Summary
Ewan Branda is an architectural historian, educator, and former software engineer and registered architect with 13 years of professional experience who now teaches at Université de Montréal and McGill after 25 years in Los Angeles. His work bridges design, computation, and critical theory—exploring architecture’s role in the information society, late-modern technocracy, and how AI can reshape representation and production. A PhD graduate from UCLA with an SMArchS from MIT and a professional B.Arch from Waterloo, he has held leadership roles including associate dean and graduate chair at Woodbury and served as Multimedia Reviews Editor for JSAH. He has a track record of building digital tools and digital libraries for architectural history and led software-architecture projects for cultural and scholarly organizations, reflecting a rare blend of academic scholarship and hands-on technical practice.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
S.M.Arch.S., Design and Computation, S.M.Arch.S., Design and Computation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PhD, Critical Studies in Architecture, PhD, Critical Studies in Architecture at University of California, Los Angeles
B.Arch., Professional architecture degree, B.Arch., Professional architecture degree at University of Waterloo