I am an architectural designer, researcher, and occasional writer based in Tiohti:áke (Montréal), Canada.

I am interested in storytelling and imagemaking as a diasporic process of rebuilding—particularly of the inaccessible, the non-existent, or the no-longer-existent architectures inherited through a collective memory.

Within my variable works, I see a reciprocal relationship between the politics of spatial design, the speculations of visual representation, the ethnography of research, and the intimacy of writing. I am always looking to collaborate on new projects that keep me alternating between these spaces and values.

Feel free to reach out, I would love to chat:  zaventitizian[at]gmail[dot]com

TITLE

FOR/WITH

TYPE

YEAR

   TITLE   

   FOR/WITH   

   TYPE   

   YEAR   
    ︎︎︎ Warm Waters
2020

An essay co-written by Alexandra Pereira-Edwards, Misca Birklein-Lagassé, and myself for Canadian Architect’s Backpage feature. The writing looked at a single case from our Toward Unsettling research project: the indoor swimming pool in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. The 30 year-old pool closed early for the season pending an expensive repair, one of many such cases in the arctic territory and indicative of the more complex, nuanced, and underlying issues of this specific architectural typology in Inuit Nunangat.

© Zaven Titizian 2023

© Zaven Titizian 2023