McEwen School of Architecture

Aliki Economides

Assistant Professor, Ph.D.

Education

  • Ph.D., Harvard University
  • M.A. History of Science, Harvard University
  • M.Arch (post-professional degree), History and Theory of Architecture, McGill University
  • B.Arch (professional degree), University of Toronto

Contact aeconomides@laurentian.ca
Office: SA-209 - Downtown Sudbury Campus
705 675 1151 #7265

Preferred Language

English, français

Biography

Aliki Economides is an Assistant Professor at Laurentian University’s McEwen School of Architecture. Trained as an architect and holding a Ph.D. in architectural and urban history from Harvard University where she was a Frank Knox Fellow, her research focuses primarily on: the roles played by the built and natural environment in the construction of identity; the profound and mutually reinforcing relationships between social and spatial injustices; and the history, theory, and contemporary practice of ornament in architecture. With filmmaker Paul Carvalho, she collaborated on the documentary film, Une Tour sur la montagne : l’architecture d’Ernest Cormier et sa vie avec Clorinthe Perron [A Tower on the Mountain: the architecture of Ernest Cormier and his life with Clorinthe Perron], which is based on her doctoral thesis and was produced for Radio-Canada in 2020. In addition to her first book manuscript titled, Constructing Identity: Ernest Cormier and the Project of Modernity, she is working on a publication on the architecture of jurisprudence, and is co-editing a special issue of the Urban History Review on capital cities. Throughout 2016, Aliki was a postdoctoral Scholar-in-Residence at McGill University’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montréal (CIRM) where she continues to be an Associate Member. Her research has also been supported by the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Rockefeller Archive Center, the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), the Laurentian University Research Fund, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council’s (SSHRC) New Research Initiative Fund.

Research and Scholarship

2023 Session Chair: “Cast in (an undesirable) place: socio-spatial inequalities in the built environment”, Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada (SSAC) Annual Conference, Calgary 
2023 Round table discussion panelist: Visionnement-discussion “Une tour sur la montagne : le Montréal d’entre-deux-guerres au prisme de l’oeuvre d’Ernest Cormier” [virtual] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhLhGdy0c_A&ab_channel=CRIEMCIRM
2021 Session Chair: “Open Session”, Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual International Conference [virtual]
2021 Invited lecturer: “The Mountain, the Monument, and the Muse”, Third Age Learning Guelph [virtual]
2021 Session Chair: “Design Process and Methods”, 109th Annual Meeting Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) [virtual]
2021 ​​Moderator: “Labo F M-R – Patrimoine”, Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires en études montréalaises (CRIEM/CIRM), Université McGill https://www.mcgill.ca/centre-montreal/fr/ressources/multimedia
2020 Round table discussion panelist: “Canadian Modern Architecture: 1967 to the Present”, McEwen School of Architecture Public Lecture Series
2019 Speaker-panelist for: “Conférence-Expérience Émouvoir : Aménager – Expérience et Innovation d’un Quartier”, Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires en études montréalaises (CRIEM/CIRM), Université McGill
2019 Conference Paper (with Kate Morawietz): “Engagements with the Matter of the Berlin Wall”, 2019 Conference of the Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC), Québec City
2018 Conference Paper: “Skin, or, the Enveloping Tactics of Architectural Ornament”, 71st Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), St Paul, Minnesota
2018 Session Chair: “Cosmopolitanism, Citizenship, and the City (19th to 21st centuries)”, European Association for Urban History (EAUH) International Conference, Rome
2018 Discussion moderator: Simon Yiu-Tsan Ng, “Can the Flâneur be Imperfect?”, Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires en études montréalaises (CRIEM/CIRM), Université McGill

Creative Activity

2020 Paul Carvalho and Aliki Economides. Une Tour sur la Montagne : l’architecture d’Ernest Cormier et sa vie avec Clorinthe Perron. [A Tower on the Mountain: the architecture of Ernest Cormier and his life with Clorinthe Perron]. Directed by Paul Carvalho. Montréal: Perception Films Inc for Radio-Canada, 2020. DVD (52 mins).

Loading images...

Publications

2023 Economides, Aliki. “The Architecture of Jurisprudence – Montréal and Ottawa.” In Utopia and Hubris: Classicism in Canada, 1900-1939, edited by Joan Coutu and David Galbraith [forthcoming].
2021 Economides, Aliki. « La beauté des villes ». Cahiers numériques du CRIEM / CIRM’s Digital Notebooks 4, n° 5 ‘Émouvoir’ (juillet 2021) : 36-43. https://issuu.com/criem-cirm.arts/docs/amenager_emouvoir
2019 Economides, Aliki. “The Cormier Residence in Relief.” In The Routledge Research Companion to Art Deco, edited by Bridget Elliott and Michael Windover, 39-66. New York: Routledge, 2019.

Honors and Awards

2023-2024 SSHRC Explore Grant – New Research Initiative Fund
2019-2021 Laurentian University Research Fund (LURF)
2019 Rogers Documentary Fund (with Producer Paul Carvalho, Perception Films)
2018 Radio-Canada Production Contract, funded by Ici Radio in conjunction with the Canadian Film Fund (with Producer Paul Carvalho, Perception Films)
2018 Rockefeller Archive Center Research Stipend
2018 Society of Architectural Historians’ George R. Collins Fellowship