MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE
Cesar Rodriguez Perfetti—Vestacon Limited Award
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Cesar Rodriguez Perfetti—Vestacon Limited Award
About the Award
Vestacon Limited Award:
TMU alumnus Sam Falzone is the President of Vestacon Limited. By creating this award, Sam hopes to foster the same values of leadership and community involvement that have guided him throughout his career. This award will provide financial support and recognition for an undergraduate (third or fourth/final year) or a graduate student within the Department of Architectural Science who demonstrates leadership and excellence in project management
Through my academic and professional journey at Toronto Metropolitan University, I have developed strong leadership and project management skills that merge creativity with organization and collaboration with accountability.
Many of these abilities have been strengthened through experiential learning in design-build projects, where coordinating teams, managing fabrication timelines, and adapting to real-world challenges were essential. These experiences have refined my capacity to structure workflows, establish effective communication systems, and balance design intent with technical and logistical realities. I have learned to lead teams through clear goal setting, milestone tracking, and adaptive problem-solving, ensuring that every stage—from concept to fabrication—aligns with shared objectives. Effective leadership in architecture, I have found, depends on fostering collective engagement, maintaining design integrity under constraints, and transforming abstract ideas into built form.
These principles guided my work in the Sacred Studio, where the development of St. Anthony Church required the conceptualization of a sacred space and the formulation of architectural strategies and materialization devices for the building. The design responds to the traditional liturgical form requested by the client, the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), while integrating contemporary fabrication and environmental strategies. St. Anthony Church applies fundamental principles of church design through the study and application of the golden proportion in the floor plan and other architectural and interior elements. This compositional logic extends to furniture design and transitions into parametric design to create the “infinite windows,” inspired by natural references as reflections of God’s creation, which further evolve into geometries shaping the church’s interior fixtures. Tradition is upheld through the proportional relationships between plan and elevation, synthesizing Catholic theology and the epic narrative of salvation.
The building also demonstrates a deep understanding of its surrounding conditions and employs innovative architectural systems. It uses a modular glulam structure shaped by catenary curves and mass timber modular walls to facilitate on-site fabrication. In response to Toronto’s Green Roof Standard and its urban context, the design integrates a green roof that contributes to reducing the urban heat island effect.
The result is a Church that embodies both functionality and sustainability—an architecture grounded in tradition yet responsive to its context through thoughtful material choices, construction technologies, and engagement with the urban fabric.
Vestacon Limited Award:
TMU alumnus Sam Falzone is the President of Vestacon Limited. By creating this award, Sam hopes to foster the same values of leadership and community involvement that have guided him throughout his career. This award will provide financial support and recognition for an undergraduate (third or fourth/final year) or a graduate student within the Department of Architectural Science who demonstrates leadership and excellence in project management
Through my academic and professional journey at Toronto Metropolitan University, I have developed strong leadership and project management skills that merge creativity with organization and collaboration with accountability.
Many of these abilities have been strengthened through experiential learning in design-build projects, where coordinating teams, managing fabrication timelines, and adapting to real-world challenges were essential. These experiences have refined my capacity to structure workflows, establish effective communication systems, and balance design intent with technical and logistical realities. I have learned to lead teams through clear goal setting, milestone tracking, and adaptive problem-solving, ensuring that every stage—from concept to fabrication—aligns with shared objectives. Effective leadership in architecture, I have found, depends on fostering collective engagement, maintaining design integrity under constraints, and transforming abstract ideas into built form.
These principles guided my work in the Sacred Studio, where the development of St. Anthony Church required the conceptualization of a sacred space and the formulation of architectural strategies and materialization devices for the building. The design responds to the traditional liturgical form requested by the client, the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), while integrating contemporary fabrication and environmental strategies. St. Anthony Church applies fundamental principles of church design through the study and application of the golden proportion in the floor plan and other architectural and interior elements. This compositional logic extends to furniture design and transitions into parametric design to create the “infinite windows,” inspired by natural references as reflections of God’s creation, which further evolve into geometries shaping the church’s interior fixtures. Tradition is upheld through the proportional relationships between plan and elevation, synthesizing Catholic theology and the epic narrative of salvation.
The building also demonstrates a deep understanding of its surrounding conditions and employs innovative architectural systems. It uses a modular glulam structure shaped by catenary curves and mass timber modular walls to facilitate on-site fabrication. In response to Toronto’s Green Roof Standard and its urban context, the design integrates a green roof that contributes to reducing the urban heat island effect.
The result is a Church that embodies both functionality and sustainability—an architecture grounded in tradition yet responsive to its context through thoughtful material choices, construction technologies, and engagement with the urban fabric.
