BArch (Toronto), MArch (McGill), MA (Harvard)
PhD Candidate,
Architecture (History and Theory)
Harvard University,
Graduate School of Design.
e. economid@fas.harvard.edu
PH.D. DISSERTATION in progress:
Negotiations of ‘Tradition’ and ‘Modernity’: Ernest Cormier "Architecte et Ingénieur-Constructeur" and the problem of representation.
Ph.D. Architecture (History and Theory), Harvard University, Graduate School of Design
(Anticipated 2014)
[Committee: Antoine Picon (Primary Advisor), Eve Blau, Alina Payne, Martin Bressani]
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• history and theory of 20th-century architecture, landscape architecture and urbanism in Europe and North America (with a particular interest in the interwar period and the migration and translation of discourses, formal influences and pedagogical models);
• ornament, style and the decorative arts, 19th and 20th centuries;
• scientific epistemology and technological innovation in the design fields;
• architectural historiography;
• architectural pedagogy.
• environmental history; conceptions and ideological mobilizations of ‘nature’;
• the spatiality of language; translation as creative act;
• art and nature in the Early Modern period, particularly with respect to artisanal and learned epistemologies, cultures of collecting, and scientific illustration.
CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA, and LECTURES
Presentation:
2012
2012
2012
2007
2006
2005
2004
2002
2001
2001
2000
1996
Organization:
2013
2008
2007
2007
2006
2004
2004
2003
2002
Presentation: “The Importance of Being Ernest: Cormier, Architecte et Ingénieur-Constructeur”, within the Seminar series of the Laboratoire d’Étude de l’Architecture Potentiel (L.E.A.P.), School of Architecture, Université de Montréal (December 3)
Paper: “Constructing Home, Constructing Self: The Maison Cormier and its ‘Architecte & Ingénieur-Constructeur Client’.” At the ArchTheo’12 Theory of Architecture conference with the theme “House and Home from a Theoretical Perspective,” Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, Turkey (October 31 – November 3)
Paper: ‘Mont Lumière’ and the mandates of cultural representation: l'Université de Montréal and Québec's intellectual "coming of age", at the Beyond the Culture of Nature: Rethinking Canadian and Environmental Studies Conference, Vancouver (September 29-30)
Moderator: “Biology, Bodies and Modernity” Session, Reconciling Poetics and Ethics in Architecture Conference, McGill University and the Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal (September 13-15)
Paper: “Lowell and the Waters of Industriousness.” At the Research In Progress Symposium, MIT, Cambridge, MA (April 14-15)
Moderator and Blind Peer Reviewer: “Unexpected Encounters” Session, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) International Conference Encounters/ Encuentros/Rencontres, Mexico City, Mexico (June 9-12)
Paper: “Textiles and Architecture: Weaving Modern Discourse.” At the ‘Textiles: 1890-1940’ Session of the 92nd College Art Association Annual Conference, Seattle, WA (February 18-21)
“Analogy and Mimesis as Foundations of Leonardo’s Thought.” At the Leonardo da Vinci and his Time Conference, McGill University Department of Italian Studies, Canada (October 12)
Lecturer and Workshop Co-Chair (with Alberto Pérez-Gómez): Architectural Observations:
Phenomenological Aspects of Architecture and its Education Symposium and Workshops, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands (June 13-15)
Paper: “On Building the Architect.” Woodbury University School of Architecture public evening lecture series, San Diego, California (February 21)
Lecturer and panelist: Architecture Pedagogies in Motion: Dialogues on the Education of an Architect, Sixth International Conference, Institute of Technological Studies (ITESM), Monterrey, Mexico (September 13-15)
Paper: “Philosophy’s Birth in Beauty” co-authored and co-presented with Dr. Lloyd Gerson (Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto) at The Polis and Culture Conference, International Center of Philosophy and Inter-Disciplinary Research, Olympia, Greece (August)
Co-organizer (with Jean-Pierre Chupin) of, and Presenter at, IDEA@UdeM 2013: International Doctoral Encounters in Architecture @ Université de Montréal, “Ornament, Algorithms and Analogies: between cognitive and technological operations in architectural ornament.”
(May 24-25)
Co-organizer and Research Assistant: The Object as Event Seminar One (Part II) “Vision and its Instruments in the Early Modern Period: the Art of Seeing and Seeing as an Art,” Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (February 8-9)
Co-organizer and Research Assistant: The Object as Event Seminar One (Part I) “Vision and its Instruments in the Early Modern Period: the Art of Seeing and Seeing as an Art,” Kunsthistorisches/Max Planck Institut, Florence, Italy (June 7-8)
Organizer: Student Symposium, New England Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (NE/SAH), Cambridge, MA (February 10)
Organizing committee member: Cambridge Talks I: Politics and History of Architecture, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (October 22)
Co-organizer: Architectural Periodicals of the 1960s and 70s Colloquium, l’Institut de recherche en histoire de l’architecture, Montreal (May 6-7)
Coordinator: Visiting Scholars’ Seminar series and one Mellon Public Lecture, Study Center, Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal (January-August)
Coordinator: Visiting Scholars’ Seminar series and two Mellon Public Lectures, Study Center, Canadian Center for Architecture Montreal (February-July)
Co-organizer: The Limits of Place in Architectural Discourse Colloquium, l’Institut de recherche en histoire de l’architecture, Montreal (March 22-23)
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