Rebecca Loewen is a practicing architect, founder of Rebecca Loewen Architect and a PhD Candidate in architectural design at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL (2024 completion). 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. Rebecca is a founding member of the Film Place Collective, an interdisciplinary research collective working in curation and publication.

PhD in Architectural Design, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, completion 2024

Architecture Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, 2012 - 2013

MArch, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, 2008

BA, French Studies, University of Winnipeg, 2004

Design Tutor, University of Manitoba, 2024 -

Design Tutor, University of Manitoba, 2021 - 2022

Architect and Founder, Rebecca Loewen Architect, 2017 -

Design Tutor, Bartlett School of Architecture, 2016 - 2017

Technology Lecturer, Department of Architecture, University of Manitoba, 2016

Architect, ft3 Architecture 2015 - 2016

Architectural Intern, DIN Projects, Winnipeg, 2008 - 2014

 

Buildings

2022- I-L House, Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba

2021- S-G Church-House, Friedensfeld, Manitoba

2021- Millview House, Steinbach, Manitoba

2020 452 Willow House, Willow Island, Manitoba

2019 W-L Cottage, Willow Island, Manitoba

2019 W Cottage, Gimli, Manitoba

2016         Health Sciences Centre Adult Inpatient Redevelopment Feasibility Study, Winnipeg Manitoba (ft3)

2015         220 Kingston Row House, Winnipeg, Manitoba

2017         Metropolitan Kiwanis Courts, Winnipeg, Manitoba (60 000 sq ft; $18 M) (ft3)

2013-        Dauphin Regional Health Centre MRI + ER, Dauphin, Manitoba (15 000 sq ft; $15 M) (ft3)

2011         Plug In ICA + U of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba (50 000 sq ft; $12 M) (DIN + DPA + PSA)

2009         Winnipeg Harvest Food Distribution Ctr, Winnipeg, Manitoba (40 000 sq ft; $6 M) (DIN + PSA)

 

Exhibitions

2017 Royal Academy, Film Making Space, London

2017 Architecture Film Festival London, Film+Place+Architecture, London

2017 Goodenough College, London

2016          Nanaimo Art Gallery, Trusses, Nanaimo 

2015          Esker Foundation, Just For Staying Together, Calgary

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

2009          The Roadshow: Architectural Landscapes of Canada, Cross-Canada Tour (DIN)

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, Because of Solitude. Stuttgart: Akademie Schloss Solitude Press

Prizes and Fellowships

2016         London Goodenough Association of Canada Academic Scholarship

2016         Goodenough College PhD Scholarship

2016         Canada Council for the Arts Grant

2012         Akademie Schloss Solitude Architecture Fellowship, Stuttgart

2009         Canada Council for the Arts Prix de Rome in Architecture for Emerging Practitioners, U of Manitoba Nominee

2009         Manitoba Association of Architects Medal for Best Comprehensive Design Thesis

2006         Academic Excellence in Architecture Award, U of Manitoba

2006         Rethinking and Redefining Social Housing in the City Centre, LEAP, U de Montreal