杏吧原创

I am a licensed architect (OAQ), born in Montreal and a graduate of McGill University and Universit茅 de Montr茅al. My passion for cities, and their complex natural/cultural histories took me to Berlin for four years in the 1990s. Since 2002 I have been based in Ottawa, where some of my Scottish, Irish and French ancestors settled, starting in the 1830s. I bring to my teaching and research over twenty years of practice outside the university, and a strong belief in public education and community engagement.听As a fluent speaker of English, French and German, I am delighted to work with students or collaborate with others in any of these languages.

I have worked as a registered architect in the private sector, held teaching and research positions in Canadian universities, and both volunteered and been employed by local, national and international heritage organizations. In my most recent work prior to coming to 杏吧原创 I was senior conservation architect in the federal government.

As an architect, my project work has included museums, hospitals, schools, factories, a power station, lighthouses, office buildings, housing听and houses. This involved new design, rehabilitation,听additions, interiors, and condition assessments. I am happy to share more information on my professional career as an architect on request. While working in government I also worked on policy, and听I played a lead role in the revisions of the second edition of the听听in particular to address cultural landscapes, modern heritage and sustainability.听

I am interested in working with graduate students to supervise research in areas related to my current or past research or to places in cities that I have studied, including Montreal, Ottawa and Berlin. As听a faculty associate of the 听(CIMS),听a听research professor听with听the NSERC CREATE听HeritageEngineering听grant programme, and as a registered architect, I am also interested in supervision of students working in a wide range of architectural/engineering heritage conservation and sustainability themes. I am also a member of the 杏吧原创 Climate Commons Working Group and a faculty research associate in the . Recent supervisions are listed under the Teaching rubric.

My multiple research directions arise from the intersection of the conservation of urban landscapes, modern/industrial heritage, and sustainability.

• Waste Values and Heritage Places: See also the research website.听This work has been presented to听the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada,听the National Trust for Canada, the听Association听for Critical Heritage Studies, Re-opening the Bin: Waste, Economy, Culture and Society, and Build Reuse. In 2017, M.A. student Alison Creba completed an internship on related research at ERA Associates through the CIMS-based听 grant, and in 2018 she pursued additional related research with Rotor and the Vrije Universiteit Brussels in Belgium through a NSERC Create Heritage Engineering Internship and a MITACS Global Links Research Award. A related Symposium was held in October 2018, on . A special issue of the was published January 2020, and webinar held in October 2020.
• Critical Landscapes of Water Infrastructure: After recently returning to the subject of my graduate thesis* to participate in a TICCIH report on , I hope to further examine critical perspectives on engineering heritage, (post-) industrial park designs, environmental justice and water rights education in the conservation and transformation of urban waterworks sites. was published in听Proceedings of the Institute of Civil Engineers – Engineering History and Heritage in 2019.听*My graduate thesis about the changing landscapes of water supply in Montreal鈥檚 Mount Royal was published in .
• Greening Urban Heritage Districts: A related听presentation on the protection of natural heritage in residential districts in Ottawa was made at the annual conference of the Association for Preservation Technology in Quebec City in October 2014. A follow up听publication with draft Guidelines for the Conservation of Trees in Heritage Conservation Districts听was published in a special issue of APT Bulletin听on Cultural Landscapes dedicated to Susan Buggey. Following the recent designation of Macdonald Gardens Park in Lowertown East, a related article on the protection and commemorative values of urban parks in Ottawa is under way, as part of a broader discussion of heritage planning history in Canada.
• Conserving Modest/Moderne Apartment Buildings: Building on inventory work with students in CDNS 5402 W 2015, this research looks at the specific heritage values, conservation issues and opportunities of smaller purpose-built residential blocks听in Ottawa and other Canadian cities. Ottawa examples and research led to a .听My chapter “Conserving ‘modest’ Moderne housing: 1930s apartment buildings in Canada” was published in the 听in 2019.
• Ottawa School Heritage: This work started from a student project in CDNS 5402 W 2020, which led to a published in Fall 2020, completed with help from Micah Norris, SICS MA student, and funding from a .听Further research will focus on school demolitions, reuse and commemoration, with an initial focus on the . A related area is the study of vacant buildings and their capacity for reuse in new ways and problem of demolition by neglect.

Past published research areas have included modern/industrial heritage typologies and materials and their conservation, sustainable heritage conservation, the sustainability of modern wood heritage and traditional wood technologies, housing costs/affordability and urban theatre design.

Emerging research themes in heritage conservation are explored every year in the School’s graduate-student-organized symposium. For information about the theme of the most recent symposium, see Heritage Conservation Symposium 2021. In 2022 I helped to organize the ICOMOS University Forum Knowledge Areas for Climate Adaptation as part of Just Transitions: Heritage Education for Climate Adaptation

• CDNS 1101 Ottawa: Exploring National Institutions (2014, 2015)
• CDNS 2400 Heritage Places and Practices in Canada (2015-2020, 2022, 2025)
• CDNS 4400 Cultural Landscapes and Identity in Canada (2015, 2016, 2019)
• CDNS 4403/5403 Heritage Conservation and Sustainability (2014, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2025)
  • Student work:
• CDNS 5401 Heritage Conservation: History, Principles and Concepts (2013, 2021)
• CDNS 5402 Heritage Conservation: Theory in Practice (2014-2020, 2022, 2025)
  • Student work:
  • Student work related book:
  • Student work:
• ARCN 4200 鈥� Building Pathology and Rehabilitation (2012, 2013)

Supervision – Thesis/Major Research Essay/Directed Studies

• Gyn Wylie, Displaced Heritage: Place Attachment, The Loss of Land and the Effects on Community Identity, Major Research Essay (M.A.), School of Canadian Studies, 2023 (Co-supervision with John Walsh).
• Greg Macpherson, Disassembling Ontario: Assessing Deconstruction Policy as a Circular Heritage Conservation Strategy,听Major Research听Essay听(M.A.), School of Canadian Studies, 2023.
• Jack Hollinger, Tactility in Heritage Conservation: The Importance of Understanding Wood and the Craft of Its Usage,听Directed Studies (M.A.) School of Canadian Studies, 2022.
• Kevin Complido, “Symbols and Sentinels: Cultivating Literacy of Place in Central Industrial, Saskatoon,” Thesis (M.Arch), School of Architecture and Urbanism, 2020.听(Co-supervision with Mariana Esponda)
• Nansen Murray, Averting heritage loss by expanding conservation treatments: Defining policy for materials salvage for reuse and ruination, at Keno Hill, Yukon Territory, Canada, Major Research听Essay听(M.A.), 听School of Canadian Studies, 2020.
• Christie Ellis Wong, Future Heritage for Millwood, Sustainable Place-making in Suburban Nova Scotia, Thesis (M.Arch), School of Architecture and Urbanism, 2020.听(Co-supervision with Mariana Esponda)
• Kathleen Jillian Coulthart,听Thesis (M.Arch), School of Architecture and Urbanism, 2019.听(Co-supervision with Mariana Esponda)
• Mikaela Gallinger, Heritage and Sustainability in Canada and Abroad. Directed Studies (M.A.) School of Canadian Studies, 2019.
• Shiloh Bell,听Cultural Landscapes in Canada: Parks, Environments and Communities. Directed Studies (B.A.) School of Canadian Studies, 2018.
• Alison Creba, ON-SITE: Examining Heritage Values at the Deconstruction Site, The Case of Mirvish Village and Hones Ed’s Toronto. Major Research Project (M.R.P.) School of Canadian Studies, 2018.
• Kathleen Chin, The Potential of The Discarded: Creating Affordable Housing from Vacant Buildings. Thesis (M.Arch), School of Architecture and Urbanism, 2018.听(Co-supervision with Mariana Esponda)
• Zeynep Ekim,听听Thesis (M.Arch.), School of Architecture and Urbanism, 2017.听(Co-supervision with Mariana Esponda)
• Krista Gowan,听The ABC’s of Ontario Cultural Resource Management: A Critical Look at How Historical Archaeology Maintains Settler Systems, Spaces and Stories.听Major Research听Essay听(M.A.), School of Canadian Studies, 2017.
• Carly Farmer,听The Industrial Heritage Significance of Old Mill Park, Lindsay, Ontario. Directed Studies (M.Arch.)听School of Canadian Studies, 2015.
• Stephanie Elliott,听In the (Historical) Moment: Theme Park Interactive Techniques in History Museums.听Major Research听Essay听(M.A.), 听School of Canadian Studies, 2015.
• Victoria Ellis,听Charting the Myths of Franklin’s Lost Expedition: History, Myth and Archaeological Potential in the North West Passage.听Directed Studies (M.A.) School of Canadian Studies, 2014.
• Margaret Caron-Vuotari,听History, Heritage and Conservation: Workers Housing in Canada.听Directed Studies (M.A.) School of Canadian Studies, 2014.

Examination Committee – PhD. Comprehensive Exams/Dissertation

• Barbara Lambec, EPFL (Lausanne), Reuse potentials of building elements: learning from existing practices and synthesis of assessment methods, January 2025
• Victoria Pelky, 杏吧原创 University, subjects: Regionalism, Identity, Space, Place and Placemaking, February 2023
• Helen Knibb, Trent University, subject: Vernacular Architecture, September, 2017

Reviewer/Reader – Thesis/Major Research听Essay

• Micah Norris, Heritage Lost or Heritage Gained? Examining the Value of Damage and Destruction at World Heritage Sites.听Major Research Essay听(M.A.), School of Canadian Studies, 2022.
• Jack Mallon, Colonial Idol and Criminal Effigy: Anti-colonial Iconoclasm in twentieth-first century Canada,听Major Research Essay听(M.A.), School of Canadian Studies, 2021.
• Alexander Robinson, The Re-Amortization Act: A Material Durational Agenda for Conservation, Thesis (M.Arch.), University of Waterloo, 2021.
• 脡tienne B茅rub茅, Climate Change and Architectural Conservation Resiliency: How to Measure Environmental Impacts on Historic Sites and their Surrounding Communities. Thesis (M.Arch), School of Architecture and Urbanism, 2021.
• Larissa Ide, Balancing Trade-Offs Between Deep Energy Retrofits and Heritage Conservation, Thesis (M.A.Sc. Civil Engineering), 2020.
• Casey Gray, Sites of Grave Meaning: The Heritage of Human Remains on the Rideau Canal, Thesis (M.A.), School of Canadian Studies, 2018.
• Sarah Chelchowski, Absent Stakeholders: The Redevelopment of Kingston Penitentiary, Major Research Essay (M.A. Public History), 2018.
• Nathalie Miller, Conservation of Historic Timber Structures: Case Study of the Governor General鈥檚 Pavilion Roof, 听Thesis (M.A.Sc. Civil Engineering), 2017.
• Alex Federman, Documentation for the Conservation of Built Heritage: Analysis of Recording Methodologies, Thesis (M.A.Sc. Civil Engineering), 2017.
• Carly Farmer, Regenerating the Heart of Rural Ontario: New Life for Old Mills, Thesis (M.Arch), School of Architecture and Urbanism. 2017.
• Hillary Little, Revealing Memory: Rehabilitating Pedestrian Experience at the Central Experimental Farm, Thesis (M.Arch), School of Architecture and Urbanism. 2017.
• Nicole Howell, Beyond Visualization: Spatial Presence and Virtual Heritage, Thesis (M.Arch), School of Architecture and Urbanism. 2017.
• Taylor Balodis, Deconstruction and Design for Disassembly: Analyzing Building Material Salvage and Reuse, Thesis (M.Arch), School of Architecture and Urbanism. 2017.
• Michael Steinhauer, The Changing Face of Canada鈥檚 Parliament Buildings: An Analysis of the Visual Representation, Thesis (M.A. Art History), School of Visual Arts and Culture, 2016
• Cassandra Joyce, Owning the Podium: The Competing Priorities of Participation and Excellence in Canadian Federal Sports Policy, 听Major Research Essay听(M.A.), School of Canadian Studies, 2015.
• Trina Cooper-Bolam, Healing Heritage: New Approaches to Commemorating Canada鈥檚 Indian Residential School System, Thesis (M.A.), School of Canadian of Studies, 2014.
• Darcy Charlton, Digital Applications for Heritage Architecture: Using Location-based Technologies to Contextualize Digital Cultural Heritage Assets, Thesis (M.Arch.), 听School of Architecture听and Urbanism, 2010.
• J. Alan MacCraken, Strategies of Reconstruction and Alteration: Berlin and the Palace of the Republic, Thesis (M.Arch.), 杏吧原创 University School of Architecture and Urbanism, 2009.

Associations

• Ordre des Architectes du Quebec (OAQ)
• Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC)
• Canadian Green Building Council (CaGBC- LEED AP)
• Association for Preservation Technology International (APT)
• ICOMOS Canada

Committees

• Co-chair,听鈥檚 Education and Research Focus Group.
• Co-chair,
• Co-ordinator,
• Expert Member,

Honours & Awards (recent)

• Inducted into the College of Fellows, Association for Preservation Technology International, 2013.
• 杏吧原创 University FASS Junior Research Award, 2016.

Book

• Co-editor with Carolyn Quinn and Richard Belliveau. 听Heritage Ottawa (2017).

Book Chapters

• 鈥淗eritage Education for Climate Justice and Adaptation鈥� in Heritage Education for Climate Action, (Irene G. Curulli, Deniz Ikiz Kaya and Arghavan Khaefi, Editors), Wiley-ISTE (2023), ISBN: 978-1-394-25543-6, 65-74
• in Cameron, Christina, editor, Evolving Heritage Conservation Practice in the 21st Century, Creativity, Heritage and the City, vol 5,听Singapore: Springer Nature, 2023, 113-128. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2123-2_7
• “Conserving ‘modest’ Moderne housing: 1930s apartment buildings in Canada,” in The Routledge Companion to Art Deco (Bridget Elliott and Michael Windover, editors), Routledge (2019), 317-339. Available as e-book from the 杏吧原创 University library.
• 鈥淐onserver le bois moderne: des strat茅gies environnementales pour un patrimoine organique,鈥澨齣n La sauvegarde de l鈥檃rchitecture 鈥╩oderne (F. Vanlaethem and M.-J.Therrien, editors), UQAM (2014), 305-324.
• 鈥淗idden Water in the Landscape: the Covered Reservoirs of Mount Royal,鈥� in Metropolitan Natures: Environmental Histories of Montreal (S. Castonguay and M. Dagenais, editors), Pittsburgh University Press (2012), 115-132.

Journal Articles and Papers in Proceedings

• 鈥淩e-evaluating Heritage Waste: Sustaining Material Values through Deconstruction and Reuse,鈥澨�The Historic Environment: Policy and Practice. 听DOI:听
• “Heritage and Waste: Introduction” (with Victoria Angel),听Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development 10.1. Access here:
• “Waterworks in a changing climate: the R.C. Harris filtration plant, Toronto, Canada,” Proceedings of the Institute of Civil Engineers – Engineering History and Heritage 172.3 (2019): 125-135.
• “Vancouver Experiment: Reinventing a Modern University Campus.” Conference paper August 29, 2018 at Docomomo International conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia (2018)
• “Case study: R.C. Harris filtration plant, Toronto, Canada”, in Douet, J. (2018). Barcelona: TICCIH. Also report scientific committee.
• “Sustainable Conservation Strategies for Canada’s Modernist Wood Legacy.” Journal of Architectural Conservation听23.3, 171-189.听
• “Enhancing Conservation Tools for Natural Heritage in Historic Districts,” Association for Preservation Technology Bulletin (2016).
• 杏吧原创 University School of Canadian Studies Heritage Conservation Symposium (proceedings), 杏吧原创 University (2013).
• 鈥淗ow Green was Canadian Modernism? How Sustainable Will it Be?鈥� Docomomo International Journal, special Canada Modern issue (2008). Nb. Also published in a French version.
• 鈥淚ntegrating Environmental and Cultural Sustainability鈥� (with Andrew Powter), Association for Preservation Technology Bulletin (2005).
• 鈥淪team or Water Power? Thomas C. Keefer and the Engineers Discuss the Montreal Waterworks in 1852,鈥� Industrial Archaeology (2003).
• 鈥淢ontreal鈥檚 Grain Elevator no.5, The Uncertain Fate of a Modern Icon,鈥� Docomomo International Journal (2003).
• 鈥淧ure Water in The City: Covering the Reservoirs on Mount Royal鈥� in Landscapes of Water: History, Innovation and Sustainable Design (conference proceedings), Politecnico di Bari (2002).

Web-based publications

• Ross, S. (2017).”.” Discard Studies听
• Ross, S. (2017). “.” Discard Studies
• Reports for the Indigenous Learning Place project:
  • Desrochers-Turgeon, L., Zanussi, D., and Ross, S. (2017). Indigenous Learning Place Precedents Research 2017
  • Ross, S. (2017).听杏吧原创 University Amphitheatre – History and Significance
• News on student based research:
  • Rubinstein, D. (2017) “Lifting Macdonald Gardens Park: Students Help Secure Heritage Designation,” 杏吧原创 Stories
  • McPherson, L. (2017) 听杏吧原创 Newsroom听 听 听 听 听听

Presented papers, invited lectures, panels and other public talks (since 2014 only)

• Conference paper, June 10, 2021.听“Urban Salvage Yards as Hubs for Emerging Repair and Reuse Communities.” Conference University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
• Conference paper, May 29, 2021. “Cultivating paradoxical views of landscapes of loss.” Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada Annual conference, Architecture in the clouds.
• Lecture/Panel, May 20, 2021. “On Deconstruction/Heritage & Sustainability,” Architectural Conservancy of Ontario. See link for video.
• Panel, March 31, 2021. National Trust for Canada Gathering of the Heritage Sector. See link for video.
• Lecture/Panel, February 23, 2021. FASS Healthy Cities, 杏吧原创 University. See link for video.
• Roundtable, February 18, 2021. “Retrofit 鈥� Energy Crises & Climate Exigencies from Preservation鈥檚 Perspective.”听Future Anterior Journal
  author roundtable organized by guest editors Fallon Aidoo and Daniel Barber.
• Invited lecture, October 26, 2020. “Conservation du patrimoine b芒ti et d茅veloppement durable: des valeurs aux objectifs.” Universit茅 de Montr茅al.
• Webinar talk, October 16, 2020. “Waste and New Heritage Values.”See link for video.
• Conference paper, October 6, 2020. Joint APT-NTC conference.
• Workshop October 29, 2019, 鈥�,鈥� 听BMRA/Building Reuse听Decon & Reuse Conference 2019,听Pittsburgh
• Invited speaker, walking tour,听July 17, 2019,听鈥淓xploring the Mountain鈥檚 Role as Water Tower,鈥� , Concordia University.
• Invited speaker, May 3, 2019, “R茅invention durable du campus de l’Universit茅 de la Colombie-Britannique,” Docomomo Quebec (UQAM, Montreal),
• Lecture April 30, 2019, “Research on waste heritage as part of the New Paradigms New Tools SSHRC grant,”听CIMS (杏吧原创).
• Invited lecture April 3, 2019, 听听as part of the S茅minaire en mus茅ologie et pratiques des arts: L鈥檕bjet (prof. M茅lanie Boucher), at UQO Pavilion Lucien-Brault, Gatineau, Quebec.
• Invited speaker January 18, 2019, in Friends of Art History Visual Culture Lecture Series: 鈥淩e-using / Re-locating, Architecture鈥檚 Discards鈥� 听St. Patrick鈥檚 Building, 杏吧原创 University
• Conference paper Dec.6, 2018, Looking Back Looking Forward. “The 2011 Montreal Roundtable: Impact of Sustainability Strategies on Heritage Conservation Practice.”
• Invited lecture Nov.20, 2018 at the Centre of Transnational Analysis’s Global Pedagogies Workshop Rethinking (art) history and its historiographic frameworks听on听鈥淭eaching the History of Canadian Heritage Practice as part of International Conservation Associations.鈥�
• Symposium organizer Oct.26-27, 2018, 杏吧原创 University:
• Conference paper August 29, 2018 at Docomomo International conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia (2018):听“Vancouver Experiment: Reinventing a Modern University Campus.”
• Invited speaker April 13, 2018, at TICCIH thematic conference Barcelona on “Storing treated water in the historic urban landscape: Montreal.”
• Book launch and lecture “Between the Wars: 1930s Apartment Buildings in Ottawa,”听 听Heritage Ottawa (2017).
• FASS CU in the City Panel听Old Buildings/New Forms: Transforming Ottawa听(2016)
• 听Association for Critical Heritage Studies, Montreal (2016)
• “Heritage (Waste) and Sustainability: Recent Developments in Policy and Research,” National Trust for Canada, Calgary, AB (2015)
• “Deciphering an Urban Palimpsest: Lowertown’s Macdonald Gardens,” CHESS: Canadian History & Environment Summer School, Ottawa (2015)
• “The Contribution of Architecture to Heritage Conservation,”听听Interdisciplinarity and Heritage Conservation: from Theory to Practice,听Round Table Organized by the Canada Research Chair on Built Heritage Faculty of Environmental Design, Universit茅 de Montr茅al听(2015).
• “Can We Use Heritage Conservation Districts to Make Historic Ottawa Neighbourhoods More Sustainable and Resilient?” Association for Preservation Technology International, Quebec City (2014)
• 鈥淔lotsam, Jetsam and Derelict: Classifications of Architectural Waste鈥� Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada, Fredericton, NB (2014).
• 鈥淥verview of 2014 Round Table,鈥� Exploring the Cultural Value of Nature: a World Heritage Context, Round Table Organized by the Canada Research Chair on Built Heritage Faculty of Environmental Design, Universit茅 de Montr茅al (2014).

Book Reviews

• “Review of Perceptions of Sustainability in Heritage Studies听ed. by Marie-Theres Albert, and;听Going Beyond: Perceptions of Sustainability in Heritage Studies No. 2 ed. by Marie-Theres Albert et al.” Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation History, Theory, and Criticism听18(1), 147-153.听.
• “Architecture and the Canadian Fabric,” edited by Rhodri Windsor Liscombe,听Scientia Canadensis听(2016)
• 鈥淪ustainable Renovation: Strategies for Commercial Building Systems and Envelope,” by Lisa Gelfand and Chris Duncan,鈥澨�APT Bulletin听(2013).
• 鈥淲ater, Time and European Cities, History Matters for the Futures,” P.S. Juuti, T.S. Katko, ed.,听Industrial Archaeology (2006)

Essay in Artist Catalogue

• 鈥淯ndermining the Brigus Landscape,鈥澨齣n听Robert Tombs: Brigus Mark 07/12/07, Ottawa: L’Ar猫ne (2016). PDF available on Academia.edu.

Literature Review

• Ann D. Horowitz, Maria F. Lopez, Susan M. Ross and Jennifer A. Sparenberg, Association for Preservation Technology, Technical Committee on Sustainable Preservation (2016).

Community and other report

• Victoria Ellis, Susan Ross, editors, . (2014)