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Doctoral Research Residency Program
Primary research is a critical component of all doctoral theses. The CCA offers summer residencies ranging from four to six weeks to support PhD students in pursuing archival research based in our Collection. While applicants apply with a clearly defined research topic that will benefit from engagement with the CCA Collection, we also see the Doctoral Research Residency Program (DRRP) as an opportunity to introduce a diverse array of approaches, geographies, and questions into the research we do here.
As part of the residency, the CCA organizes a one week seminar—a topical Toolkit for Today—that provides emerging scholars with new concepts, tools, and methods for their own research while also expanding on our current projects. Recent topics include Cross Wor(l)ds/Queer Wor(l)ds, Collectivity, Carbon Present, Legalities for Living, In the Planetary Field, and Archival Absencing. The DRRP seeks to balance independent time for writing, research, and reflection with a pedagogical program that introduces new questions, methods, and objects to the group of doctoral students.
Guidelines
We accept applications from within our network of affiliated doctoral programs (see below for full list of affiliated universities), as well as from PhD students from non-affiliated universities worldwide.
We particularly welcome applications from PhD students in the history and theory of architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism. While most participants are architectural historians and theorists, we also invite applications from doctoral students in media and communication studies, Indigenous studies, science and technology studies, and environmental studies, while being open to any disciplinary affiliation.
Research projects should relate either to the CCA Collection (archival holdings, prints and drawings, photography, library, artifacts, and ephemera) or to our main research themes (global histories and postcolonial perspectives, environmental histories, the digital, photography, history/historiography, among others).
Application
The call for applications is now closed. The new call will open in December 2025.
For questions regarding the program, please contact studium@cca.qc.ca.
For updates on the CCA research programs, please subscribe to the CCA newsletter.
Our network of affiliated institutions and programs includes:
Architectural Association School of Architecture
Brown University, Department of the History and Art of Architecture
Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP)
Cornell University, Department of Architecture
ETH Zurich, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (GTA)
Harvard University, Graduate School of Design (GSD)
Illinois Institute of Technology, College of Architecture
Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität München, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art
McGill University, Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture
Middle East Technical University, Graduate Program in Architectural History
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, School of Architecture
Princeton University, School of Architecture
The University of Hong Kong, Department of Architecture
TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment
Universidade de Coimbra, Department of Architecture
University College of London, The Bartlett School of Architecture
University of California, Los Angeles, Architecture and Urban Design
University of Pennsylvania, Weitzmann School of Design
University of Sydney, School of Architecture
University of Toronto, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
We have recently hosted doctoral students from non-affiliated institutions and programs including:
Carleton University, Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism
Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT University), Faculty of Architecture
Concordia University, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture
Concordia University, Department of Art History
Concordia University, Department of Communications Studies
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Département d’architecture
Harvard University, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies
Ghent University, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning
Kyoto University, Graduate School of Engineering
McGill University, Department of Art History and Communication Studies
McGill University, Faculty of Law
New York University, Institute of Fine Arts
Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Institute of Architecture
Princeton University, Department of History
Technische Universität München, Chair of History of Architecture and Curatorial Practice
Universität der Künste Berlin, Institute for Architecture and Urban Planning, Chair for Digital and Experimental Design
Université de Montréal, Faculté de l’aménagement
Université du Québec à Montréal, Faculté des arts
Université libre de Bruxelles, Faculté d’architecture
Université Paris-Est, École nationale supérieure d’architecture de la ville & des territoires à Marne-la-Vallée
Université Paris Nanterre, Lettres, langues, et spectacles
University of Alberta, English and Film Studies
University of Basel, Department of Social Studies
University of Cambridge, Department of Architecture
University of Kansas, School of Architecture and Design
University of Melbourne, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
University of Rome Tor Vergata
University of Technology Sydney, School of Architecture
University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture, Architectural History
University of Venice (IUAV), Cultures of the Project Department
2025 Doctoral Research Residency Program
Igor Bloch
Ghent University, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning
“‘Self-build?’ Identifying Other Construction-Site Actors in Late Colonial Africa”
Ben Clark
Université libre de Bruxelles, Faculté d’architecture
“Intersecting Archives: A Comparative Exploration of Institut für Tropenbau and CERF’s Development-Oriented Architectural Knowledge”
Jonas Danen
Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität München, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society
“The New World as Garden: Harvesting the Dutch Hudson Valley, 1609-1664”
Seth Dias
University of Sydney, School of Architecture
“Global Perspectives Study—Indigeneity, Protest, and the Urban Contest”
Basak Eren
University of Pennsylvania, Weitzmann School of Design
“Migrant Architects and Migrant Archives: Spiro Kostof’s Library”
Katie Filek
University of Toronto, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
“Brussels, Kinshasa, Edmonton: Postwar Networks of Material Expertise”
Fabrizio Furiassi
University of Basel, Department of Social Studies
“Sicilian Concrete: Material Agency in Mafia Urban Development, 1945–1992”
Dimitris Hartonas
Princeton University, School of Architecture
“Photographic Accretions of Aqueous Mobilities”
Robin Hueppe
ETH Zurich, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture
“Let the Archive Speak: On Land and Absence”
Emma Larcelet
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Département d’architecture
“Drawing Trajectories: Tracing France and Quebec Pioneering Experiments in Computer Visualization”
Adam Lubitz
University of California, Los Angeles, Architecture and Urban Design
“Architectures of Reparation: Park Planned Homes and Black Altadena”
Piergianna Mazzocca
Cornell University, Department of Architecture
“Biopolitics of Oil: Architectural Histories of Extraction and Eradication in the Americas, 1910–1940”
Soscha Monteiro de Jesus
TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment
“Sustainability Before Sustainabilty: Habitat I and the Marine Gardens”
Miguel Borges de Azevedo Roque
University of Coimbra, Department of Architecture
“On the Trails of Modernity”
Disha Singh
Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT University), Faculty of Architecture
“Architectural Production through the Lens of Post-colonial Narratives—An Examination of Negotiations in the Educational Institutions in Chandigarh”
Ushma Thakrar
Carleton University, Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism
“Photographic Extractions: The Material Ecology of Colonial Image-Making in 19th Century India”
Nina Tory-Henderson
University of Melbourne, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
“A tale of repair in two cities: urban activism in Montreal & Melbourne, 1970s–80s”
Giuditta Trani
University of Venice (IUAV), Cultures of the Project Department
“Sense of the City and Other Archives. Towards a Sound Ecology in Architecture”
Ruoqi Yu
The University of Hong Kong, Department of Architecture
“The Transition of Bunds: Chinese Diaspora, Colonial Hubs, and Architectural Networks”
Katrin Zavgorodny-Freedman
McGill University, Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture
“OffSite: Spatial Distributions of International Project Work at Erickson/Massey and Arthur Erickson Architects, 1963–1992”
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