Meltem Al
BArch, Middle East Technical University (2010); MArch, Middle East Technical University (2013); MA in Architecture, University of California, Los Angeles (2015)
Research interests and specializations:
- neoliberal urbanism
- urban politics
- urban renewal
- housing
- fundamentalism in cities
- urban social movements
- architecture and social agency
- right to the city
Thesis title: “Spaces of Capital, Religion, and Ideology: Fundamentalist Housing Enclaves in Istanbul”
Supervisor: Ipek Türeli
Email: meltem.al [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Elijah Borrero
BA (Mathematics), SUNY Albany (2001); MArch (Professional), Parsons School of Design (2013); MArch (Post-Professional), McGill (2016)
Research interests and specializations:
- architecture, planning and military production in 20thc
- architectural historiography
- disciplinary exchanges
Thesis title: “Cold War Architectures: US Military Construction Campaigns in West Germany, 1950-1957”
Supervisor: David Theodore
Email: elijah.borrero [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Elisabeth Bouchard
B. Sc. Arch., Université Laval (2003); M. Arch., Université de Montréal (2005); registered architect, O.A.Q. (2011)
Research interests and specializations:
- arctic architecture
- history of science in the nineteenth and twentieth-century
- arcticality, nordicity and the representation of the north
- performance in architecture
Thesis title: “Imagining Performance: The Architecture of Arctic Field Science”
Supervisor: Theodora Vardouli
Email: elisabeth.bouchard [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Brian W. Brush
B.A. Environmental Design, Montana State University (2005); M.Arch, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation (2010); M.S. Urban Planning, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation (2010)
Research interests and specializations:
- digital design
- digital fabrication
- interactive architecture
- media architecture
- media facades
- light
- public space
- public art
- design theory
- community-based design
Thesis title: “Towards a Critical Media Tectonic: A Holistic Case Study on the Theory and Practice of Media Architecture and Its Relationship to the Political Economy of Place”
Supervisor: Michael Jemtrud
Email: brian.brush [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Zoë Cope
BS, Architecture (The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2015); M.Arch(The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2017)
Research interests and specializations :
- The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
- Architecture & Narrative
- Alternative Preservation Mechanisms
- Atmospheres & Presence
- ArchitectureHistory andTheory
Thesis title: Polia's Ghost: Unearthing theFemaleVoice of theHypnerotomachiaPoliphili
Supervisor: Alberto Pérez-Gómez
Email : zoe.cope [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Youki Cropas
DEF Diploma (French Language and Cultural Studies), Université François-Rabelais de Tours, France (2000); B.E.D.S. (Bachelor of Environmental Design Studies), Dalhousie University (2003); M.Arch I, Dalhousie University (2006); M.Arch II (History and Theory option), McGill University (2016)
Research interests and specializations:
- institutions
- social role of architecture
- human geography
- architecture and landscape
- architectural experience and perception
- critical reflections on architectural history and theory
Thesis title: “Institutional Intersections: Schools, Medicine, and Health, 1890-1920”
Supervisor: Annmarie Adams
Email: youki.cropas [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Jaimie Cudmore
BA (Geography (Urban Systems) and International Development Studies), McGill University (2008); B.URP (Post-Baccalaureate), Ryerson University (2011); M.ARCH (Post-Professional, Urban Design and Housing), McGill University (2012)
Research interests and specializations:
•Community-engaged learning, action research, and collaborative praxis
• Design and planning pedagogy and professionalization
•Spatial justice, Intersectionality, and queer theory
•Third spaces, informality, and public space
• Counter and insurgent uses, cultural landscapes, and actors
• Civic literacy and co-design
Thesis title: “Towards Transformative Praxis for Design and Planning”
Supervisor: Nik Luka
Email: jaimie.cudmore [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Maria Valentina Davila
Master Degree in Architecture, Los Andes University (2007); M.Arch (Construction), Madrid Polytechnic University (2009); Interior Architecture Post-Professional Master, Madrid Polytechnic University (2010); History and Theory of Architecture Post-Professional Master, McGill University (2014)
Research interests and specializations:
- servants and service spaces throughout history
- domesticity and the meaning of home
- power and agency in Latin American architecture
- Latin American housing policies
- women’s influence in the informal housing system: barrios and favelas of Latin America
- architecture, built environment and the construction of class identities in Latin America
- social justice and space
Thesis title: “Women in the Home Front: Venezuelan Domestic Workers and the Appropriation of Architecture”
Supervisor: Annmarie Adams
Email: valentina.davila [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Maria Patricia Farfan
BArch, Piloto de Colombia University (1999); MArch, McGill University (2003)
Research interests and specialization:
- Nasa-Paéz indigenous community, architecture, territory, culture, landscape, spiritual belief, mythology, tradition
- Andean mountain, defense, dwelling, sacred orchard, resilience
Thesis title: “Architecture and Tradition: Nasa Yat (Cosmo-Centered Dwelling) and the Tull (Sacred Orchard)”
Supervisor: Ricardo Castro
Email: maria.farfan_sopo [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Kimberly Gultia
BSArch, University of San Carlos (2003); BFA, University of San Carlos (2007); MArch, University of San Carlos (2015)
Research interests and specializations:
- colonial and postcolonial cultural landscapes
- vernacular architecture
- domestic architecture and domesticity
- gender, sexuality, and space
- media, representation, and identity
- material culture
Thesis title: “The Social Construction of the Modern Filipina and Postcolonial Domestic Architecture in the Philippines (1946-1986)”
Supervisor: Annmarie Adams
Email: kimberly.gultia [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Aniel Guxholli
B.Sc. Arch (2009) and M.Arch (2012), Università Iuav di Venezia; Visiting student, Université de Montréal (2008), Université Catholique de Louvain - site Saint-Luc, Bruxelles (2010), Venice International University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences (2006-2009)
Research Interest and Specializations:
- 19th-century Belgium: architecture, urban design and letters
- Fin-de-siècle Europe
- Art Nouveau in Brussels
- 19th and 20th-century architectural historiography
- Atmospheres in architecture and urban milieux, design and literary representations
Thesis title: “Victor Horta’s hôtel Tassel winter-garden: A lineage under glass.”
Supervisor: Martin Bressani
Email: aniel.guxholli [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Utku Karakaya
B.Arch., METU (2011); M.Arch., METU (2014)
Research Interests and Specializations:
- design activism and humanitarian architecture
- horizontal practice models and socially-engaged architecture
- user involvement and participation in architecture practice
- spatial justice and urban space politics
- post-colonial theory and urban space
Thesis title: “Organizing for Public Interest and Spatial Justice: An Ethnography of Socially Engaged Architecture in Turkey”
Supervisor: Ipek Türeli
Email: utku.karakaya [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Nathalie Kerschen
B. Arch, ENSA Paris-Malaquais (2008); M. Arch, ENSA Paris-Malaquais (2010); Post-Professional MA Architecture, McGill-University (2011); BA Philosophy, Paris-Sorbonne IV (2014)
Research interests and specializations:
- phenomenology
- contemporary art
- nature
- geometry
- computation
Thesis title: “CTRL+Z: On the Question of Nature in Bio-inspired Design and the Work of Olafur Eliasson”
Nathalie is supported by the Fonds National de la Recherche, Luxembourg (11273634).
Supervisor: Alberto Pérez-Gómez
Email: nathalie.kerschen [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Sonya Kohut
B.E.D., University of Manitoba (2005); M.Arch., T.U. Delft (2009); M.Arch. (History and Theory), McGill University (2013)
Research interests and specializations:
- renaissance architecture
- Vitruvius
- history of science
- early modern magic
- early modern materiality
- architecture and literary imagination
Thesis topic: “An Immaterial Architecture: John Dee’s Mathematicall Praeface to Euclid”
Supervisor: Alberto Pérez-Gómez
Email: sonya.kohut [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Ayca Koseoglu
BArch, Middle East Technical University (2009); MA (Architectural History), Middle East Technical University (2012)
Research interests and specializations:
- politics of public space
- urban movements
- placemaking
- architecture’s social significance
- spatial justice
Thesis title: “Taking Place/Making Place: Civil Protest and Urban Design in Istanbul’s Beyazıt and Taksim Squares, 1960-2013”
Supervisor: Ipek Türeli
Email: ayca.koseoglu [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Yildiz Ipek Mehmetoglu
BArch, Middle East Technical University (2012); MA in Architectural History, Middle East Technical University (2014); Erasmus exchange, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-Belleville (2010-11)
Research interests and specializations:
- gender and space
- travel studies and architecture
- art and architecture
- transatlantic mobility
- architectural modernisms
Thesis title: “Encounters of the Female Traveler: Gender, Architecture and Mobility in the Post-World War II”
Supervisor: Annmarie Adams
Email: yildiz.mehmetoglu [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Magdalena Milosz
BAS (Honours), University of Waterloo (2009); GDip, Cognitive Science, University of Waterloo (2015); MArch, University of Waterloo (2015)
Research interests and specializations:
- Canada
- colonialism
- indigenous-settler relations
- postcolonial theory
- architecture and literature
Thesis topic: “'They Have Decided What Houses Will be Built': Indigenous Peoples, Architecture, and the Canadian State, 1920-1970"
Supervisor: Annmarie Adams
Email: magdalena.milosz [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Gonzalo Muñoz
BArch, University of Chile (2004); MArch, University of Chile (2006); Post-Prof Master (History & Theory of Architecture), McGill University (2012)
Research interests and specializations:
- architectural representation
- nineteenth-century panoramas
- visual culture
- architectural publications (printed)
- photography
Thesis title: “The World as a Panoramic Backdrop: Quebec's Cyclorama at the Turn of the 19th and the 20th Centuries”
Supervisor: Ricardo Castro
Email: gonzalo.munoz [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Laura Josephine O’brien
BFA (Art History, minor in English Literature), Concordia University (2014); MA (Art History), Concordia University (2016)
Research interests and specializations:
- gender, sexuality and space
- nineteenth-century urbanism
- spatial and feminist theory
- human geography
- feminist material culture
Thesis title: “Vice, Virtue and (In)Visibility: Single Women and the Architectural Network of the Montreal WCTU Shelter”
Supervisor: Annmarie Adams
Email: laura.obrien [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Dijana Omeragikj Apostolski
B.Eng. (Arch), Saints Cyril and Methodius University(2009); MPhil, Saints Cyril and Methodius University(2014); MArch, McGill University (2016)
Research interests and specializations:
- embodiment, architecture, and architectural theories
- anatomy and architecture
- aesthetics and phenomenology
- architectural history and theory with a focus on the Cinquecento
- Cinquecento fortifications, military architecture, and theories
Thesis title: “Metamorphosis through the Extended Body: Michelangelo’s Theories of Architecture”
Supervisor: Alberto Pérez-Gómez
Email: dijana.omeragikjapostolski [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Gina Page
BHSc (Addictions Counselling, with Great Distinction), University of Lethbridge (2007); MArch, University of Toronto (2013)
Research interests and specializations:
- healthcare and hospital design
- behavioural science studies in hospitals
- environmental psychology
- evidence-based design and patient-centred care
- post WWII to present
Thesis title: “Aspiring to Heal, Not Harm: The Impact of Evidence-Based Design on Canadian and American Hospital Architecture”
Supervisor: (pending)
Email: gina.page [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Véronique Proteau
B. Sc. Arch, Université Laval (2003); M. Arch, Université Laval (2005)
Research interests and specializations:
- history, theory and contemporary practice of architecture
- museum design
- narrative and literary approaches to architecture
- representation and communication in architecture
Thesis title: “Building Narratives: Storytelling through the Architecture of the Contemporary Museum”
Supervisor: Martin Bressani
Email: veronique.proteau [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Aaron Richmond
BA, University of King’s College (2002); MPHIL, University of Cambridge (2004); MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art (2014)
Research interests and specializations:
- intersections in 20thcentury art and architecture
- critical models in the psychology of space
Thesis title: “The Critical Reception of German Aesthetics within the French PeriodicalL’Esprit Nouveau, from 1920-1925.”
Supervisor: David Theodore
Email: aaron.richmond [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Ali Reza Shahbazin
BS in Arch, Qazvin Azad University, QIAU, Iran (2013); MArch, Savannah College of Art and Design, SCAD, USA (2018)
Research interests and specializations:
- City Novels
- Imaginary Cities
- Architecture and Literature
- Fictive Space
- Middle Eastern Art and Architecture Studies
- Narrative Architecture
Thesis title: “The Depiction of a ‘City’ as a ‘Protagonist’ in the Middle Eastern City Novels”
Supervisor: Alberto Pérez-Gómez
Email: ali.shahbazin [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Tanya Southcott
B.ES (Pre-professional Architecture), University of Waterloo (2003); M.Arch (Professional), University of Waterloo (2005); Professional Specialization Certificate (Heritage Conservation Planning), University of Victoria (2011); M.Arch (Post Professional), McGill University (2013)
Research interests and specializations:
- architectural photography
- demolition and urban renewal
- gender and space
- visual and material culture
- heritage conservation
Thesis title: “Memory Makers: Women, Photography, and Demolition in Montreal, 1966-1975”
Supervisor: Annmarie Adams
Email: tanya.southcott [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Cigdem Talu
B.Arch, Politecnico di Milano (2012); M.Arch (Professional), Politecnico di Milano (2015); M.Arch (Post-Professional, History and Theory of Architecture), McGill University (2016)
Research Interests and Specializations:
- Nineteenth-century architecture and urban atmospheres in London
- Gender, sexuality, and space
- Late-Victorian women’s press and magazines
- Public space and social agency
Thesis title: The Flâneuse and the Metropolis: Urban Atmospheres in Late-Victorian Women’s Writing
Supervisor: Martin Bressani
Email: merve.talu [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Julia Tischer
B.Arch, Universidad del Valle (2004); M.Arch (Minimum Cost Housing), McGill University (2009)
Research interests and specializations:
- gender, sexuality and space
- cultural landscape studies and vernacular architecture
- innovative architectural research methods
- memory and space
- spatial agency and public history
- cultural geography
Thesis title: “Symbol, Shelter and Shack: Women’s Spaces in German Bunker Architecture (1940-1961)"
Supervisor: Annmarie Adams
Email: julia.tischer [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Alexandre Emmanuel Trudeau
BA (Honours Philosophy), McGill University (1997); MArch, McGill University (2017)
Research interests and specializations:
- spatial justice and pathologies
- outsider architecture and alternate domesticities
- homeless studies
- Canadian indigenous architecture
- narrative frameworks
Thesis title: “The Architecture of Hidden Homes and Portable Domesticities among the Homeless in Metro Vancouver"
Supervisor: Annmarie Adams
Email: alexandre.trudeau [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Giacomo Valzania
M.Arch, University of Bologna (2013); M.Arch. Post-prof. Urban Design and Housing, McGill University (2017)
Research interests and specializations:
- Suburban landscapes
- Collectivehousing
- Urban space and right to the city
- Immigration
- Postmodernity
Thesis title: Immigration and the change of suburbs in the postmodern metropolis
Supervisor: Nik Luka
Email: giacomo.valzania [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Dustin Valen
BEDS, Dalhousie University (2006); MArch, Dalhousie University (2009); MArch post-professional, University of Toronto (2013)
Research interests and specializations:
- history and theory of architecture
- colonial cultural landscapes (focus on Newfoundland)
- nineteenth-century environmental architecture
- modern architecture in Canada
Thesis title: “Maritime by Design: Modernity and the Social-Politics of Landscape in Newfoundland, 1855-1939”
Supervisor: Robert Mellin
Email: dustin.valen [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Benjamin Wareing
BENJAMIN WAREING
MArch, Victoria University of Wellington (2009); MArch (Post-professional), McGill University (2014)
Research interests and specializations:
- energy and exuberance in architecture
- aesthetic theory
- ecological urbanism
- agonistic pluralism
- research creation
Thesis title: “Reframing Cultural Value in Sustainable Design”
Supervisor: Michael Jemtrud
Email: benjamin.wareing [at] mail.mcgill.ca
