Draft:Lisa Rochon
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Comment: This is still not properly sourced. We're not just looking for verification of facts here, we're looking for evidence that the facts have been deemed newsworthy by people without a vested interest in her career.
Firstly, you do not make a writer notable enough for Wikipedia by citing pieces of her own writing as proof that her own writing exists -- you make a writer notable enough for Wikipedia by citing sources in which other people are analyzing her writing as a subject, such as book reviews. So all of the footnotes where she's the bylined author of the content (2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 11) are inadmissible.
As you were already told by another prior reviewer, you cannot use an "our employee wins an award for work she did for us" article from her own employer as evidence that she's notable for winning an award -- her own employer does not represent independent coverage in a third party, so you would need to source the award claims to a different media outlet that wasn't paying her itself. So even if she wasn't personally the author of it, any other footnote coming from The Globe and Mail still isn't usable.
The McEwen School of Architecture is also a primary source for information about its own board, and Fort York is a primary source for information about its own board, so those also aren't notability-building sources -- to make her participation in those organizational boards notable would still require media coverage about her work on those boards, not just primary source verification that she serves on them.
And even when it comes to the sources that are GNG-worthy media outlets, many of those still aren't about her, but just glancingly mention her name in the process of being about something else, which is also not support for notability either.
A source has to be reliable (i.e. real media) and independent (i.e. not her own employer) and about her (i.e. not just briefly mentioning her name, but actually substantively analyzing her and her work) -- but very few of the footnotes here meet that standard, and the few that do meet that standard don't add up to enough. Bearcat (talk) 18:18, 12 February 2025 (UTC)
- Comment: Awards should be cited inline with independent sources. To be clear, the globe and mail cannot be used as a source for the fact that their employees won an award. Czarking0 (talk) 22:21, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
- Comment: "Rochon served as a board member on the Fort York Foundation" Unless there is a second independent source about her involvement then this is probably not notable Czarking0 (talk) 22:17, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
- Comment: "One of her career highlights was working alongside Jacobs to lead the citizen lobby to try to stop the demolition of the Ontario Place revolving outdoor amphitheatre (1971) designed by Eberhard Zeidler." This is not encyclopedic language Czarking0 (talk) 21:59, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
- Comment: I believe the photo is a copyright violation and I have nominated it for deletion Czarking0 (talk) 21:58, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
- Comment: On Wikipedia, all articles about biographies of living persons must meet certain requirements. All stated facts should be backed by reliable inline citations to ensure that the information is verifiable. Please ensure the draft is properly sourced before resubmitting. ~Liancetalk 17:53, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
Lisa Rochon | |
|---|---|
| Born | Oakville, Canada |
| Occupation | Author, Urban Designer |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Education | B.A. Honours Journalism & French, Carleton University
C.E.P. International Relations, Sciences Po Auditrice Modern Art, L'Ecole du Louvre M.A. Urban Design Studies, University of Toronto |
| Notable works | National “City Space” column (The Globe and Mail, 2000-2013)
Up North, Where Canada’s Architecture Meets the Land (Key Porter, 2005) Tuscan Daughter (Harper Collins, 2021) |
| Notable awards | Two-time winner of the National Newspaper Awards (2005 & 2006) Royal Architectural Institute of Canada's President's Award for Journalism (2008) |
| Partner | John Terry |
| Children | Geneviève, Alexander, Hannah and Dylan |
| Website | |
| https://lisarochon.ca/ | |
Lisa Rochon is a Canadian author, architecture critic, and a city builder.
Career
[edit]Rochon worked for The Globe and Mail as a critic of architecture for over a decade.[1] She defended and championed the cause of inspired, innovative architecture from Toronto to Mumbai[2], Copenhagen[3] and New York[4]. She has contributed cultural commentary in English and French to CBC Radio and Radio Canada, organized conferences such as Revell Toronto Helsinki (2010)[5] and contributed numerous essays and articles for books and journals such as Alphabet City (MIT Press)[6], Canadian Architect, Architectural Record (NYC)[7], and The Brick.
Rochon travelled across Canada to experience all of the buildings in her non-fiction book Up North, Where Canada's Architecture Meets the Land (Key Porter, 2005) that argues passionately for the significance and unique genius loci of modern Canadian architecture.[8] She has delivered many public lectures about architecture, place vs placelessness and spoken about cities that inspire or oppress.[9] One of her career highlights was working alongside Jacobs to lead the citizen lobby to try to stop the demolition of the Ontario Place revolving outdoor amphitheatre (1971) designed by Eberhard Zeidler.[10] Another was travelling to Dhaka, Bangladesh during an unexpected state of emergency to experience the National Assembly by Louis Kahn wandering its monumental spaces during a power black-out.[11]
Her debut book, Tuscan Daughter (Harper Collins), was released in 2021 to critical acclaim[12] and was translated into Italian and Serbian.
Harper Collins signed Rochon for her forthcoming novel about a monumental theft, cruelty and love set in 20th-century Paris.[13] It is set for publication in 2026.
Between 2016 and 2019, Rochon served as chair of the international architecture selection committee and design director for the Canadian Canoe Museum[14].
In 2018, she joined the McEwen International Advisory Board for Canada’s newest school of architecture.[15]
As design jury chair for the international competition, Winter Stations, Rochon helped to organize the temporary pop-up reinventions of the lifeguard stands along the eastern beaches from 2015 – 2018.[16][17][18] Rochon served as a board member on the Fort York Foundation[19], advocating for the 43-acre urban oasis and birthplace of Toronto. In response to Black Lives Matter and the cries among Indigenous people to be heard, she co-produced Red Embers, a series of 13 cedar gates featuring large banners by Indigenous women artists from across Turtle Island.[20] In 2021, she co-produced major wall murals within the historic Leuty Boathouse in the eastern Beaches painted by the celebrated artists Chief Lady Bird and Jacquie Comrie.[21]
Awards and nominations
[edit]| Award | Year | Result |
|---|---|---|
| National Newspaper Awards (Canada's equivalent to the Pulitzer Prize) | 2005 | Won |
| National Newspaper Awards | 2006 | Won |
| National Newspaper Awards | 2007 | Nominated |
| Royal Architectural Institute of Canada's President's Award for Journalism | 2008 | Won |
References
[edit]- ^ Sheppard, J (2007-05-11). "Globe wins four National Newspaper Awards". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2024-05-16.
- ^ Rochon, Lisa (2012-11-23). "In Mumbai, 'monster' home has multiple meanings". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2024-09-09.
- ^ Rochon, Lisa (2012-01-27). "Scandinavian for great design". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2024-09-09.
- ^ Rochon, Lisa (2012-03-23). "Take a walk on New York's High Line". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2024-09-09.
- ^ Architect, Canadian (2010-09-08). "REVELL/TORONTO/HELSINKI: Finnish Architecture and the Image of Modern Toronto". Canadian Architect. Retrieved 2024-09-09.
- ^ "The best in architecture". The Globe and Mail. 2006-05-24. Retrieved 2024-09-09.
- ^ "Lisa Rochon | Architectural Record". www.architecturalrecord.com. Retrieved 2024-09-09.
- ^ Berridge, Joe (2006). "Wood, Glass and Stone". Literary Review of Canada.
- ^ Rochon, Lisa (2003-05-14). "Uncle Sam's city plan". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
- ^ Zeidler, Eberhard (2013). Buildings Cities Life (Volume 1 ed.). Dundurn Press. pp. 143–152.
- ^ Rochon, Lisa (2007-10-06). "A modern fortress, as light as transcendence". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2024-05-23.
- ^ Somerville, Janet (2021-08-27). "LGBTQ characters star in four of the best new historical fiction novels". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
- ^ "Lisa Rochon | The Writers' Union of Canada". www.writersunion.ca. Retrieved 2024-09-09.
- ^ Bozikovic, Alex (2024-05-16). "Canadian Canoe Museum's new home is designed to 'pull you outside'". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2024-05-17.
- ^ "Identity". McEwen School of Architecture. Retrieved 2024-05-16.
- ^ Carodine, Victoria (2017-01-11). "Toronto's 2017 Winter Stations Design Competition Winners Revealed". Architect Magazine. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
- ^ Lynch, Patrick (2017-02-02). "8 Projects Selected to Transform Toronto's Beachfront in the 2017 Winter Stations Design Competition". ArchDaily. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
- ^ Moore, Shannon (2017-01-16). "Winners of third annual Winter Stations Design Competition announced". Canadian Architect. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
- ^ "Our Accomplishments". www.fortyork.ca. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
- ^ Beya, Christiane (2019-07-02). "Red Embers Public Art Installation Transforms Toronto's Allan Gardens". Canadian Architect. Retrieved 2024-05-23.
- ^ Shackleton, Al (2021-09-07). "Art reinvention planned for walls of the Leuty Boathouse this week". Beach Metro Community News. Retrieved 2024-05-23.