Will Alsop, the architect behind OCAD’s audacious Sharp Centre for Design and the remarkable WESTside Lofts sales centre, has just been announced to join the faculty at Toronto’s Ryerson University architecture department.

"Let’s put it this way," says the unconventional architect/painter, "if Harvard were to ask me to do something, I’d probably say no."

As the man who always cheers for the underdog explains it, "I like the graduate department at Ryerson because it’s fairly young, it’s only been around for a few years, and I like things that are new."

Read Christopher Hume’s Toronto Star article here.