Research Grants are developed in partnership with doctoral programs in the history of art and architecture at selected universities in Canada, the United States, and Europe to facilitate access for PhD students to the CCA Collection during residencies of one to four months at the Study Centre.
TD Financial Bank Group-CCA Collection Research Grants
TD Financial Bank Group-CCA Collection Research Grants are developed in partnership with doctoral (Ph.D.) programs in the history of art and architecture of universities in Canada.
Participating universities:
Carleton University
Concordia University
McGill University
Queen’s University
Ryerson University
Université Laval
University of Toronto
University of British Columbia
University of Victoria
Université de Montréal
Please contact your university for further information about application, eligibility, and deadlines.
CCA Collection Research Grants
CCA Collection Research Grants are developed in partnership with selected doctoral (PhD) programs in the history of art and architecture of universities in the United States and Europe.
Emanuel de Sousa, Architectural Association, London
Topic: Heterotopia: Reframing Spatial Practices and Boundaries, c1960-Present
(Advisor: Professor Marina Lathouri) 25 May to 25 June 2010
Sabine von Fischer, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Topic: The Architecture of Everyday Acoustics – Sound Spaces and Atmospheres in the Nexus of Cultural and Technological Change 1930-1976
(Advisor: Professor Laurent Stalder) 16 June to 30 July 2010
Ana Maria León, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Topic: Marina Waisman and the dilemmas of Latin American Architectural Historiography
(Advisor: Professor Mark Jarzombek) 25 June to 23 July 2010
Léa-Catherine Szacka, The Bartlett School of Architecture, London
Topic: Exhibiting the Post-Modern: Three Narratives for a History of the 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale
(Advisors: Professors Adrian Forty and Iain Borden) 28 June to 23 July 2010
S. Faisal Hassan, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Topic: Detours in American Art & Architecture (1970-1989)
(Advisors: Professors Mark Jarzombek and Caroline Jones) 2 to 30 July 2010
Molly Wright Steenson, School of Architecture, Princeton University
Topic: Artificial Intelligence, Architectural Intelligence: The Computer in Architecture, 1960–80
(Advisor: Professor M. Christine Boyer) 2 to 30 July 2010
Véronique Patteeuw, Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris
Topic: Architecture, Écriture et Critique dans les années '60 et '70. Les petites revues comme agent provocateur
(Advisor: Professor Dominique Rouillard) 2 July to 31 August 2010
Catherine Bonier, University of Pennsylvania
Topic: The Modern City: Water, Urban Form, and Civic Health
(Advisor: Professor David Leatherbarrow) 5 July to 6 August 2010
Rebecca Uchill, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Topic: Building(s) for the Future: Museums as Platforms for Contemporary Programs
(Advisor: Professor Caroline Jones) 12 July to 12 August 2010
Ginger Nolan, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University
Topic: The Work of Dreams: A History of Imagination and Its Productivities, Germany and the U.S. 1848-2000
(Advisors: Professors Felicity Scott and Reinhold Martin) 19 July to 1 September 2010
Joseph Bedford, School of Architecture, Princeton University
Topic: Architectural Reflections of Political Thought: Between James Stirling's Liberalism and Aldo Rossi's Marxism
2 to 31 August 2010
Igor Demchenko, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Topic: The Response of Soviet Restorers to the Venice Charter: Theory against Practice
(Advisor: Professor Nasser Rabbat) 2 to 31 August 2010
Joy Knoblauch, School of Architecture, Princeton University
Topic: Institutional Domestic Environments and the Human Sciences (1963-1974)
(Advisor: Professor M. Christine Boyer) 2 to 31 August 2010
Alexia De Steffani, Università IUAV di Venezia
Topic: The Ordinariness of Exceptionality. Mega Events: from Extraordinary Town Planning Policies to Ordinary Management Practices in the Construction of the Contemporary City. An Italian Case Study: Turin from “Italia ’61” to the 150th Anniversary of Italian Unity
(Advisor: Professor Bernardo Secchi) 9 August to 1 October 2010
Brad Walters, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University
Topic: The Journeys of the Atelier des Bâtisseurs, 1946-1966
(Advisor: Professor Mary McLeod) 1 September to 29 October 2010
Laure Brayer, Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris
Topic: Dispositifs vidéographiques et paysage urbain
(Advisors: Professors Jean-Paul Thibaud and Nicolas Tixier) 1 September to 1 November 2010
Francesco Coppolecchia, Università IUAV di Venezia
Topic: Cardboard Architecture (1967-1979): The Process of Architectural Composition in the Cycle of Peter Eisenman's Houses
(Advisors: Professors Maurizio Meriggi and Guido Zuliani) 20 September to 20 October 2010
TD Financial Bank Group-CCA Collection Research Grant Recipients
Nuria Carton de Grammont, Concordia University
Topic: Architecture parasitaire et représentations territoriales la ville de Mexico : Contre-cartographies de la périphérie urbaine
(Advisor: Professor Cynthia Hammond) 30 April to 30 June 2010
Dwayne Avery, Department of Art History and Communications Studies, McGill University
Topic: Mapping the Socialist City in Krzysztof Kieslowski’s The Decalogue
(Advisor: Professor Will Straw) 1 to 30 June 2010
Victor Halim Nasr, Faculté de l’aménagement, Université de Montréal
Topic: Vers une approche de mise en valeur de la trace mémorielle dans les projets post-destruction. Étude de cas : Le projet du World Trade Center – New York
(Advisor: Professor Denis Bilodeau) 1 June to 30 September 2010
Jenni Pace Presnell, Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, University of British Columbia
Topic: The Banlieues Problem: Locating Housing for the Greatest Number in Architectural Practice and Public Discourse
(Advisor: Professor Rhodri Windsor Liscombe) 7 June to 3 September 2010
Zubin Singh, School of Architecture, McGill University
Topic: Image and Time: the Masques of John Hejduk
(Advisor: Professor Alberto Pérez-Gómez) 21 June to 20 August 2010
Anithe de Carvalho, Département d’histoire de l’art, Université du Québec à Montréal
Topic : Les pratiques participatives au Québec des années 1960 et 1970
(Advisor: Professor Jean-Philippe Uzel) 2 to 31 August 2010
Elizabeth Parke, Department of Art, University of Toronto
Topic: Mapping Diplomacy: Beijing's Legation Quarter
(Advisor: Professor Jennifer Purtle) 1 to 29 October 2010
Paul Holmquist, School of Architecture, McGill University
Topic: Ledoux in the Val d’Amour: Language and Institution in the Ideal City of Chaux
(Advisor: Professor Alberto Pérez-Gómez) 1 October to 30 November 2010
Tai van Toorn, Department of Art History and Communications Studies, McGill University
Topic: Site-Seeing: Canadian Land Art, 1969-1979
(Advisor: Professor Christine Ross) 1 October to 30 November 2010
CCA Collection Research Grant Recipients
Kim Förster, Department of Architecture, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Topic: The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, New York (1967-1984). A Cultural Project in Architecture
(Advisor: Professor Laurent Stalder) 19 February to 18 June 2009
Eva Eylers, Architectural Association, London
Topic: Hygiene and Health in Modern Urban Planning - The Sanatorium and its Role within the Modernist Movement
(Advisor: Professor Marina Lathouri) 19 May to 17 July 2009
Elsa Lam, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University
Topic: Wilderness Nation: Building Canada’s Railway Landscapes, 1884-1929
(Advisor: Professor Kenneth Frampton) 1 June to 28 August 2009
Alla G. Vronskaya, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Topic: Nature Industrialized: Plant Forms in the Photography of Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1933)
(Advisor: Professor Arindam Dutta) 1 June to 3 July 2009
Anne Hultzsch, The Bartlett School of Architecture, London
Topic: Things and (not) Words: Early Modern Perceptions of Architecture
(Advisor: Professor Adrian Forty) 29 June to 24 July 2009
Marta Caldeira, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University
Topic: Italian Architectural Theory in the Iberian Architecture Culture of the 1960s-1970s
(Advisor: Professor Reinhold Martin) 2 to 31 July 2009
Nicola Pezolet, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Topic: Hopes in design: Tomas Maldonado’s “scientific operationalism” and the architectural culture of the postwar years
(Advisors: Professors Caroline A. Jones and Mark Jarzombek) 2 to 31 July 2009
Shiben Banerji, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Topic: Agriculture: Or How Environment Became a Category of Architectural Thought
(Advisor: Professor Arindam Dutta) 27 July to 28 August 2009
Irene Sunwoo, School of Architecture, Princeton University
Topic: Alvin Boyarsky's Well-Laid Table: Experiments in Architectural Pedagogy
(Advisors: Professors Spyros Papapetros and Beatriz Colomina) 27 July to 28 August 2009
Anneka Lenssen, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Topic: Monumental Movements: Cold War Infrastructure, Architectural Representation, and Global Capital in Syria c. 1970
(Advisor: Professor Nasser Rabbat) 28 July to 28 August 2009
Diana Kurkovsky, School of Architecture, Princeton University
Topic: CyberSovietica. Cybernetics, City Building, and Systems of Soviet Living, 1954-1986
(Advisor: Professor Christine Boyer) 1 September to 30 September 2009
Luca Velo, Università IUAV di Venezia
Topic: Urban Metaphors for Infrastructures Planning
(Advisors: Professors Bernardo Secchi and Paola Viganò) 13 October to 14 December 2009
Francesca Fagnano, Università IUAV di Venezia
Topic: Le cimetière des 366 Fosses de Ferdinando Fuga
(Advisor: Antonella Gallo) 21 October to 18 December 2009
TD Financial Bank Group-CCA Collection Research Grant Recipients
Maria Elisa Navarro Morales, School of Architecture, McGill University
Topic: Theological Metaphors in "Architectura Civil Recta Y Oblicua" - An Architectural Treatise by Juan Caramuel De Lobkowitz
(Advisor: Professor Alberto Pérez-Gómez) 14 April to 15 May 2009
Imen Ben Jemia, Faculté d’aménagement, Université de Montréal
Topic: Construire l’identité de la ville : patrimoine et architecture contemporaine
(Advisor: Professor Jacques Lachapelle) 20 April to 21 August 2009
Lori Riva, School of Architecture, McGill University
Topic: Domenico Fontana’s Machine Stripped Bare: The Raising of the Vatican Obelisk, 1586
(Advisor: Professor Alberto Pérez-Gómez) 11 May to 12 June 2009
Maureen Mahoney, Department of History, Carleton University
Topic: When Europe Re-Built the Neighbourhood: City Beautiful, the Settlement Movement, and the Emergence of American Internationalism, 1890-1920
(Advisor: Professor Andrew M. Johnston) 1 June to 30 June 2009
Nadia Kurd, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University
Topic: Locations of Islamic Architecture
(Advisor: Professor Charmaine Nelson) 2 July to 31 August 2009
Julie Boivin, Department of Art, University of Toronto
Topic: Ornament in Context: an Investigation of Primary Sources on French Rococo Interiors
(Advisor: Professor Mark Cheetham) 6 July to 4 September 2009
Horea Avram, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University
Topic: Augmented Space: The Logics and "Technologics" of Space in Installation Art and Augmented Reality
(Advisor: Professor Christine Ross) 20 July to 21 August 2009
Thomas Strickland, School of Architecture, McGill University
Topic: Open House: Megastructures, Medicine and the Future of Canadian Health Care Architecture
(Advisor: Professor Annmarie Adams) 3 August to 2 October 2009
Fan Lin, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University
Topic: From the Tribute System to A Nation-State: A Study on Historical Geography through Maps on "The Tribute of Yu" in Late Imperial and Republican China (1520-1937)
(Advisor: Professors Hajime Nakatani and Robin Yates) 2 November to 30 November 2009
Eduardo Ralickas, Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études cinématographiques, Université de Montréal
Topic: Les entorses pragmatiques de la perspective
(Advisor: Johanne Lamoureux) 1 September to 31 December 2009
CCA Collection Research Grant Recipients
Ralph Ghoche, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University
Topic: Architecture, Ornament and the Crisis of Symbolic Representation in Second Empire France : Ruprich-Robert and the Flore Ornementale
(Advisor: Professor Mary Mcleod) 5 May to 4 July 2008
Charles Davis, Department of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania
Topic: The Alpine Heights of Viollet-le-Duc, Villa la Vedette (1875)
(Advisor: Professor Detlef Mertins) 2 June to 29 August 2008
Anthony Fontenot, School of Architecture, Princeton University
Topic: Non-Design, Architecture and the American City, 1965-1972
(Advisor: Professor Christine Boyer) 2 June to 30 June 2008
Tanja Herdt, Department of Architecture, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Topic: The City and the Architecture of Change. The Work of Cedric Price and the Concept of Micropolitics in the Architecture of the 1960s and 1970s
(Advisor: Professor Marc Angelil) 9 June to 26 September 2008
Andrew Manson, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
Topic: Architecture, Archaeology and Urbanism in Roma Mussolinea: The Via dell'Impero and the Palazzo Littorio Competition
(Advisor: Professor Mary Mcleod) 23 June to 18 July 2008
Iris Moon, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Topic: Fashioning Furnishings: Percier and Fontaine’s Recueil des décorations intérieures
(Advisor: Professor Mark Jarzombek) 2 July to 31 July 2008
TD Financial Bank Group-CCA Collection Research Grant Recipients
Negin Djavaherian, School of Architecture, McGill University
Topic: From Twentieth Century Modern Theatre to Contemporary Architectural Discourse
(Advisor: Professor Alberto Pérez-Gómez) 28 April to 28 June 2008
Izabel Amaral, Faculté de l’aménagement, Université de Montréal
Topic: Le Nord et le Sud à l’Est : la rencontre des modernités canadienne et brésilienne à l’expo d’Osaka (1970)
(Advisor: Professor Jean-Pierre Chupin) 12 May to 12 September 2008
Geoffrey Carr, Department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory, University of British Columbia
Topic: Building/Reconciliation: Testing the Limits of Commemorative Representation
(Advisor: Professor Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe) 2 May to 30 June 2008
Jason Crow, School of Architecture, McGill University
Topic: The Matter of Light and the Being of Stone
(Advisor: Professor Alberto Pérez-Gómez) 2 June to 31 July 2008
Claudette Lauzon, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University
Topic: Precarious Occupations: The Fragile Figure of Home in Contemporary Art
(Advisor: Professor Christine Ross) 2 June to 29 August 2008
Elena Napolitano, Department of Art, University of Toronto
Topic: Come Una Cittadella’: Urban Strategy and the Vision of French Nationhood in Rome, 1660-1700
(Advisor: Professor Evonne Levy) 2 July to 29 August 2008
Victoria Sheridan, Department of History of Art, University of Toronto
Topic: Venetian Baroque Ornament
(Advisor: Professor Philip Sohm) 2 July to 2 September 2008
Gyewon Kim, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University
Topic: The Contour of Empire: Geographies, Representations and National Identities in Japan and Korea, 1880-1930
(Advisor: Professor Hajime Nakatani) 25 August to 19 September 2008
CCA Collection Research Grant Recipients
Craig Buckley, Princeton University School of Architecture
Topic: Beyond the Graphic: Architectural Montage in the1960s and 1970s
(Advisor: Professor Beatriz Colomina) 15 March to 16 April 2007
Lucia Allais, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Topic: Will to War, Will to Art: Cultural Internationalism and the Modernist Aesthetics of Monuments
(Advisor: Professor Mark Jarzombek) 4 June to 29 June 2007
Lydia Kallipoliti, Princeton University School of Architecture
Topic: Mission Galactic Household: The Resurgence of Cosmological Imagination in the Architecture of the 1960s
(Advisor: Professor Beatriz Colomina) 5 June to 29 June 2007
Richard Anderson, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
Topic: Industries of Realism: History, Theory, and Technology in Soviet Architecture, 1932-1941
(Advisor: Professor Barry Bergdoll) 16 July to 17 August 2007
Leonardo Díaz-Borioli, Princeton University School of Architecture
Topic: Luis Barragán: Poetics and Politics of an Other Modernity
(Advisor: Professor Beatriz Colomina) 20 July to 20 August 2007
Urtzi Grau, Princeton University School of Architecture
Topic: Replica!
(Advisor: Professor Beatriz Colomina) 1 to 31 August 2007
Stephanie Tuerk, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Topic: Disciplinary Revolutions: French Architectural Institutions 1789 - 1819
(Advisor: Professor Arindam Datta) 1 to 31 August 2007
Inderbir Singh Riar, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University
Topic: "The Masque of the Future": Expo 67, the Megastructure and the Architecture of Late Modernity
(Advisors: Professors Kenneth Frampton and Reinhold Martin) 1 August to 30 November 2007
TD Financial Bank Group-CCA Collection Research Grant Recipients
Alma Mikulinsky, Graduate Department of History of Art, University of Toronto
Topic: Failed Monumentality and the Private Life of Picasso's Sculptures
(Advisor: Professor Christy Anderson) 9 January to 9 March 2007
Inhye Kang, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University
Topic: Creating Empire: The Representation of the Colonies at Expositions in Pre-War Japan
(Advisor: Professor Hajime Nakatani) 2 April to 1 May 2007
Nicholas Roquet, School of Architecture, McGill University
Topic: Life in Costume: the Architectural Fictions and Anachronisms of William Burges
(Advisor: Professor Martin Bressani) 23 April to 22 June 2007
Leila Farah, School of Architecture, McGill University
Topic: Sustaining a Settlement: Foodways and Food Paths in Pre-industrial Montréal
(Advisor: Professor Vikram Bhatt) 22 May to 23 July 2007
Ger Zielinski, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University
Topic: Furtive Glances: On the Emergence of the Queer Film Festival in Time and Place
(Advisor: Professor William Straw) 1 June to 2 July 2007
Deborah J. Watt, School of Architecture, University of British Columbia
Topic: Le Corbusier and the Politics of Post-Coloniality
(Advisor: Professor Sherry McKay) 1 June to 31 August 2007
Nancy Cuthbert, Department of History in Art, University of Victoria
Topic: The Fountain Sculptures of George Tsutakawa: Shaping Metal, Water, and Urban Public Space
(Advisor: Professor Christopher Thomas) 26 June to 26 August 2007
Dana Broadbent, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University
Topic: An Architecture of Disappearance: Resistance and Remembrance in Contemporary Art and Architecture
(Advisor: Professor Christine Ross) 3 July to 4 September 2007
Carole Lévesque, Faculté de l'Aménagement, Université de Montréal
Topic: Dispositifs architecturaux et exploration spatiale de la ville : le cas de l’installation architecturale
(Advisor: Professor Georges Adamczyk) 3 July to 28 September 2007
Carolina Mangone, Graduate Department of Art History, University of Toronto
Topic: Bernini's Imitatio Buonarroti at St. Peter's
(Advisor: Professor Evonne Levy) 3 July to 4 September 2007
Anja Borck, Art History Department, Concordia University
Topic: More than one Life: Industrial and Commercial Heritage Architecture in Quebec and Germany with Change in Function
(Advisor: Professor Jean Belisle) 4 September to 2 November 2007
Michael J. Windover, Department of Art History, University of British Columbia
Topic: Fashioning the Modern Citizen: Art Deco and the Spatial Economies of Pleasure
(Advisor: Professor Rhodri Windsor Liscombe) 9 October to 9 November 2007
CCA Collection Research Grant Recipients
Ila Sheren, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Topic: The Crystal Chain and German Expressionism
(Advisor: Professor Mark Jarzombek) 16 June to 18 August 2006
Meredith TenHoor, Princeton University School of Architecture
Topic: The Belly of the Suburbs : Food, Media, and Spatial Politics from Les Halles to Rungis
(Advisor: Professor Ed Eigen) 3 July to 31 July 2006
Yuthika Sharma, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
Topic: The Architecture of Reenactment: Felice Beato's 'Mutiny' Photographs, 1858-1860
(Advisor: Professor Vidya Dehejia) 31 July to 1 September 2006
Stephen Phillips, Princeton University School of Architecture
Topic: The Elastic Architecture of Motion Theater: Frederick Kiesler's Mobile Space Enclosures, 1924-1934
(Advisor: Professor Beatriz Colomina) 1 August to 1 September 2006
TD Financial Bank Group-CCA Collection Research Grant Recipients
Margo Beggs, Graduate Department of History of Art, University of Toronto
Topic: Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908): The 'Sister Arts', Modernity and the 'American Sculptress'
(Advisor: Professor Marc Gotlieb) 3 April to 31 May 2006
Luc Lévesque, Faculté d'aménagement, Université de Montréal
Topic: Invention et activation d'une paysagéité de l'interstitiel. Contribution du discours architectural contemporain : le cas Peter D. Eisenman
(Advisor: Professor Alberto Pérez-Gómez) 4 April to 4 July 2009
Jasmine Rault, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University
Topic: Designing Domestic Space: New Angles on Gender and Sexuality in the Work of Eileen Gray
(Advisors: Professors Jonathan Sterne and Will Straw) 15 May to 14 July 2006
Alexis Desgagnés, Département d'histoire de l'art et d'études cinématographiques, Université de Montréal
Topic: Le pictural comme paradigme théorique et pratique de l’architecture soviétique des années 1920
(Advisor: Professor Todd Porterfield) 1 June to 1 September 2006
Tsz Yan Ng, School of Architecture, McGill University
Topic: Architectural Project of 'Nation Building' -- Paris Exposition Universelle of 1867
(Advisor: Professor Alberto Pérez-Gómez) 17 July to 18 September 2006
Dominic Boulerice, Department of Art History & Communication Studies, McGill University
Topic: Géométrie de l'espace ou la voûte sur croisée d'ogives
(Advisors: Professors Hans Boker, Chantal Hardy, et Bronwen Wilson) 1 August to 2 October 2006
Rim Ben Fredj, Faculté d'aménagement, Université de Montréal
Topic: Le déplacement de concepts en architecture : histoire et paradoxes théoriques d'une notion post-moderne [analyse transversale des prix et concours de la fondation Aga Khan entre 1980 et 2004]
(Advisor: Professor Jean-Pierre Chupin) 3 October to 3 November 2006