Stephan Kowal is a Ph.D. candidate in architecture at Université de Montréal, under the direction of Prof. Alessandra Ponte. He is recipient of the J. Armand Bombardier Scholarship Award (SSHRC) for his doctoral studies, on the relationship between architecture and cartography at the dawn of the digital era. He received his Master of Architecture diploma from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in Los Angeles. Since 2003, he has been teaching representation and architectural design in the School of Architecture at Université de Montréal.Stephan Kowal has published “The Cartographatron – Between Media and Architecture: McLuhan, Giedion, Tyrwhitt, and Doxiadis” in Cartographies of Place: Navigating the Urban, edited by Michael Darroch and Janine Marchessault (McGill-Queen’s Press, 2014); “Lignes de désir, flux et mouvements: Le Cartographatron 1959-1963”, in in situ_de visu_in motu: Architecture, cinéma et arts technologique. Nouveaux enjeux de la pensée des territoires contemporains, edited by Irena Latek, Sophie Paviol, Clotilde Simond and Françoise Very (Éditions Infolio, 2014); “Cartographie: entre le cinema et l’architecture” in Cinéma, Architecture, Dispositif, edited by Elena Biserna and Precious Brown (Campanotto Editore, 2011) and “Guerre, architecture et nouvelles images” in Warchitecture, edited by with Jean-Louis Cohen and Stephan Kowal (School of Architecture, l’Université de Montréal, 2011.