Teaching

Quick links to selected teaching portfolio pages (also available in the menu-drop-down list):

PhD Advising // M.Arch Thesis Supervision // Graduate Teaching // Undergraduate Teaching

Current Teaching Appointments:

  • Full Professor of Architecture, Carleton University School of Architecture and Urbanism, Carleton University, Ottawa
  • Cross Appointed Faculty: Institute for African Studies, Carleton University
  • Affiliate Faculty: Carleton Center for the Study of Islam
  • Affiliate Faculty: Royal Roads University, Vancouver
  • Adjunct Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Minnesota

Ozayr began teaching in 1999 as a Teaching Assistant, working with first year design studio, then as a sessional instructor at Carleton University, teaching in the second, third, fourth and M.Arch Q-Year (qualifying year studios. At the University of Minnesota, he taught in the graduate and undergraduate programs, teaching courses in architectural drawing, Graduate and Undergraduate studios, and the first year Introduction to Architecture classes. His primary teaching was at the graduate level, with a focus on second and third year graduate teaching and he served as the M.Arch thesis coordinator for several years (with Professor Gayla Lindt). From 2011-2016, he co-taught and co-developed (with Professor Vince Debritto, from Landscape Architecture), the award-winning Design Duluth Studio, which brought together third year MLA, M.Arch and Urban and Regional Planning students as part of a community engaged design studio with the city of Duluth, Minnesota. Teaching colleagues included James Wheeler (Architecture), Jamuna Golden (Landscape Architecture), Karen Lutsky (Landscape Architecture), Jennifer Krava (Landscape Architecture) and Kai Salmela (Architecture). The Design Duluth studio was the recipient of an ACSA Collaborative Practice Award, as well as funding from the Bush Foundation Community Innovation grants, among others. In addition, Professor Saloojee developed the Rome-Istanbul undergraduate study abroad program, which ran from 2007-2016, and included, for several years, an Istanbul based studio (designed by Erginoglu & Calislar Architects) in Istanbul’s Galata district. That program hosted the University of Minnesota’s MLA Cities on Water Program (lead by Professor Vince Debritto), that brought students to the Netherlands, Istanbul and Spain. Professor Saloojee has also been an invited workshop tutor for the May term Cities on Water program, leading three drawing workshops in the Andalucian cities of Seville, Cordoba and Granada. He has also been invited to lead (with other educational institutions) teaching and field workshops in Istanbul, and Turkey.

At Carleton University, Ozayr teaches in the graduate and undergraduate programs, including in the M.Arch Options Studios (with studios that have focused on speculative landscape futures in the Great Lakes, on infrastructure and megaprojects in Istanbul, on hydro-politics in Palestine, and the award winning “Deep Dust/Killing Dark” studio, which focused on Johannesburg’s extractive terrains). He has taught undergraduate studios in the urbanism stream of the B.A.S program, focusing on large-scale projects in Istanbul (with affiliated study-abroad components), and recently, a studio titled “The Cities We Become And Deny,” which looked at questions of spatial urban justice. He also co-taught the introduction to architecture course (with Visiting Critic Mokena Makeka, from Cape Town), as well as urbanism seminars on the decolonial city, including a seminar titled “Block/Mutations,” whose student work was selected for exhibition at the Seoul Architecture Biennale (with Professor Jae-Sung Chon from the University of Manitoba). Professor Saloojee recently (in 2021), taught the M.Arch Directed Research Studio, with 14 M.Arch thesis students. He is currently supervising 5 PhD students (one at Royal Roads University’s College of Interdisciplinary Sciences), and on the committee for 3 more: 2 at Carleton (one student in Geography, and another in Sociology), and a third in the College of Interdisciplinary Sciences at Royal Roads University in Vancouver. Professor Saloojee regularly serves as an external supervisor at other schools and has served on M.Arch thesis committees at the University of British Columbia, and as an external examiner at the University of Waterloo.