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
Christopher Clarke
Supervisor: Annmarie Adams
Email: christopher.clarke2 [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
Supervisors: Alberto Pérez-Gómez/Chriscinda Henry
Email : zoe.cope [at] mail.mcgill.ca
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
Arièle Dionne-Krosnick
BFA Art History and Studio Arts, Concordia University (2012); MA Visual and Critical Studies, SAIC (2014)
Research interests and specializations:
- American Architecture
- Critical race studies
- Visual culture
- Civil protest and the built environment
Thesis title (provisional): Spaces of Bathing: Architecture and Blackness in the United States (1954-1968)
Supervisor: Ipek Türeli
Email: ariele.dionne-krosnick [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Remy Fortin
B. Sc (Arch.) Université de Montréal (2017); MArch, McGill University (2020)
Research interests and specializations:
- Passive thermoregulation and ventilation
- Biogenic and regenerative materials
- Material efficiency
- Materials design
- Adaptive comfort and thermal resilience
Thesis title: Design and co-optimization of biogenic thermal mass for passive cooling and natural ventilation
Supervisor: Salmaan Craig
Email: remy.fortin [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 Mestiza and the Morena: The Social Construction of the Filipina and Postcolonial Domestic Architecture in the Philippines (1946-1986)”
Supervisor: Annmarie Adams
Email: kimberly.gultia [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Anna Halepaska
Supervisor: Salmaan Craig
Email: anna.halepaska [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
Fiona Kenney
BA , Ryerson University (2018); MDes History and Philosophy of Design, Harvard University (2020)
Research Interests and Specializations:
- end-of-life architecture; death studies
- care, relationality, and care ethics
- medical architecture
- feminist theory
- moral philosophy
Thesis title (provisional): Architecture as/of Care: Spatial Interpretations of Palliative Philosophies, 1967-2000
Supervisor: Annmarie Adams
Email: fiona.kenney [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 and architecture
- nature and animal studies
- geometry
- computation
Thesis title: “CTRL+Z: Reclaiming Nature in the age of computational novelty. Alternatives in Architectural Design.”
Nathalie is supported by the Fonds National de la Recherche, Luxembourg (11273634).
Supervisor: Alberto Pérez-Gómez/Theodora Vardouli
Email: nathalie.kerschen [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Destiny Kirumira
BA Mathematics & Physics, University of Alberta (2018); MArch, University of Calgary (2021)
Research interests and specializations:
- Black Canadian architecture
- Black diasporic studies
- colonial and postcolonial cultural landscapes
- vernacular architecture
- domestic architecture and domesticity
Thesis title: Rebuilding the Black Home: The Architecture of Black Settlements in Canada (1780-1930)
Supervisor: Ipek Türeli
Email: destiny.kirumira [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Maxime Leblanc
B.Sc.(Arch.) Université de Montréal (2018); M.Arch. McGill University (2020)
Research interests and specializations:
- Architectures of Simulation
- Virtual Environments
- History of Virtual Reality
- History of Computing
- Digital Media
Thesis title: "Architectures of Simulation: the Dome, the CAVE, and the Headset"
Supervisor: Theodora Vardouli
Email: max.leblanc [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:
- Indigenous-settler spatial relations
- (settler) colonial space
- Indigenous architectures
- environmental humanities
- architecture and literature
Thesis title: “'They Have Decided What Houses Will be Built': Indigenous Peoples, Architecture, and the Settler-Colonial State, 1920-1970s."
Supervisor: Annmarie Adams
Email: magdalena.milosz [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Gonzalo Muñoz Vera
BArch, University of Chile (2004); MArch, University of Chile (2006); Post-Prof Master (History & Theory of Architecture), McGill University (2012)
Research interests and specializations:
- · architecture representation
- · visual culture
- · architecture education
- · architecture publications
- · global perspectives in urbanism
Thesis title: “What is True has no Windows: The Robert Burford’s Cityscape Panoramas at the Leicester-Square Rotunda (1824-1836).”
Supervisors: Ricardo Castro/Ipek Türeli
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: “Reading Architectural Evidence through the Montreal WCTU Sheltering Home Register”
Supervisor: Annmarie Adams
Email: laura.obrien [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Dijana Omeragić 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, anatomy, and pre-modern architectural treatises
- Histories of matter, body, and Catholic humoral medicine
- Early modern critical whiteness studies
- Fifteenth-century fortifications and military architecture
Thesis title: “Technologies of Soul: Michelangelo’s Vital Spirit and Architectural Disegno”
Supervisors: Alberto Pérez-Gómez/David Theodore
Email: dijana.omeragikjapostolski [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Peter Osborne
BCom, Queen’s University (2008); MArch, University of Toronto (2014); MDes Energy & Environments, Harvard University (2019)
Research interests and specialization:
- Construction ecology
- Architecture & design theory
- Ecological economics
- Environmental assessment & development
- Uneven social & ecological exchange
Thesis title: “Forest-Building: a new conceptual model for the integrated design of forests and building”
Supervisor: Michael Jemtrud
Email: peter.osborne [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Elissavet Pertigkiozoglou
MArch, National Technical University of Athens (2016); MDes Technology, Harvard Graduate School of Design (2018)
Research interests and specialization:
- History of Architectural Practice
- History of Computing and Information Technologies
- Science and Technology Studies
- Digital Humanities
- Work Relationships, Labour, Collaboration
Thesis title: "Programmed Collaboration: Work Relationships in Software for Building Design, 1970-2010"
Supervisor: Theodora Vardouli
Email: eliza.pertigkiozoglou [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:
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History of 19th and early 20th-century scientific aesthetics
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Exchanges between art, architecture and psychology
Thesis title: “Doctors of L’Esprit nouveau: Experimental Psychology and the Modern Aesthetic Subject, 1920-1925”
Supervisor: David Theodore
Email: aaron.richmond [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Daniel Rondinel
B.Arch. Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima (2004); M.Arch. Cornell University (2011)
Research interests and specializations:
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Urban metabolism & the city as a system
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Entropy in architecture and urban development.
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Thermodynamics within the city
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Sustainable design & ecology
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Social and environmental impacts of the built environment
Thesis title (provisional): An urban metabolism study from a thermodynamic perspective. 2050 low entropy cities.
Supervisor: Naomi Keena
Email: daniel.rondinel [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”
Supervisors: Alberto Pérez-Gómez/Sandeep Banerjee
Email: ali.shahbazin [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: Women writers in the metropolis: Urban atmospheres in late-Victorian London
Supervisor: Martin Bressani
Email: merve.talu [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Beatriz Takahashi
Supervisor: Ipek Türeli
Email: beatriz.takahashi [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: Of homes, domains, and boundaries : Immigration and the change of Toronto’s postwar suburbs since 1980.
Supervisor: Nik Luka
Email: giacomo.valzania [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Erica Vinson
Supervisor: Annmarie Adams
Email: erica.vinson [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Katrin Zavgorodny-Freedman
BA (Hons.) Art History, University of Toronto (2019), MA Art History, University of Toronto (2021)
Research interests and specializations:
- West coast and Canadian architectural history
- Collaborative and professional architectural networks
- Art history
Thesis title: Building Pluralism: The Impact of Collaboration in Vancouver Architecture on Canadian Identity Building, 1963-1983
Supervisors: Annmarie Adams/David Theodore
Email: katrin.zavgorodny-freedman [at] mail.mcgill.ca
