Born in 1969, Todd earns a bachelor degree in Environmental Planning at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, in Canada and a master degree in Architecture at the McGill University, in Montreal. While carrying on design works in Austria, Germany, Russia and Norway, he teaches at the Cornell University. Particularly interested in the connection between architecture and natural landscape, he has recently implemented the “Fogo Island Studios” and the “Fogo Island Inn”, a modern tourist residential facility, eco‐friendly and perfectly in line with the Canadian Islands natural landscape.