Louis Martin

Ph.D. Architecture – Princeton University, Princeton, USA

Louis Martin teaches the history of architecture in the programmes of the Art History Department at UQAM, where he is Professor since 2004.

After graduating in architecture at the Université de Montréal (B.Arch., 1983), he pursued his studies in the history, theory and criticism programmes at MIT (S.M.Arch.S. 1988) and Princeton University (Ph.D. 2002). Using a comparative method, he studies the points of the intersection linking architectural theory and other disciplines.

He is currently working on a critical edition of the writings of Melvin Charney entitled On Architecture. Melvin Charney: A Critical Anthology which will be published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in 2013. His most recent publications includes “Fredric Jameson and Critical Architecture“, The Political Unconscious of Architecture: Re-opening Jameson’s Narrative. Nadir Lahiji, ed. Ashgate Studies in Architecture, London: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2011; “History, Theory, Criticism: The Evolution of an Intellectual Discourse“, Architecture School: 250 Years of Architectural Education in North America. Joan Ockman and Rebecca Williamson, eds. Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, 2012; “Paul Rudolph and the Anglo-American Axis“, Cynthia Davidson, ed. Yale University Press, (to be published).

He has published essays in Log,  Assemblage, Casabella, JSAH, Les cahiers de la recherche architecturale et urbaine, Critique d’art, and ARQ, among others.

Fields of specialization:

Histoire, théorie et critique de l’architecture

Mouvement moderne en architecture

Architecture nord-américaine et québécoise

Research groups:

Laboratoire d’étude de l’architecture potentielle (LEAP), Université de Montréal

Institut de recherche en histoire de l’architecture

Research grants:

« Une anthologie critique des écrits de Melvin Charney, architecte et artiste » – En collaboration avec Réjean Legault, professeur, École de Design, UQAM

(FQRSC-LEAP), Université de Montréal, 2008-2009

« Paroles d’architectes : enquête sur la culture architecturale au Québec de 1960 à nos jours. » – Recherche individuelle

Subvention du Programme d’aide financière à la recherche et à la création

(PAFARC), UQAM, 2005-2007

Academic background:

2002 : Ph.D. in  Architecture (Princeton University)

1991 : Master of Arts (Princeton University)

1988 : Master of Science in Architecture Studies (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

1983 : Baccalauréat en architecture (Université de Montréal)

Professional background:

2004- : Professeur d’histoire de l’architecture à l’Université du Québec à Montréal

2003-2004 : Chargé de formation pratique, École d’architecture, Université de Montréal

1997-2002 : Conservateur adjoint, Centre Canadien d’Architecture

1994-1996: Chargé de cours : University of Toronto, McGill University

1988-1989 : Professeur invité, École d’architecture, Université de Montréal

Doctorate thesis

MARTIN, Louis. The Search for a Theory in Architecture : Anglo-American Debates, 1957-1976, Princeton University, novembre 2002.

Masters thesis

Architectural Theory after 1968: A Comparative Study of the Theory and Work of Rem Koolhaas and Bernard Tschumi, M.I.T., août 1988.