Mehwish Abid
B. Arch (COMSATS University Islamabad, 2010), Masters of Arts (Architecture), (University of Liverpool, 2012).
Research interests and specializations:
- Postcolonial / Post-conflict cities and housing
- Decolonial Architecture
- Material Culture
- Archival and collective memory
- Muslim Home
- Gender, Space and belonging
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Thesis title:听Home as Archive: Postcolonial Housing after the Partition of British India (1947-1980)
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Supervisor: Samia Henni
Email: mehwish.abid [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Christopher Clarke
Supervisor: Annmarie Adams
Email: christopher.clarke2 [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Ari猫le Dionne-Krosnick
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
Anastasia Jaffray
Bachelor of Architectural Studies, Honours Co-op, University of Waterloo (2021); M.Arch, 91社区 (2024)
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Research interests and specializations:
- Medical architecture
- Architectural practice and research
- Collaboration
- Travel
- Landscape architecture
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Thesis title:听Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Research, Practice, and Travel as Collaborative Acts (1975-2016)
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Supervisor: Annmarie Adams
Email:听anastasia.jaffray [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
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
B.Sc.(Arch.) Universit茅 de Montr茅al (2018); M.Arch. 91社区 (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
Peter Osborne听
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
Eyup Ozkan
Supervisor: Ipek T眉reli
Email:听eyup.ozkan [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Elissavet Pertigkiozoglou
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
B.Arch. Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima (2004); M.Arch. Cornell University (2011)
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Research interests and specializations:
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Urban metabolism & the city as a system听
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Entropy in architecture and urban development.听听
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Thermodynamics within the city听
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Sustainable design听& ecology听
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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
Chinmay Satbhai
Bachelor of Architecture (University of Pune), Master of Urban and Regional Planning (SPA, Bhopal)
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Research interests and specializations:
- Habitat/ Residential Planning and Design听
- Affordable Housing, Sustainable Development
- Circularity in Built Environment听
- Land Use Planning
- Urban Regulations
- Real Estate Markets
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Thesis title: Promoting Circular Practices in Affordable Housing: A Sustainability Perspective (with an empirical focus on Pune City)
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Supervisor: Avi Friedman and Naomi Keena
Email: chinmay.satbhai [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Beatriz Takahashi
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B.Arch. Sao Paulo State University (2017); MA Art History, Heritage, and Visual Culture, University of Porto (2019)
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Research Interests and Specializations:
- Brazilian modernist architecture听
- Intersections of labor, race, and gender
- Decolonial thought
- Critical race studies听
- Visual culture听
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Thesis title:听Laborers: Brasilia Seen from the Ground (1956-1960)
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Supervisor: Ipek T眉reli
Email: beatriz.takahashi [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
