Erika Brandl Mouton is a Montreal-born architect practicing in Bergen, Norway.
She was trained in France (Clermont-Ferrand) and in Canada (Montreal), where she received a Master degree in Architecture from McGill University in 2015. She compiled office experiences in Montreal and Vienna, where she developed an expertise in representation and formal resolution of community housing and small-scale cultural institutions projects. Erika was an invited teacher at Université de Montréal, McGill University and Confluence Institute in Lyon, where she co-ran undergraduate and graduate studios. Previous to her coming to Norway, Erika worked for five years as a researcher and designer for the Canadian Center for Architecture, with a focus on architectural education and public programming.
Erika is pursuing ongoing exhibition projects relating to vernacular and post-industrial forms in Los Angeles, California, and Bergen, Norway, and collaborates yearly as lecturer at the Montreal International Art Film Festival. Her architectural research seeks potential in the encounter of contemporary design and the historical city, cross-examining notions of ornamental traditions, typologies and digital affect. She is employed at the architecture and planning office 3RW arkitekter.
In addition to her design work, she is currently training in philosophy at the University of Bergen and at Copenhagen University, where she undertook research on property rights and ownership at the Center for Privacy Studies.
AREAS OF SCHOLARSHIP
PHILOSOPHY
Human rights, right to housing, capabilities, environmental philosophy and ecofeminism, existentialism, Richard Rorty.
VISUAL CULTURE
Film studies, cinema and architecture, neorealism, photography, exhibition design, digital media.
URBANISM
Modernity, globalization, postwar urbanization, housing, cultural and public spheres, cities and citizenship.
HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE
Architectural and urban history, architectural representation and gender, Italian postwar modernism, global post-modernism, ornament in architectural practice, domesticity.