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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 on 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—which provides emerging scholars with new concepts, tools, and methods for their own research while also expanding on our current projects. Recent topics include Collectivity, Carbon Present, Legalities for Living, In the Planetary Field, Archival Absencing, Activisms, and Keywords for the Environment. The DRRP seeks to balance out 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 international network of affiliated doctoral programs (see below for full list of affiliated universities), as well as PhD students from Canadian universities and from non-affiliated universities worldwide.
We particularly welcome applications from PhD students in the history and theory of architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism. While the majority of 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 (e.g. global histories and postcolonial perspectives, environmental histories, the digital, photography, and history/historiography).
Application
Click here for full details on the application process for PhD students from within our international network (see below for full list of affiliated universities and programs).
Click here for full details on the application process for PhD students from Canadian universities.
Click here for full details on the application process for PhD students from non-Canadian and non-affiliated universities.
Deadline to submit applications: 19 February 2024
We strongly encourage doctoral students whose projects will be based on recent acquisitions to check and confirm availability with our Reference team at ref@cca.qc.ca before submitting their project proposals.
The results of the selection process will be communicated in March 2024.
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 international network of affiliated institutions and programs includes:
Architectural Association School of Architecture
University College of London, The Bartlett School of Architecture
Brown University, Department of the History of Art and Architecture
University of California, Los Angeles, Architecture and Urban Design
Universidade de Coimbra, Department of Architecture
Columbia University, GSAPP
Cornell University, Department of Architecture
TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment
ETH Zurich, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (GTA)
Harvard University, GSD
The University of Hong Kong, Department of Architecture
Illinois Institute of Technology, College of Architecture
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art program
Middle East Technical University, Graduate Program in Architectural History
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Architecture
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, School of Architecture
Princeton University, School of Architecture
Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität München, Rachel Carson Center
Southeast University, Nanjing, School of Architecture
University of Sydney, School of Architecture
We have recently hosted doctoral students from Canadian and non-affiliated institutions and programs including:
University of Alberta, Department of English and Film Studies
Universität der Künste Berlin, Institute for Architecture and Urban Planning, Chair for Digital and Experimental Design
University of Cambridge, Department of Architecture
Carleton University, Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism
Concordia University, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture
Concordia University, Department of Art History
Concordia University, Department of Communications Studies
Harvard University, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies
University of Kansas, School of Architecture and Design
University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Architecture et sciences de la ville
McGill University, Department of Art History and Communication Studies
McGill University, Faculty of Law
McGill University, Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture
Princeton University, Department of History
Université de Montréal, Faculté de l’aménagement
Technische Universität München, Chair of History of Architecture and Curatorial Practice
Université du Québec à Montréal, Faculté des arts
New York University, Institute of Fine Arts
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 Toronto, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design
University of Technology Sydney, School of Architecture
University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture, Architectural History
2023 Doctoral Research Residency Program
Alejandro Saldana Perales
Illinois Institute of Technology, College of Architecture
“Parks and Urban Development: Framing the architectural strategies of park design & assessment as tools for the development of the North American urban landscape through seven (7) case-studies”
Anna Renken
University of Toronto, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
“Design with Environmental Systems: Experiments in Ecological Building, c.1970-1990”
Ariel Florencia Richards
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, School of Architecture
“Huecos, Making holes as a way of experiencing mourning in space: the work of Matta-Clark”
Chenchen Yan
Princeton University, School of Architecture
“Felice Beato and the Militarized Photography of Chinese Architecture”
Duy Mac
University College of London, The Bartlett School of Architecture
“On the Idea of the European Union in Asia: Arata Isozaki’s Mirage City Project at the Intersection of Digital Design and Political Philosophy”
Eun-Jeong Kim
Cornell University, Department of Architecture
“Architecture of Foreign Aid and Expertise on Unknown Lands”
Inês Nunes
Universidade de Coimbra, Department of Architecture
“Unveiling Jane Drew’s Legacy in Chandigarh: Insights from Pierre Jeanneret and Aditya Prakash’s Archives”
Justine Holzman
Princeton University, Department of History of Science
“International Science and the Igloolik Laboratory in the Canadian High Arctic”
Laura Pannekoek
Concordia University, Department of Communications Studies
“Scoping Out the Frontier: Land Surveying as Territorial Mediation”
Lu Zhang
The University of Hong Kong, Department of Architecture
“Reading Marginalized Images: Women Labor and Urban China in Early Chinese Photography”
Melanie Ball
University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture, Architectural History
“Between Crisis and Experiment: Housing as Pedagogy at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies c.1972”
Romain David
Harvard University, Graduate School of Design
“The Universal OMA: Immaterial Labour and the Corporate Imagination”
Sophia Higgerson
Brown University, Department of the History of Art and Architecture
“Alpine Imaginaries: Organicism, Authenticity, and Modern Architecture in the Alps”
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