CCA Research Fellowship Program

As an international research institution, the CCA operates in the spaces between architectural
culture at large and academic discourse through exhibitions, publications, public events, and
research programs. The CCA’s Research Fellowship Program supports innovative, advanced
research to foster new kinds of intellectual exchange that spark long-term dialogue and debate.

At the CCA we are working on a broad range of topics relevant to architectural discourse today.
Current topics of particular interest include: the digital turn in processes of design and
communication in architecture; the transformation of the profession or discipline and its
relationship to society past and present; the role of photography role within architectural visual
culture, especially in the digital era; the relationship of architecture to the environment, in terms
of the ways architects use, impact, and understand nature; and the historical role of architecture
in decolonization and in the contemporary figuration of the so-called Global South. But we are
eager to add other topics to this list, which tackle cultural, social, economic, technological,
environmental and/or political issues.

Fellowships are open to scholars, practitioners, thinkers, researchers, writers, and curators who
intend to pursue interdisciplinary research on architecture, urbanism, landscape, and design at
the CCA. We welcome applications from individuals at various stages of their career and from
various fields of study, including the history, theory, and criticism of architecture, urbanism, and
landscape, as well as art history, design theory, anthropology, geography, sociology, literature,
philosophy, cultural studies, media studies, and science and technology studies. Although
proposed research projects may rely extensively on the CCA Collection as a primary source, we
are interested above all in original and significant projects that develop both critical readings and
creative works, writings, or designs.

As of 2019 the Research Fellowship Program replaces the Visiting Scholars Program, which the
CCA had offered since 1997.
The application process for 2020 is now closed. The open call for 2021 will be published next
summer.

For updates on the Research Fellowship Program, please subscribe to the CCA newsletter.
As an international research institution, the CCA operates in the spaces between architectural
culture at large and academic discourse through exhibitions, publications, public events, and
research programs. The CCA’s Research Fellowship Program supports innovative, advanced
research to foster new kinds of intellectual exchange that spark long-term dialogue and debate.

At the CCA we are working on a broad range of topics relevant to architectural discourse today.
Current topics of particular interest include: the digital turn in processes of design and
communication in architecture; the transformation of the profession or discipline and its
relationship to society past and present; the role of photography role within architectural visual
culture, especially in the digital era; the relationship of architecture to the environment, in terms
of the ways architects use, impact, and understand nature; and the historical role of architecture
in decolonization and in the contemporary figuration of the so-called Global South. But we are
eager to add other topics to this list, which tackle cultural, social, economic, technological,
environmental and/or political issues.

Fellowships are open to scholars, practitioners, thinkers, researchers, writers, and curators who
intend to pursue interdisciplinary research on architecture, urbanism, landscape, and design at
the CCA. We welcome applications from individuals at various stages of their career and from
various fields of study, including the history, theory, and criticism of architecture, urbanism, and
landscape, as well as art history, design theory, anthropology, geography, sociology, literature,
philosophy, cultural studies, media studies, and science and technology studies. Although
proposed research projects may rely extensively on the CCA Collection as a primary source, we
are interested above all in original and significant projects that develop both critical readings and
creative works, writings, or designs.

As of 2019 the Research Fellowship Program replaces the Visiting Scholars Program, which the
CCA had offered since 1997.
The application process for 2020 is now closed. The open call for 2021 will be published next
summer.

For updates on the Research Fellowship Program, please subscribe to the CCA newsletter.
2019 Research Fellows
Esra Akcan
Cornell University
“Intertwined Histories of Seven Other Wonders”

Thomas Daniell
Kyoto University
“Japan at the IAUS”

Jane Hutton
University of Waterloo
“Grubbing, Weeding, Mowing, Breeding: On the Changing Specifications, Technologies, and
Designs for Landscape Maintenance”

Torsten Lange
ETH Zurich
“Queer ecologies of care: LGBT* community spaces between liberation and crisis, 1969–1999”

Sara Stevens
University of British Columbia
“Building Capital: Architectural Practice and Financialization in the 1970s and 1980s”