without exception, expressions of optimism and sources of pleasure and delight.

Hanganu is a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and an Academician of the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts, and he holds Honorary Doctorates from Ion Mincu University, his alma mater in Bucharest, and from l’Université Laval.
Dan Hanganu (Canadá)