Christopher Alton
Contract Instructor
ChristopherAlton@cunet.carleton.ca
Christopher Alton is a researcher and designer with a focus on extractive infrastructures and landscapes. He is currently completing a PhD in Architecture at Carleton University, and he has taught courses at the University of Waterloo, Toronto Metropolitan University, and with the Centre for Biocultural Landscape and Seascape (CBLS) at the University of Sassari. With OPSYS Landscape Infrastructure Lab, he was project manager and lead researcher for the Canadian Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture. He is a co-founder of the Beyond Extraction collective.
Publications
Alton, Christopher. “How to Live With Stones.” Journal of Architectural Education (1984) 79, no. 1 (2025): 99–107.
Alton, Christopher, Émélie Desrochers-Turgeon, and Zannah Mae Matson, eds. Special Volume: Architecture and Extraction. Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada 49, no. 1 (2024).
Education
Master in Design: Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology, Harvard Graduate School of Design (2014)
Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning, Toronto Metropolitan University (2011)
Recent Courses
ARCU 3100 The Morphology of the City
ARCH 5201 Graduate Seminar 2: Contemporary Theoretical Perspectives in Architecture
ARCH 4105 Theories of Landscape Design