Roger Mullin

In 2003 Roger accepted a teaching position at Dalhousie University School of Architecture where he is currently a full-time tenured faculty member. Roger’s research interests investigate the materiality and imperatives of buildings, infrastructures and urban form; with a focus on coastal landscapes in the North Atlantic and areas of the Adriatic and Mediterranean Seas. This work is bracketed by concurrent research in methods of representation and design-build. Developments of these activities are carried forward through communitypartnerships and field-work.

Roger has been commissioned to extend his drawing practice through the delivery of seminars in Croatia for the Norwegian firm, Eggen Arktekter as well as continuing education courses in partnership with Canadian artist, Mary Pratt the for 2012 Royal Architectural Insitute of Canada festival, and later for the Newfoundland provincial Architects Association.

In 2013, Roger was selected from a pool of 700 international applicants as the 2013 Iver Jaks Artist In Residence. The two month work period resulted in a solo exhibition at the Sami Centre for Contemporary Art. The collaborative project. ‘Le Theatre Petit Cercle’ was awarded the Lieutenant Governor General of Nova Scotia Masterwork Arts Award, the Associate Collegiate Schools of Architecture’s Best Collaborative Practice Award, and the Design Exchange / National Post’s, Gold Award for Best Public Commercial Building in Canada.

In 2023-24, Roger and students worked with the North American Indigenous Games; collaborating to produce spaces and structures to support youth athletes. Roger was a keynote speaker at the Atmosphere 15_LAND + conference at the School of Landscape Architecture, Winnipeg, Manitoba and was Visiting Professor of Architecture at the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2024 where he delivered a comprehensive graduate level studio. Along with colleague, Michael Faciejew, Roger will Co-Chair the upcoming Teachers Conference, CONFLICT : RESOLUTION (Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE). The conference asks, how conflict situations can be reframed as sites of design, and what new structures for resolution are possible?

Early in his teaching career, Roger was profiled in Promising Young Architects, Making Their Mark, in the National Building News Magazine and later selected as one of eight critical architects to participate in a nationwide lecture series and exhibition titled: ‘The Roadshow: Architectural Landscapes of Canada’. He has practiced Architecture in Canada, USA and Germany and has lectured in the United States, Africa, Norway,Iceland, Ireland and Wales. His work has been exhibited internationally and published with OnSite magazine, Building Magazine, the Journal of Architectural Education and the Welsh journal, MADE. Recently, Roger’s work was showcased in Innate Terrain, a book about Canadian Landscape Architecture and edited by Alissa North and in Landscape Architecture Frontiers / Experiments and Processes, Volume 10 / Issue 6/ December 2022, an article, Bhavika Sharma*, Alissa North.