Laure Nolte

Laure Nolte

Laure Nolte is an interdisciplinary artist and architecture student living in Halifax, NS. Laure is

currently an M.Arch candidate at Dalhousie School of Architecture focusing on ecological material
research and computational design and is an early career artist with Canada Council for the Arts. She studied at NSCAD University before completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Concordia University in Montreal. Upon graduation Laure won second place in the Victoria Emerging Art Awards was represented by Victoria Emerging Art Gallery on Vancouver Island for one year. Following this year of gallery representation, she spent three years in Berlin, DE and Czechia, began writing and drawing prolifically and was co-editor of The Four Poets, a Toronto based literary journal. While in Berlin, Laure was involved in several performances and gallery shows including a skype in performance in
collaboration with Daniel Taylor for the Khyber. She returned to Canada after this period abroad to study architecture at Dalhousie School of Architecture. In 2019 Laure was awarded the RAIC International Prize Scholarship for her research interest in neuroscience for architecture, and spent a week in California attending a neuroscience for architecture intensive. In 2019 she co-founded Supernatural Design Collective, a Halifax based non-profit that offers programming centred around ecological design paradigms and advocates for an architecture that acknowledges and reinforces planetary social and ecological systems. In 2020 she won Co-op Student of the Year at Dalhousie School of Architecture. She was awarded the George W. Rogers M.Arch entrance scholarship for her work bringing ecological issues to the forefront of design education.