Three Types of Architectural Educational Strategies (AES) in Sustainable Buildings for Learning Environments in Canada, an article by Jean-Pierre Chupin, Morteza Hazbei and Karl-Antoine Pelchat

Three Types of Architectural Educational Strategies (AES) in Sustainable Buildings for Learning Environments in Canada, an article by Jean-Pierre Chupin, Morteza Hazbei and Karl-Antoine Pelchat This article explores a trend provisionally called “eco-didacticism” observable for nearly 15 years in art, design and architecture. The corpus concentrates on learning centres as buildings meant to diffuse advanced … Read more

Jonathan Haxhe

Jonathan Haxhe is a student in the Bachelor of Communication Sciences at the University of Montreal. He is originally from Belgium and completed a year in Communication and Journalism at the IHECS (Brussels) before starting an international experience. At CRC-ACME and LEAP, he is in charge of a number of communication-related tasks, such as updating ... Read more

“When Boston is not Boston: The useful lies of reconstructive game models” written by Aurélien Catros and Maxime Leblanc, respectively PhD candidates in Architecture at UdeM and McGill

“When Boston is not Boston: The useful lies of reconstructive game models” written by Aurélien Catros and Maxime Leblanc, respectively PhD candidates in Architecture at UdeM and McGill Using qualitative comparative analysis, this article assesses how faithfully the reconstructive game models (RGMs) used in video games simulate historic cities. Employing Kevin Lynch’s concept of imageability, … Read more

WRITING, A PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE? COMPARATIVE APPROACHES OF TWO ARCHITECTS WITH A PEN

Why write fiction when you are an architect? If the role of professionals in architecture is not, a priori, to write stories, some of them have a privileged relationship with literature. This is the case of Sergio Morales, a Quebec architect (co-founder of Chevalier Morales Architectes, a studio based in Montreal) and Pierre Blondel, a ... Read more