Scholars and students in residence at the Study Centre offer informal presentations of their research in progress. Presentations take place in the Shaughnessy House unless otherwise indicated.

5 June 2009, 12 pm
The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, New York (1967-1984). A Cultural Project in Architecture
Kim Förster, Ph.D. Candidate, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ)
Theological Metaphors in “Architectura Civil Recta Y Oblicua” – An Architectural Treatise by Juan Caramuel De Lobkowitz
Maria Elisa Navarro Morales, Ph.D. Candidate, McGill University

19 June 2009, 12 pm
Parks of Culture and Rest and the Formation of the Discipline of Landscape Architecture in the Soviet Union (1927-1941)
Alla Vronskaya, Ph.D. Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Devising Motion: Domenico Fontana’s Project for Raising the Vatican Obelisk
Lori Riva, Ph.D. Candidate, McGill University

26 June 2009, 12 pm
When Europe Re-Built the Neighbourhood: City Beautiful, the Settlement Movement, and the Emergence of American Internationalism, 1890-1920
Maureen Mahoney, Ph.D. Candidate, Carleton University
A Fertile Wilderness: The CPR Ready-Made Farms, 1909-1919
Elsa Lam, Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia University

3 July 2009, 12 pm
Hygiene and Health in Modern Urban Planning – The Sanatorium and its Role within the Modernist Movement
Eva Eylers, Ph.D. Candidate, Architectural Association, London

17 July 2009, 11 am, Alcan Wing
Time Schedules
2009 Power Corporation of Canada Award, Mid-term Review
Martin Hogue, University of Toronto
Michael Lis, University of British Columbia
Samantha Lynch, University of Manitoba

24 July 2009, 12 pm
Things and (not) Words: Early Modern Perceptions of Architecture
Anne Hultzsch, Ph.D. Candidate, Bartlett School of Architecture, London
Hopes in Design: Tomas Maldonado’s “Scientific Operationalism” and the Architectural Culture of the Postwar Years
Nicola Pezolet, Ph.D. Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

31 July 2009, 12 pm
Architecture, History and the City: Italo-Iberian Exchanges in Architecture Culture 1960s-1970s
Marta Caldeira, Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia University

7 August 2009, 12 pm
Agriculture: Or How Environment Became a Category of Architectural Thought
Shiben Banerji, Ph.D. Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Augmented Space: The Logics and “Technologics” of Space in Installation Art and Augmented Reality
Horea Avram, Ph.D. Candidate, McGill University

14 August 2009, 12 pm
Nowhere Factory: the Syrian Euphrates Dam Project, 1955-1975
Anneka Lenssen, Ph.D. Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alvin Boyarsky Presents Chicago à la carte
Irene Sunwoo, Ph.D. Candidate, Princeton University

26 August 2009, 12 pm
A Redefinition of the Role of Ornament in French Rococo Art and Contemporary Visual Culture: From the Horrifyingly Beautiful to the Beauty of Horror
Julie Boivin, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Toronto
Uncertain Assemblies: Man and His Health at Expo 67
Thomas Strickland, Ph.D. Candidate, McGill University

27 August 2009, 6 pm
Time Schedules
2009 Power Corporation of Canada Award, Final Presentation
Martin Hogue, University of Toronto
Michael Lis, University of British Columbia
Samantha Lynch, University of Manitoba

11 September 2009, 2 to 4 pm
Roundtable discussion on Cedric Price
Samantha Hardingham, Architectural Association, and Marco Frascari, Carleton University

15 September from 4 to 6 pm
Presentation on James Stirling and Liverpool
Brian Hatton, Architectural Association

22 September 2009, 12 to 2 pm
Eugène Piot’s L’Italie monumentale
Tiziana Serena, Università degli Studi di Firenze

25 September 2009, 12 pm
Bubbles: An Issue of Cabinet
Sina Najafi, Editor in Chief and Co-Founder, Cabinet Magazine

8 October 2009, 1 pm
Mannerism’s Restless Eye
Marco Frascari, Carleton University, and Brian Hatton, Architectural Association

19 November 2009, 12:30 pm
Buchanan & After. Theories and Metaphor in Urban Planning, 1950/70
Luca Velo, Ph.D. Candidate, Università IUAV di Venezia

27 November 2009, 12 pm
Organizing Death: the “366 graves cemetery” by Ferdinando Fuga
Francesca Fagnano, Ph.D. Candidate, Università IUAV di Venezia
“Tribute of Yu”: Historical Dimensions of Space and Maps in Pre-modern China
Fan Lin, Ph.D. Candidate, McGill University