RESEARCH & FACULTY
David T. Fortin
David T. Fortin
Assistant Professor705.675.1151 ext. 7207
85 Elm Street, Rm 219
Sudbury Campus
Born and raised throughout Alberta and Saskatchewan, David is a member of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, a LEED accredited professional, and a registered architect in the province of Alberta. He has worked on various commercial and residential projects throughout Western Canada, gaining experience with firms such as GEC Architects and McKinley Burkart Architects in Calgary. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in architectural design, history and theory at Montana State University and the University of Edinburgh. This has recently included systems-based courses studying farmworker housing shortages in Washington State and design studios focusing on urban and rural conditions in Kenya. David has also led courses in various community design-build projects using straw bale construction in Kenya and Montana with the Northern Cheyenne community. He is a member of the Metis Nation of Canada.
- B.A., University of Saskatchewan
- M.Arch, University of Calgary
- Ph.D, University of Edinburgh
Dr. Fortin's research focuses on notions of home and place with a special interest in the role of the future within this realm. He is the authour of Architecture and Science-Fiction Film: Philip K. Dick and the Spectacle of Home, has contributed a chapter to Writing the Modern City: Literature, Architecture, Modernity, and has spoken at various conferences on systems-based and informal thinking in design. He is currently researching indigenous science-fiction as an alternative way to think about design.
- Teaching Award of Excellence, Montana State University (student nominated)
- Named a Distinguished Alumnus by the University of Calgary Architecture Program
- PhD nominated for RIBA Outstanding Research Award
