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Evan Pavka

Evan Pavka

Assistant Professor
EducationBID (Hons.), MArch

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Evan Pavka is interested in the interrelations between power, memory, gender, sexuality, media and the built environment. These investigations often manifest through various forms of writing and publishing that examine emerging and historical works as part of a spectrum to weigh upon the present. His writings on art, architecture, design and contemporary culture have appeared in various popular and academic platforms including Azure, AnInterior, The Architect’s Newspaper, Article, Canadian Art, Canadian Interiors, DAMN, Disc, Field, Icon, idea journal, Inflection, Lunch, Pidgin, Plat, Pool, NUVO and -SITE, among others. His creative and scholarly work has been presented in Banff, Brighton, Chicago, Detroit, Gimpo, Montreal, Ottawa, Oxford, Toronto, San Francisco, Stockholm and Vancouver. He currently serves as Associate Editor of Interiors: Design/Architecture/Culture and routinely contributes to national and international journals.

  • History and Theory
  • Memory, Gender and Sexuality
  • Contemporary Design Discourse
  • Writing and Editing

Selected Publications

Book Chapters

  • Pavka, E. “Infested Interiors.” Upkeep: Maintenance and Repair in Adaptive Interiors. Routledge, forthcoming 2025. 
  • Pavka, E. “Liquid Interiors.” Interior Ecologies. HEAD – Genève/Institute for Postnatural Studies, forthcoming 2025. 
  • Pavka, E. “Soft Objects” in Anderson, J. and Weinthal, L., eds. Digital Fabrication in Interior Design: Body, Object, Enclosure. New York: Routledge, 2021,100-108.
  • Pavka, E. “Woof,” in Giliand, C. et. al., ed. Lunch 13: Mischief. San Francisco: Applied Research + Design Publishing, 2019, 68-75.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

  • Pavka, E. “Monumental Dreams.” LA+: Memory. Forthcoming, 2026.
  • Pavka, E., and Busch, B. “Scans, Residues, Misrecognition and Other Materialities of Loss.” react/review:  a responsive journal for art & architecture vol 5. Forthcoming, 2025.
  • Pavka, E. “Nonmonogamous Interiors,” Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture vol 12, no.1 (2023): 125-148.
  • Pavka, E. “How Not to Forget: The Speculative Interior as Apparatus of Memory,” IDEA Journal 19, no.1 (2022): 138-162.
  • Pavka, E. “From the Closet to the Grave,” Field Journal vol 7, no.1 (2017): 175-187.

Journal Articles

  • Pavka, E. “The Girls and Their Church.” PLAT vol 12 (2024): 32-37.
  • Pavka, E. “Feeling-Building.” Pidgin vol 31 (2023): 36-42.
  • Pavka, E, “Even Closer.” DISC vol 2 (2023): 170-178.
  • Pavka, E. “Record of Rubble.” Inflection vol 6 (2022): 8-11.
  • Pavka E. “Queens of Ohio.” POOL vol 7 (2022): 48-51. 
  • Pavka, E. “Hollows, Voids and Other Openings.” Article vol 27 (2021): 9-13.