Sylvia McAdam receives 2016 Margolese National Design for Living Prize

UBC’s school of architecture and landscape architecture has awarded the 2016 Margolese National Design for Living Prize to Sylvia McAdam, Canadian Architect reported.

McAdam, a citizen of the nêhiyaw (Cree) Nation and co-founder of the Idle No More movement, was recognized as a leader of a national conversation that raised awareness and brought pride and dignity to First Nations’ peoples and communities.