Current PhD students

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

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Thesis title: Spaces of Capital, Religion, and Ideology: Fundamentalist Housing Enclaves in Istanbul

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Supervisor: Ipek T眉reli

Email: meltem.al [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Christopher Clarke

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Supervisor: Annmarie Adams

Email: christopher.clarke2 [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Zo毛 Cope

BS, Architecture (The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2015); M.Arch (The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2017)

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Research interests and specializations :

Architectural Treatise Books
Early Modern Art/Architectural History
History of Science and Medicine
History and Theory of the Body
Classical Reception in the Renaissance

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Thesis title: Excavating Polia: Architecture and the female body in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499)

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Supervisors: Annmarie Adams

Email : zoe.cope [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Ari猫le Dionne-Krosnick

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BFA Art History and Studio Arts, Concordia University (2012); MA听Visual and Critical Studies, SAIC (2014)

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Research interests and specializations:

American Architecture
Critical race studies
Visual culture
Civil protest and the built environment

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Thesis title: Swimming Pools, Civil Rights, and the American City in the 1960s

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Supervisor: Ipek T眉reli

Email:听ariele.dionne-krosnick [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Remy Fortin

B. Sc (Arch.)听Universit茅 de Montr茅al (2017); MArch, 苹果淫院 (2020)

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Research interests and specializations:

Passive thermoregulation and ventilation
Biogenic and regenerative materials
Material efficiency
Materials design
Adaptive comfort and thermal resilience

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Thesis title:听Sub-ambient passive cooling inside naturally ventilated buildings made from bio-based materials

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Supervisor: Salmaan Craig

Email: remy.fortin [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Kimberly听Gultia

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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

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Thesis title: The听Mestiza听and the听Morena:听The Social Construction of the Filipina and Postcolonial Domestic Architecture in the Philippines (1946-1986)

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Supervisor: Annmarie Adams

Email: kimberly.gultia [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Anna Halepaska

Supervisor: Salmaan Craig

Email: anna.halepaska [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Fiona Kenney

BA , Ryerson University (2018); MDes History and Philosophy of Design, Harvard University (2020)

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Research Interests and Specializations:

end-of-life architecture; death studies
care, relationality, and care ethics
medical architecture
feminist theory
moral philosophy

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Thesis title (provisional):听More to the Design Than Just Architecture鈥�: Practices, Philosophies, and Architectures of Care, 1960-1995

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Supervisor: Annmarie Adams

Email:听fiona.kenney [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Destiny Kirumira

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BA Mathematics & Physics, University of Alberta (2018); MArch, University of Calgary (2021)

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Research interests and specializations:

Black Canadian architecture
Black diasporic studies
colonial and postcolonial cultural landscapes
vernacular architecture
domestic architecture and domesticity

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Thesis title: Rebuilding the Black Home: The Architecture of Black Settlements in Canada (1780-1930)

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Supervisor: Ipek T眉reli

Email:听destiny.kirumira [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Maxime Leblanc

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B.Sc.(Arch.) Universit茅 de Montr茅al (2018); M.Arch. 苹果淫院 (2020)

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Research interests and specializations:

Architectures of Simulation
Virtual Environments
History of Virtual Reality
History of Computing
Digital Media

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Thesis title:听Architectures of Simulation: the Dome, the CAVE, and the Headset

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Supervisor: Theodora Vardouli

Email: max.leblanc [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Christos Montsenigos

MArch, National Technical University of Athens (2017), MSc, National Technical University of Athens (2021)

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Research interests and specialization:

Histories and Theories of Landscape Design 鈥� The English Landscape Garden
Environmental Humanities
Eighteenth-century Studies
The British Empire and Histories of Conservation

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Thesis title (provisional): On Frailty and Growth: Climate, Narrative, and Garden Design, 1750-1850

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Supervisor: Martin Bressani

Email:christos.montsenigos [at] mail.mcgill.ca (听)christos.montsenigos [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Laura听Josephine听O鈥橞rien

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BFA (Art History, minor in English Literature), Concordia University (2014); MA (Art History), Concordia University (2016)

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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

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Supervisor: Annmarie Adams

Email: laura.obrien [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Peter Osborne听

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BCom, Queen鈥檚 University (2008); MArch, University of Toronto (2014); MDes Energy & Environments, Harvard University (2019)

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Research interests and specialization:

Construction ecology
Architecture & design theory
Ecological economics
Environmental assessment & development
Uneven social & ecological exchange

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Thesis title:听Forest-Building: a new conceptual model for the integrated design of forests and building

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Supervisor:听Michael Jemtrud

Email:听peter.osborne [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Elissavet Pertigkiozoglou

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MArch, National Technical University of Athens (2016); MDes Technology, Harvard Graduate School of Design (2018)

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Research interests and specialization:

History of Architectural Practice
History of Computing and Information Technologies
Science and Technology Studies
Digital Humanities
Work Relationships, Labour, Collaboration

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Thesis title:听Programmed Collaboration: Work Relationships in Software for Building Design, 1970-2010

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Supervisor: Theodora Vardouli

Email:听eliza.pertigkiozoglou [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Brandon Poole

BFA, Visual Art, University of Victoria (2017); MVS, Studio, University of Toronto (2020)

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Research interests and specializations:

Science and Technology Studies
History and Theory of Architecture
Media Theory
Corporate Architecture
History and Theory of Simulation

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Thesis title: Human-in-the-Loop: Architecture, Simulation, and the Image

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Supervisor: Theodora Vardouli

Email: brandon.poole [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Daniel Rondinel

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B.Arch. Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima (2004); M.Arch. Cornell University (2011)

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Research interests and specializations:

Urban metabolism & the city as a system听
Entropy in architecture and urban development.听听
Thermodynamics within the city听

Sustainable design听& ecology听
Social and environmental impacts of the built environment

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Thesis title (provisional):听An urban metabolism study from a thermodynamic perspective. 2050 low entropy cities.

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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)

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Research interests and specializations:

City Novels
Imaginary Cities
Architecture and Literature
Fictive Space
Middle Eastern Art and Architecture Studies
Narrative Architecture

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Thesis title:听The Depiction of a 鈥楥ity鈥� as a 鈥楶rotagonist鈥� in the Middle Eastern City Novels

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Supervisors: Alberto P茅rez-G贸mez/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), 苹果淫院 (2016)

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Research Interests and Specializations:

Nineteenth-century architecture and urban atmospheres in London
Gender, sexuality, and space
Late-Victorian women鈥檚 press and magazines
Public space and social agency

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Thesis title: Women writers in the metropolis: Urban atmospheres in late-Victorian London

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Supervisor: Martin Bressani

Email: merve.talu [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Beatriz Takahashi

Supervisor: Ipek T眉reli

Email: beatriz.takahashi [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Giacomo Valzania

M.Arch, University of Bologna (2013); M.Arch. Post-prof. Urban Design and Housing, 苹果淫院 (2017)

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Research interests and specializations:

Suburban landscapes
Collectivehousing
Urban space and right to the city
Immigration
Postmodernity

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Thesis title: Of homes, domains, and boundaries : Immigration and the change of Toronto鈥檚 postwar听suburbs since 1980.

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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)

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Research interests and specializations:

West coast and Canadian architectural history
Collaborative and professional architectural networks
Art history

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Thesis title (provisional):听Collaboration in the Offices of Erickson/Massey and Arthur Erickson Architects, 1963-1992

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Supervisors: Annmarie Adams/David Theodore

Email:听katrin.zavgorodny-freedman [at] mail.mcgill.ca

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