PRESENTERS

FABRICATING TRUTH

 

 

 

PALLAVI SWARANJALI, Carleton University

 

Forging Architecture: The Contronymic Nature of Architectural Creation in the work of

 

Indian Ar. B.V.Doshi

 

 

 

 

STEVEN BEITES, Laurentian University

 

Context Through Awareness

 

 

 

 

KATIE GRAHAM, Carleton University

 

Architectural Storytelling in Virtual Reality: How VR Can Expand on Architectural Perception

 

 

 

 

TED LANDRUM, University of Manitoba

 

Poetry as Research: Fabricating Architectural Truth

 

 

FABRICATING IN SITU

 

 

 

SCOTT GERALD SHALL, Lawrence Technological University

 

Borrowed Intelligence: Leveraging Industrial Fabrication To Evolve Building Production

 

 

 

 

NAHID AHMADI, Carleton University

 

Asphalt Deserts: Rethinking the Architecture of Surface Parking Lots

 

 

 

 

DIETMAR STRAUB, University of Manitoba

 

A Beautiful Waste of Time: Operating a Snow Academy

 

 

 

 

JENNIFER SMITH, Auburn University

 

INCREMENTAL: Resilience through Disaster-Relief Housing

 

 

 

 

BRYAN HE, University of Manitoba

 

Making of the Hakka Vernacular

 

 

 

SOCIAL FABRICS

 

 

 

VALENTINA DAVILA, McGill University

 

Down the Back Stairs: Servants’ Spaces in Montreal’s Square Mile

 

 

Scholars have produced extensive literature describing the magnificent mansions that populate Montreal’s Square Mile. Flipping through the pages of such

 

publications readers are captivated by the fine, rich, and stylish interior architecture of these houses’ drawing rooms, dining rooms, bedrooms, art galleries and

 

private studies. Nevertheless, such lavishly gilded décor renders the kitchen and servants’ quarters invisible. This paper evaluates three of Montreal’s most

 

prominent mansions — now property of McGill University — from the standpoint of the many servants who inhabited them. In particular, it will analyze the spaces

 

designed with the domestic employees in mind and will draw a systematic comparison between the two types of coexisting spatial realities: one of contentment and

 

affluence and other of subjection and paucity. The three houses that structure the narrative presented here are the J.K.L House, Hugh Allan House, and H.V. Meredith

 

House, all located in the Square Mile and designed by Montreal’s acclaimed architects: William and Edward Maxwell.

 

 

The John Bland Canadian Architecture Collection’s affluent archives on the E. & W.S. Maxwell designs contain account books, names of contractors and artisans for

 

every one of the brothers’ buildings, along with the date, and cost of the work specially conceived for ambitious businessmen. These records, alongside their

 

magnificent, colorful drawings, provide an invaluable resource that underlines the degree of respect the Maxwell brothers awarded to their work. By using tools of

 

architectural analysis which includes photographs, plans, drawings, and on-site observations, this paper will broaden our understanding of a less-known type of

 

inhabitation happening in these houses. This research aims to disclose if, in fact, the “respectful approach” that E. & W.S. Maxwell granted to their designs was

 

extended to the servants’ portion of the building or if it was exclusive to the upper levels the “Merchant Princes of Montreal” inhabited.

 

 

 

 

 

LAWRENCE BIRD, Winnipeg

 

Dominion

 

 

 

 

ELLEN GRIMES, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

 

History's Future Fabrics: New Models for Historic Ecologies

 

 

 

 

NIKOLE BOUCHARD, University of Wisconsin

 

(H)our House

 

 

 

 

RYAN STEC, Carleton University

 

Making Public Space: Examining Walter Lippmann & John Dewey’s pragmatism as a

 

constructive expansion to the spatial theory of public space

 

MEDIATING FABRICS

 

 

LANCELOT COAR, University of Manitoba

 

Lignes d’erre: Tracing the History and Future of Force Flow in Structures

 

 

 

 

FEDERICO GARCIA LAMMERS & JESSICA GARCIA FRITZ, South Dakota State University

 

Master Building Complex Forms in the Absence of Graphics

 

 

 

 

JOE KALTURNYK, Winnipeg

 

The Temporary and the Intermediate: Strategies for a Better Dinner