Eric Nay

Dr. Eric Nay is a Canadian American architect, scholar, and Associate Professor at OCAD University in Toronto and lecturer in human geography at Mount Allison University in the Canadian Maritimes. He holds degrees from the University of Kentucky (B.Arch), Cornell University (M.Arch), and the University of Toronto (PhD), and has practiced architecture in New York, Chicago, and California. His teaching includes architectural history and theory, environmental design, and interdisciplinary studio practice. He has taught architecture and design studios and history and theory courses for nearly three decades at more than a dozen universities, colleges and cultural institutions across Asia, the Middle East, the UK and the Americas, including the University of Toronto, the University of California at Davis, Cornell University, the American University of Sharjah (UAE), et. al, Nay’s research is interdisciplinary, focusing on modern architecture as cultural heritage, decolonization, and the intersections of sustainability, globalization, and social justice. His work also explores geopolitics, spatial justice, and heritage frameworks such as UNESCO World Heritage, alongside critical studies of figures like Le Corbusier, contributing to postcolonial discourse in contemporary architecture and design. He has published more than thirty peer-reviewed articles, delivered more than forty conference papers, authored multiple book chapters, and has participated in editing two books, in addition to producing numerous digital publications that include SPOOL (Netherlands); ARQ (Chile); ICOMOS (Germany); docomomo (US); The Humanities and Technology Review (US); INTBAU (Italy); Open House International (UK); The Journal of the Constructed Environment (Canada); Alternatives Journal (Canada) and Folk, Knowledge, Place (China). His scholarship continues to contribute to architectural theory, critical heritage studies, and contemporary debates on conservation, pedagogy, and global design practice.