Lancelot Coar is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Manitoba, specializing in undergraduate and masters level design studio and construction technology lecture courses. In his studio Coar has collaborated over the past four years with the farming community of Clearwater, Manitoba. This partnership has helped to establish a laboratory for exploring design education and sustainable strategies for building and community development in an architecture design studio setting. The projects resulting from this studio range from conceptual design proposals to fully realized unbuild-design-build projects in the community. His studio has been awarded the Waste Reduction and Pollution Prevention Fund Grant, the University of Manitoba Presidential Outreach Award, and an Honorable Mention for the Manitoba Conservation Excellence in Sustainability Award.

Coar is also a researcher at the Center for Architectural Structures and Technology (CAST) at the University of Manitoba. His work at CAST focuses on innovative uses of conventional building materials in order to develop new architectural and structural potentials. His research explored the development of building systems using fabric formed concrete, fabric reinforced concrete, fabric reinforced ice structures, and flexible wood, steel, and fibreglass structures.

Lancelot Coar worked in both architecture and engineering practices prior to teaching. He received Bachelor of Science degrees in Architectural Engineering and in Civil Engineering at Drexel University, and later earned his Master in Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley. His work has been featured in a wide range of publications and exhibited in museums and galleries in Paris, New York, Philadelphia, Washington DC, and Winnipeg. He is also a founding partner in Co|Re Collaborative and a member of the performance art collective The Abzurbs.

Lancelot Coar
Assistant Professor
University of Manitoba
201 J.A. Russell Building
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3T 2N2
CANADA

(204) 474-6794
coar@cc.umanitoba.ca