Marie-Paule Macdonald, OAQ

Marie-Paule Macdonald, OAQ
Associate Professor

Biography

Marie-Paule Macdonald studied architecture in Nova Scotia, obtaining a Bachelor of Architecture from Dalhousie University. She studied urbanism in Paris and obtained a post-professional graduate degree from University of Paris VIII, studying with urban theorist Françoise Choay. She is a registered architect, member of the Order of Architects of Québec. Recent teaching includes design studios addressing architecture, urbanism and sound, graduate studios on abstraction, and seminars on architecture, philosophy and urbanism. The Journal Scapegoat published her article ‘Trajectories and Territories’ in 2017. Reaktion Books, London, UK published her book Jimi Hendrix Soundscapes in 2015. Her book rockspaces was published by Art Metropole in Toronto in 2000. Other publications include Wild in the Streets, a collaborative project with Dan Graham, published in 1994. She participated in the organization of, and exhibited work in collective exhibitions and workshops such as Man-size, in 1995, and Anti-loft, in 2000, in Toronto, and Rockraum in Frankfurt in 1994.

Research Interests

  • Contemporary architectural and urban design

  • Theory and practice

  • Landscape architecture

  • Urbanism

  • Contemporary sculpture and their inter-relations

  • soundscapes

Scholarly Research

Education

  • 1986, Post Professional Degree:

  • DIPLOME d'ETUDES SUPERIEURES SPECIALISEES Urbanism / Architecture, INSTITUT FRANCAIS d'URBANISME, UNIVERSITE de PARIS VIII VINCENNES SAINT DENIS, France

Teaching*

  • ARCH 292 - Design Studio
    • Taught in 2023
  • ARCH 392 - Design Studio
    • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
  • ARCH 393 - Option Design Studio
    • Taught in 2020, 2021
  • ARCH 684 - Special Topics in Architecture
    • Taught in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
  • ARCH 692 - Thesis Research and Design Studio I
    • Taught in 2022

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

Selected/Recent Publications

  • Macdonald, Marie-Paule, African Cinema and Urbanism. London: Anthem 2024

  • Macdonald, Marie-Paule, Jimi Hendrix Soundscapes. London: Reaktion Books 2016

  • Macdonald, Marie-Paule, ‘Dialogues with the Transformative City’, exhibition catalogue, monograph on the work of Lapointe Magne Architectes Associés Montréal: Maison de l’Architecture de Québec, published in French as ‘Dialogues avec la Ville en Transformation’, architects Lapointe Magne Associates, Montréal: Maison de l’Architecture du Québec 2012

  • Macdonald, Marie-Paule, rockspaces. Toronto: Art Metropole 2000

  • Macdonald, Marie-Paule, Pop-up cities, Etc. Montreal, 18, 2009

  • Macdonald, Marie-Paule, Glass Perception, Parkett, 2003. 105

  • Macdonald, Marie-Paule, London Flat, Manhattan Studio, Center18: Music in Architecture - Architecture in Music, 2014. 168

  • Macdonald, Marie-Paule, After Branding—A Lively Downtown?, Curating Architecture and the City, London and New York: Routledge-Taylor & Francis 2009. 221

  • Macdonald, Marie-Paule, Emptiness and Imagination, Informal Architecture, 2009, 106

  • Macdonald, Marie-Paule, Wild in Streets. Ghent, Belgium: Dirk Imschoot 1994. collaborative artists’ book with Dan Graham

Graduate studies