Rebecca Loewen is a practicing architect and PhD Candidate in architectural design at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL (VIVA/defence scheduled March 2025). Rebecca’s research is practice-led and draws from architectural design, art practice, art history and theory, filmmaking and architectural history and theory. Her PhD research applies Marcel Duchamp’s concept of inframince to spaces in architecture, performance and writing.
PhD Candidate in Architectural Design, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, VIVA/defence March 2025
MPhil, University College London, 2017
Architecture Fellow, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, 2012 - 2013
MArch, University of Manitoba, 2008
BA, French Studies, University of Winnipeg, 2004
Instructor, Department of Architecture, University of Manitoba, 2024 -
Instructor, Department of Architecture, University of Manitoba, 2021 - 2022
Principal, Rebecca Loewen Architect, 2016 -
Design Tutor, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, 2016 - 2017
Instructor, Department of Architecture, University of Manitoba, 2016
Architect, ft3 Architecture, Winnipeg, 2015 - 2016
Architectural Intern, DIN Projects, Winnipeg, 2008 - 2014
Student Architectural Intern, David Penner Architect, Winnipeg, 2007
Buildings
2024- Millview House, Steinbach, Manitoba
2023- Kokomo House, Friedensfeld, Manitoba
2022- I-L House, Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba
2021 Millview Cottage, Steinbach, Manitoba
2020 452 Willow House, Willow Island, Manitoba
2019 428 Willow House, Willow Island, Manitoba
2019 W Cottage, Gimli, Manitoba
2016 220 Kingston House, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Exhibitions
2017 Royal Academy, Film Making Space, London
2017 Architecture Film Festival London, Film+Place+Architecture, London
2017 Goodenough College, Traversing Spaces, London
2016 Nanaimo Art Gallery, Trusses, Nanaimo
2015 Esker Foundation, Just For Staying Together, Calgary (Solo Exhibition)
2014 Centre Pompidou, The Story of a Different Thought, 16 mm film by Charlotte Moth
2013 Akademie Schloss Solitude, Architecture And, Stuttgart
2013 Lange Nacht der Museen, Stuttgart
2006 Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Golden City, Winnipeg
Publications and Papers
2022 ‘Conversations About Inframince With Paul Matisse’, Research Conversations, The Bartlett School of Architecture, London
2022 ‘12/13/19/20’, Remote Practices: Architecture at a Distance, London: Lund Humphries (Film Place Collective)
2019 Water, Co-editor, Film Place Collective
2014 Concavity (‘Concave Door’), Because of Solitude. Stuttgart: Akademie Schloss Solitude Press