Rebecca Loewen is a practicing architect and a PhD Candidate in architectural design at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL (VIVA/defense 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 in Architectural Design, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, completion March 2025
MPhil, University College London, 2017
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
Principal, 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 House, Winnipeg, Manitoba
2017 Metropolitan Kiwanis Courts, Winnipeg, Manitoba (80 000 sq ft; $18 M) (ft3)
2013- Dauphin Regional Health Centre MRI + ER, Dauphin, Manitoba (15 000 sq ft; $15 M) (ft3)
2011 Buhler Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba (50 000 sq ft; $12 M) (DIN + DPA + PSA)
2009 Harvest Manitoba Food Distribution Centre, 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 (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, 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