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Current PhD students


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

Thesis title:Home as Archive: Postcolonial Housing after the Partition of British India (1947-1980)

Supervisor: Samia Henni

Email: mehwish.abid [at] mail.mcgill.ca


Christopher Clarke

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Supervisor: Annmarie Adams

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


Arièle Dionne-Krosnick

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

Research interests and specializations:

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

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

Supervisor: Ipek Türeli

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


Anastasia Jaffray

Bachelor of Architectural Studies, Honours Co-op, University of Waterloo (2021); M.Arch, ۲ݮƵ University (2024)

Research interests and specializations:

  • Medical architecture
  • Architectural practice and research
  • Collaboration
  • Travel
  • Landscape architecture

Thesis title:Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Research, Practice, and Travel as Collaborative Acts (1975-2016)

Supervisor: Annmarie Adams

Email:anastasia.jaffray [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):More to the Design Than Just Architecture”: Practices, Philosophies, and Architectures of Care, 1960-1995

Supervisor: Annmarie Adams

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


Destiny Kirumira

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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

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B.Sc.(Arch.) Université de Montréal (2018); M.Arch. ۲ݮƵ 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


Christos Montsenigos

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

Research interests and specialization:

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

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

Supervisor: Martin Bressani

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


Peter Osborne

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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


Eyup Ozkan

Supervisor: Ipek Türeli

Email:eyup.ozkan [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)

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


Brandon Poole

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

Research interests and specializations:

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

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

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)

Research interests and specializations:

  • Urban metabolism & the city as a system

  • Entropy in architecture and urban development.

  • Thermodynamics within the city

  • Sustainable design& ecology

  • 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


Chinmay Satbhai

Bachelor of Architecture (University of Pune), Master of Urban and Regional Planning (SPA, Bhopal)

Research interests and specializations:

  • Habitat/ Residential Planning and Design
  • Affordable Housing, Sustainable Development
  • Circularity in Built Environment
  • Land Use Planning
  • Urban Regulations
  • Real Estate Markets

Thesis title: Promoting Circular Practices in Affordable Housing: A Sustainability Perspective (with an empirical focus on Pune City)

Supervisor: Avi Friedman and Naomi Keena

Email: chinmay.satbhai [at] mail.mcgill.ca


Beatriz Takahashi

B.Arch. Sao Paulo State University (2017); MA Art History, Heritage, and Visual Culture, University of Porto (2019)

Research Interests and Specializations:

- Brazilian modernist architecture

- Intersections of labor, race, and gender

- Decolonial thought

- Critical race studies

- Visual culture

Thesis title:Laborers: Brasilia Seen from the Ground (1956-1960)

Supervisor: Ipek Türeli

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


Erica Vinson

Supervisor: Annmarie Adams

Email: erica.vinson [at] mail.mcgill.ca


Katrin Zavgorodny-Freedman

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

Supervisors: Annmarie Adams/David Theodore

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


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