Stephen Parcell

Education

• BArch, University of Toronto
• MArch, Cranbrook Academy of Art
• PhD, McGill University

Current Teaching (2025–26)

• ARCH 4113: Architectural Theory and Interpretation
• ARCH 6126: Architectural Translation
• ARCH 9014: MArch Thesis 1
• ARCH 9015: MArch Thesis 2

Research / Practice Interests

Prof. Parcell's general research areas are architectural history, theory, and design. Research studies have focused on historical definitions of architecture, alliances between architecture and other disciplines, and tensions between architectural representations and the world at large. Philosophically, these studies are grounded in hermeneutics: how architecture is engaged and interpreted. His current research is on relations between medicine and architecture.

Selected Publications

• Parcell, Stephen. 2025. Your Halifax House. Website.
• Parcell, Stephen. 2025. After You Die in Halifax. Website.
• Parcell, Stephen. 2012. Four Historical Definitions of Architecture. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.
• Pérez-Gómez, Alberto, and Stephen Parcell, ed. 1994–2016. Chora: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture, vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3, vol. 4, vol. 5, vol. 6, vol. 7. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.
  
• Parcell, Stephen. 2015. "An Architectural Creation Myth Borrowed from the Phenomenology of Music." In Architecture's Appeal, ed. Marc Neveu and Negin Djavaherian, 205–17. London: Routledge.

Selected Honours and Awards

• ARCC/King Medal for Research, McGill University, 2008

Current Service Activities

• Member, Tenure and Promotion Panel, Dalhousie University
  
• Member, Training Committee, Canadian Architectural Certification Board
• External reviewer for book manuscripts, journal articles, conference papers, grant applications, awards, and tenure and promotion applications
  
• Editor for book manuscripts and doctoral dissertations
• Former member, Willow Tree Group, Halifax