Roger Mullin

Education

• BEDS, Technical University of Nova Scotia
• MArch (FP), Technical University of Nova Scotia

Current Teaching (2025–26)

• (sabbatical leave)

Research/Practice Interests

Roger Mullin's research in landscape and coastal infrastructures is bracketed by methodologies of construction and representation as they pertain to material and climatic phenomena. Roger has practiced in Berlin and New York City and has completed many educational design-build projects, including at remote locations in Iceland and Norway. In 2023 Roger and students collaborated with Indigenous Knowledge holders to complete support structures for Indigenous youth athletes as part of the North American Indigenous Games, Kjipuktuk (Halifax), Dartmouth and Millbrook First Nation, Nova Scotia. Roger was Visiting Professor of Architecture at the Iceland Academy of the Arts as a comprehensive studio instructor in 2023, and has been commissioned to deliver drawing workshops in Canada, Norway and Croatia.

Selected Publications

• Mullin, Roger. 2025. "The Travelling Conté Stick, As Found and As Could Be: Not a Touristic Gaze." On Site 46: 26–9.
• Mullin, Roger. 2022. "Almost Invisible Ink: A Bridge, A Corridor and a Shelter." On Site 41: 26–31.
• Mullin, Roger. 2010. "The Uncertain Centre of the Mary Celeste." MADE (Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff, Wales) 6: 67-76.
• Macy, Christine, and Roger Mullin, ed. 2008. A Comparative Study of Two Communities in The Gambia.
• Cavanagh, Ted, Richard Kroeker, and Roger Mullin. 2005. "For Want of Wind." Journal of Architectural Education 58, no. 4: 6-11.

Selected Built Works

• North American Indigenous Games, youth athlete support structures, Kjipuktuk, Mi'kma'ki. 2023.
• 3rd Obstruction, Bay of Fundy, NS. 2019.
• Inverted king truss footbridge, Ward Falls, NS. 2018.
• Forest Cave, Mógilsá, Iceland. 2018. 
• SALT Shelters, Sandhornøy, Norway. 2015.
• Uncertain Centre of the Mary Celeste, Spencer’s Island, NS. 2007–12.

Selected Honours and Awards

• Indigenous Seed Research Fund Grant. 2026. "Mawkwil~mn~j: Let's Look for It Together."
• Anne Marie Ryan Teaching and Learning Enhancement Grant. 2025. "Making Space: Co-learning through the Lens of Architecture, Collaborative Construction, and Occasion."
• Visiting Professor of Architecture, Iceland Academy of the Arts. 2024. Three-month comprehensive studio instructor.
• Keynote speaker, Atmosphere 15_LAND+. Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Manitoba. 2022. "Performative Prototypes."
• MITACS Accelerate, Indigenous Pathways Program. $30,000. Principal investigator. 2022. "Etuaptmumk, A Two-Eyed Seeing Approach to Live-Projects: Prototyping Deployable, Culturally Identifiable Spaces for Indigenous Youth Athletes."
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterwork Arts Award (co-recipient, with Ted Cavanagh, Richard Kroeker, and Alden Neufeld). 2006. Best collaborative practice, ACSA, Salt Lake City; Design Exchange / National Post Gold Award, best public commercial building in Canada. 2005.

Service Activities

Faculty-level:

• Chair, Diversity Faculty Search Committee, 2025–26.
• Undergraduate Student Advisor, 2024–25.
• Chair, Technology Teaching Group, 2021–24.
• Member, Program Committee, 2021–24.
• Chair, EDIA Committee, 2022–23.
• B2 Design co-coordinator, 2022.

University-level:

• Member, Dalhousie Faculty of Graduate Studies Council, 2003–06.
• Member, Dalhousie Senate Committee on the Environment, 2004–08.
• Member, University of King's College Senate Committee on Grounds and Safety, 2008–10.