Project: COVID-19 and Architecture
Supervisor: Dr. Adam Rysanek
UBC (2021–2023)
LOLA Landscape Architects – Internship
Projects: Kasteel Etzenrade with Piet Oudolf, Spoorpark Simpelveld, VoltaNord Basel with MVRDV and Rüst x Gerle Architekten
Supervisor: Brigitta van Weeren
Rotterdam, Netherlands (2019/06-12)
Landscape Ethics Studio – Graduate Research Assistant
Supervisor: Prof. Fionn Byrne
UBC (2020/05-06)
Watershed Materials – Graduate Research Assistant
Project: Sidewalk Labs, Toronto
Supervisor: Prof. Joseph Dahmen
UBC (2018/01-04)
elementsLab – Geospatial Analyst
Project: Community Scale, Urban Form and Energy in the Built Environment
Supervisors: Prof. Ron Kellett, Prof. Cynthia Girling, Dr. Jon Salter
UBC (2016-2018)
Garden Genie – Landscape Gardener
Vancouver, BC, Canada (2015)
Buchanan Dee & Adam Rysanek (2023b). The influence of building design factors on COVID-19 outbreaks in British Columbia’s long-term care homes. HB Europe 2023 Proceedings, Aachen, Germany.
Buchanan Dee (2017). The Evolution of Piazza Italia. British Columbia Society of Landscape Architects, Sitelines magazine [April 2017]. Winner of the Philips Tattersfield Essay Contest.
Aachen, Germany (June 11-14, 2023)
8-min presentation + 2-min Q&A
11th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation & Energy Conservation (IAQVEC 2023)
Tokyo, Japan (May 20-23, 2023)
10-min presentation + 3-min Q&A
Healthy Buildings America (HB America 2021) International Society for Indoor Air Quality (ISIAQ)
Honolulu, USA (January 18-20, 2022) - virtual attendance
8-min presentation with 2-min Q&A
Environment By Design
Architecture_Media_Politics_Society: Health, Wellbeing, and Place
Göteborg, Sweden (December 1-3, 2021) - virtual attendance
15-min presentation with 5-min Q&A
PICS Research Colloquium. Pacific Institute for Climate Solution
Vancouver, Canada (October 13, 2017)
8-minute presentation
Instructor: Brendan Cole Buchanan Dee
UBC (2023/01-05)
ARCH 548 Graduate Project 1 – Graduate Teaching Assistant
Instructor: Prof. Matthew Soules
UBC (2021/09-12)(2022/09-12)
DES 220 Architecture in Context – Graduate Teaching Assistant
Instructor: Roy Cloutier
UBC (2022/09-12)
DES 130 Design, Culture, Ecology – Graduate Teaching Assistant
Instructor: Dr. Allison Earl
UBC (2021/01-04)
ARCH 597F Architectural Histories – Graduate Teaching Assistant
Instructor: Dr. Tijana Vujosevic
UBC (2020/09-12)
ARCH 597D Density, NL – Graduate Teaching Assistant
Instructor: Colette Parras
UBC (2020/07-08)
LARC 316 Trees & Shrubs – Graduate Teaching Assistant
Instructors: Prof. Douglas Justice & Karin England
UBC (2017/08-12)
Synthetic Worlds: Ecological Architecture and Enclosure in an Age of Crisis
Committee: Prof. Joseph Dahmen (Chair), Prof. Fionn Byrne, Dr. Adam Rysanek, Brendan Buchanan Dee
UBC SALA (2022)
John Benner - MArch, Graduate Project
Healing Village: Reconceptualizing the Rural Hospital
Committee: Dr. Adam Rysanek (Chair), Troy Ransdell, Eleonore Leclerc, Brendan Buchanan Dee
UBC SALA (2022)
Angela Wen - MArch, Graduate Project
A Darwinian City: Decentering Humans in Architectural Design in an Evolving Urban Ecology
Committee: Dr. Adam Rysanek (Chair), Prof. Mari Fujita, Brendan Buchanan Dee
UBC SALA (2022)
UBC SALA (October 31, 2023)
DES 403 with Bill Pechet – Bachelor Design Studio
UBC SALA (April 25, 2023)
DES 402 with Bill Pechet – Bachelor Design Studio
UBC SALA (February 16, 2023)
LARC 504/5 with Fionn Byrne – Graduate Design Studio
UBC SALA (November 1, 2022)
UBC APSC Rising Star (2023)Iredale Scholarship (2021)
RAIC Honour Roll (2021)
Gerson Scholarship (2020)
Gower Memorial Scholarship (2020)
AIBC Scholarship (2019, 2016)
Ray Cole Scholarship (2018)
SSHRC Scholarship (2017)
Cleveland Scholarship (2017)
PWL Scholarship (2017)
Kaisan Ltd. Scholarship (2017)
UBC SALA Entrance Scholarship (2016)
Graphics: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
GIS & LiDAR: ArcGIS, QGIS, CloudCompare
Data: Spreadsheets, Zotero, Excel, Word
Programming: CGA, JS, Spreadsheet Macros
Landscaping: Plant ID (Zone 8b), Planting, Pruning, Hedging, Slope Stabilization
Workshop: Model Building, Woodwork, Metalwork, Laser Cutting, 3D Printing
University of British Columbia (UBC)
School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture (SALA)
Vancouver, BC, Canada (2021-2022)
Master of Architecture + Master of Landscape Architecture (MArch + MLA)
UBC SALA, Dual Degree Program
Vancouver, BC, Canada (2016-2020)
Visiting Master Student
ETH-Zürich, Department of Architecture (D-Arch)
Zürich, Switzerland (2018/08-12)
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
McGill University, Department of Geography & Department of Political Science
Montréal, QC, Canada (2011-2015)
Undergraduate Exchange Student
University of Melbourne, School of Land and Environment
Melbourne, VIC, Australia (2013-2014)