Selected Works
“Hit and Run: A Fable of Gallows, Gardens and Grief, ” in the Avery Journal, Issue 65, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, December 2023. Link: here
“The Urban Afterlives of Religion, History and Language” 2023 Roetzel Family Lecture in Religious Studies, University of Minnesota, October 2023.
“The Short Drop” Invited Lecture, Fall 2023 Landscape Architecture Lecture Series, Department of Landscape Architecture, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, September 2023.
“Post Text,” in Media Architecture Provocations, I. Callender and A. Dell’Aria, editors. Amsterdam: Set Margins’ Press, 2023.
“Speculations on the Power of Redefined Typologies,” Co-Authored with Suzy Harris-Brandts, Thena Tak, Piper, Bernbaum and Blair Satterfield. Presented at the 2023 Weaving Worlds Conference at T.U. Delft’s Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, June 2023.
“Minimum Requirements,” Co-authored with Professor Piper Bernbaum, presented at the 2023 ACSA Teacher’s Conference “Educating the Cosmopolitan Architect.” Reykjavik, Iceland, June 2023.
“A Fever Dream of Architecture” Invited Keynote: Media Architecture Biennale 2023, Toronto, Canada, June 2023
“-POST-“ Co-authored with Suzy Harris-Brandts, Thena Tak, Piper Bernbaum and Blair Satterfield. Presented at the CA2RE Conference at Aarhus University’s School of Architecture, March 2023.
Design Research for Uncertain Futures // Co-edited with Jamie Vanucchi (Cornell University), Sarah Dooling (Boston), Manuscript under development, Press Contract with Oro Editions (upcoming 2023)
AD: Architectures of Refusal // Volume 94, Issue #6. Co-edited with Professor Jill Stoner (Berkeley), London: Wiley, 2023. // featuring contributions by Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers (Dream the Combine), Ilze Wolff (Wolff Architects, Cape Town), Quilian Riano (Pratt); Piper Bernbaum (Carleton University), Carwil Bjork-James (Vanderbilt), Thireshen Govender (Johannesburg); Hannah Le Roux (Johannesburg), Lucía Jalón Oyarzun (EPFL)
“Drawing an Argument for Refusal,” in AD: Architectures of Refusal // Volume 94, Issue #6. Co-edited with Professor Jill Stoner (Berkeley), London: Wiley, 2023.
“An Argument for Unknowing,” in-Drawing Conference, Montreal, September 2022 (Presentation + Paper)
Dumbarton Oaks Mellon Fellowship Panel Discussion, Invited by Professor Thaïsa Way, with Nancy Levinson (Places Journal) and Swathi Chattophaday (JSAH, Platform), August 2022.
Collectivised Pedagogies: Architecture Beyond Capitalism School, InvitedSpeaker/Discussant, The Architecture Lobby NY, July 2022
“Deep Dust / The Killing Dark: Extractive Landscapes + Emancipatory Futures,” in 110th ACSA National Conference Proceedings, “Empower,” Los Angeles, March 2022 (Paper + Presentation)
Praxes of Care: Action(Moderator and Discussant), University of Waterloo School of Architecture. With Curry Hackett, Jelisa Blumberg and Jaliya Fonseka (March 2022)
“Kerosphere” // With Dr. Zoe Todd and Émélie Desrochers-Turgeon, in An Anthropogenic Table of the Elements: Experiments in the Fundamental, Edited by Tim Neale, Thao Phan and Courtney Addison (Toronto, University of Toroto Press), October 2022.
“Sacred Space in 19th Century Cape Town: Mosque, City, Landscape and a Radical Empiricism of the Spatial,”J. Kilde, editor. Oxford Handbook on Sacred Space (Oxford University Press), August 2022.
“Kerogenic Relations,” Co-authored with Dr. Zoe Todd + Émélie Desrochers-Turgeon. Transmedialé Berlin (Online), January 2022. Link: here.
“The Evolving Project: 75 years of the Journal of Architectural Education,” Invited Panelist, The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Webinar. With Dr. Sara Stevens, Dr. Igor Marjanovic, Nora Wendl, Dr. Marc Neveau, Dr. David Theodore, May, 2021.
Urbanism Beyond Corona, Invited Participant and Roundtable Discussant, California College for the Arts (Professor Jeannette Kim), November 2020.
“Deep Dust|The Killing Dark,” in Architect Magazine, November/December 2020 – Interview and Studio Prize Conversation, November/December 2020.
Ghost Landscapes: Making Muslim Space in 19th Century Cape Town at the Society of Architectural Historians, 73rd International Conference. Seattle, Washington, May 2020 (Paper + Presentation)
Viscosity: Mobilizing Materialities. Co-edited with Emily Eliza Scott (University of Oregon) + Karen Lutsky (University of Minnesota); UMinn Papers on Architecture, Volume 4, University of Minnesota School of Architecture, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2019.
“Water Water Everywhere…” with Émélie Desrochers-Turgeon, Dr. Zoe Todd and Johan Voordouw, in Lapsus Lima, edited by Monica Belevan, September, 2019. Link here.
“Community, Space and Time in Islamic Architecture,”in Faith and Form: The Interfaith Journal on Religion, Art and Architecture, Volume 51, no. 3, 2018
“A Dialogue on Sacred Space,”in Faith and Form: The Interfaith Journal on Religion, Art and Architecture, Volume 48, no. 3, 2018.
Great Lakes Design Labs: Designing with Change (Presentation) Co-presented with Karen Lutsky (University of Minnesota) and Jamie Vanucchi (Cornell University). 2018 Great Lakes Adaptation Forum, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, September 2018.
“Adaptive Archipelagos,” (Presentation), Working Waterfronts / Freshwater Fictions Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, July 2018.
Meadow, Mountaintop, Manor House: Sacred Space in 19th Century Muslim Cape Town, Invited Keynote, Religious Studies Summer Faculty/Student Workshop; University of Minnesota, June 2018.
In the Midst of our Mutually Baffling Cultures: Islamic Building, City, Landscape (Presentation), Cultural Mediations PhD Seminar, Professor D. McNeil, Department of History, Carleton University, April 2018.
Empire’s Design: Sinan, Tradition and Transformation in Ottoman Architecture, Invited Presentation, The Mediterranean Seminar Interdisciplinary Forum, University of Colorado, Boulder, October 2017.
“Meta, Meta: Curating Design Duluth,” (Presentation) Co-presented with Karen Lutsky, Vince Debritto and James Wheeler (University of Minnesota). 2017 CELA (Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture) Conference, “Bridging,” Beijing, China, May 2017.
“Unsalted and Shark-Free: Some Thoughts on Working in Duluth” (Presentation) With Vince Debritto. 2017 Dredgefest Great Lakes Conference, Minnesota, August 2015.
A life of Building: Sinan and the Making of the Ottoman World (Invited Presentation), Dar ul-Naim Islamic Seminary Wynberg, Cape Town, August 2014.
Hidden + Manifest: A Tale of Three Mosques (Invited public presentation), Auwal Mosque, Cape Town, August 2014.
“Design Duluth: An Emerging Project in Design Teaching and Community Engagement,” (Presentation) Co-presented with Vince Debritto (University of Minnesota), 2014 ACD (Association for Community Design) Conference, Emergence, University of Detroit-Mercy, Detroit, June 2014.
Visible + Invisible Infrastructures: Futures in Urban Resiliency, Failure + Design Pedagogy [ARCC 2014 Best Research Paper]. With Vince Debritto (University of Minnesota), 2014 ARCC (Architectural Research Centers Consortium) Conference, Beyond Architecture: Making New Connections and Intersections, University of Hawaii, February 2014.
Resilient Infrastructures, OR, Offshore to the North Shore! (Invited Presentation) University of Toronto, John H. Daniels Faculty of Arch., Landscape Design, Toronto, Canada, October 31, 2013.
Islamic Architecture: An abbreviated introduction to some Universal Ideas (Invited Presentation), Dar-ul-‘Ulum al-Arabbiya al Islamiyya, Gordon’s Bay, Cape Town, August, 2011.
“In the Name of the Father and the Son: The Spatial Dimension of Liturgy in Eliel and Eero Saarinen’s Christ Church Lutheran,”in Nexus Network Journal, Vol. 12, no. 2. Basel: Birkhauser, 2010, ISSN 1590-5896, 2010.
“Extra Territorial Experience: Difference, Global Circuits, Amateurs+Design Ethics, ” in ArteEast Quarterly. Edited by Ursula Biemann, Summer 2010.
Architecture + Community: Identity, Context and Place in Istanbul’s Heritage Fabric, OR, a Love Letter to Old ‘Stamboul in the 2009 IAPS (International Association of People-Environment Studies) Conference Proceedings, Istanbul, Turkey, October 2009. (Paper + Presentation)
“Representation, ” Symposium, Consortium for the Study of the Asias, University of Minnesota, Invited participant. Invited panelist with. Dr. Cathy Asher (Art History, U of M); Dr. Chrstine Marran (Asian Languages + Literature, U of M); Dr. Cathy Hakim (History, U of M); organised by Professor Karen Till (U of MN), April 2009.
Sacred + Political Phenomenology: The Contested Terrain of Religious Architecture 2nd Annual Architecture and Phenomenology Conference, Kyoto Seika University, Japan 2009.
Flamel’s Dream: Architecture as Alchemy 23rd Conference on the Beginning Design Student, Savannah College of Art + Design, Georgia, March 2008 (Paper + Presentation)
“The Spatial Dimensions o fLiturgy,” (Presentation) at the Architecture, Culture and Spirituality 1st Inaugural Symposium. Mount Angel Abbey Retreat, Oregon, March 2009.
“In the Form of His Father: Eliel and Eero Saarinen’s Christ Church Lutheran,” (Presentation) Eero Saarinen: Beyond the Measly ABC, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October, 2008.
“An Incomplete Curriculum for Change,” (Presentation) AIA National Convention, Boston MA (w. R. Cheng, R. Bhatt, J. Comazzi, M. Swawkhamer), May 2008.
“Solomon’s Narrative, Architecture, Text and the Sacred” in: Reading Spiritualities: Constructing and Representing and Sacred. Edited by Dawn Llewellyn and Deborah Sawyer. Surrey: Asghate Press, November 2008, pp. 176-188. ISBN 978-0-7564-6329-4
“Architectures of Emptiness,” Symposium, Invited respondent With Ciraj Rassool (History, University of Western Cape); Yasmeen Arif (Fellow, Political Science, U of M), University of Minnesota, February 2008.
“Narrative (His)Stories: Architecture, Religion and Sacred Space,” (Presentation), at Glasgow School of Art, Dept. of Historic Studies: The Past in the Present, October 2007.
“The Solomnic Narrative: Architecture, Text and the Sacred,” (Presentation and Book Chapter) Lancaster University, Dept. of Religious Studies Conference: Constructing and Representing Spiritualities Through Texts – Literary, Visual and Sacred, Lancaster, England, 2006.
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