Émélie  Desrochers-Turgeon

Research Topics

• architectural history and theory
• environmental history
• settler colonialism
• architecture as a territoriality of extraction
• ground dynamics / liquid landscapes
• spatial and environmental justice
• critical speculative design
• housing
• exhibition design

Education

• BA DesEnv (UQAM)
• MArch (McGill)
• PhD (Carleton)

Current Teaching (2024–25)

• ARCH 3002: B2 Design
• ARCH 4112: Architectural History and Theory: 20th Century to the Present
• ARCH 5199: Humanities Seminar
  
• ARCH 9015: MArch Thesis 2

Research/Practice Interests

Dr. Émélie Desrochers-Turgeon (she/her) is an architectural historian and designer whose work explores how land is negotiated through architecture. Her research focuses on the intersections of built environments and ecologies, with particular attention to colonial modernity, extractivism, and architectural histories of soil and repair. Her current project investigates the politics of scale of geoscience institutions in early 20th-century Canada. She is a member of the Beyond Extraction collective.

Selected Publications

• Alton, Christopher, Émélie Desrochers-Turgeon, and Zannah Mae Matson. 2024. "What Counts as Being Healed? Interview with elsa MH Mäki." Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada (JSSAC) / Journal de la Société pour l'étude de l'architecture au Canada (JSÉAC) 49, no. 1: 117–27. link
• Abughannam, Rana, Émélie Desrochers-Turgeon, Pallavi Swaranjali, and Federica Goffi. 2024. "Introduction." Architectures of Hiding: Crafting Concealment | Omission | Deception | Erasure | Silence. London and New York: Routledge. link
• Desrochers-Turgeon, Émélie. 2022. "On the Silence of the Archive: Examining Sensorial Agency Through the Drawings of Residential Schools in Canada." In The Routledge Companion to Architectural Drawings and Models. From Translating to Archiving, Collecting and Displaying, edited by Federica Goffi, 460–75. London and New York: Routledge. link
• Desrochers-Turgeon, Émélie. 2021. "There is a Breach in the Wall: Encounter with Arctic Terrains." The Avery Review 53. link
• Desrochers-Turgeon, Émélie. 2020. "Between Lines and Beyond Boundaries: Alootook Ipellie's Entanglements of Space." Études Inuit Studies 44, no. 1–2: 53–84. link

Selected Honours and Awards

• Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement, Carleton University, 2024
• Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, 2018–2021
• Doctoral Research Residency Program, Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2020
• Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS-Master's Scholarship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), 2016–2017
• Collège des Présidents award, Ordre des Architectes du Québec, 2014

Scholarly or Professional Memberships

• Society of Architectural Historians
• Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada
• American Society for Environmental History
• Landscape Research Group
• European Architectural History Network

Current and Past Service Activities

• Chair, Building Equality in Architecture Atlantic (BEAA), 2025–present
• Co-chair, EDIA Committee, 2024–present
• Chair, School of Architecture Committee, 2024–present
• Beyond Extraction collective, 2021–present
• Coordinator, Carleton Research | Practice of Teaching | Collaborative, 2019–2021