Community Spotlight: Paloma Castonguay-Rufino (2024 Scholar)

Paloma Castonguay-Rufino is an individualized Ph.D. student in architecture at the Université de Montréal. After obtaining a Bachelor's and Master's degree in architecture, she completed a professional internship specializing in the conservation of built heritage. Her doctoral research lies at the intersection of environmental, heritage and social considerations. In a reflexive approach, she takes a critical look at the notion of industrial heritage across Canada, through the analysis of contemporary projects that reuse urban industrial remains.

She recently published an article in the Canadian Competitions Catalogue entitled, “A Contemporary Reading of a Heritage Building.” This article explores the complexity of conservation through reuse, highlighting the international architectural competition organized by the PHI institution for its new contemporary art pavilion in Montreal.  

Click here to read her article.