Laurène Smith

“From business districts almost exclusively reserved for commercial and professional activities, Canadian downtowns are increasingly becoming living spaces. Yet there are few elementary schools, which are essential to inclusive urban development. And for good reason: the traditional model of the single-purpose, low-rise school building, with a large playground at ground level, is at odds with ... Read more

Raising awareness of the issues and principles of universal accessibility in public spaces

Paloma Castonguay-Rufino, an individualized doctoral student in architecture at the Faculty of Environmental Design's School of Architecture, has been selected as a 2024 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar. This year, nearly 450 applications were submitted, from some 40 Canadian universities and 60 universities around the world. Paloma Castonguay-Rufino is an individualized Ph.D. student in architecture ... Read more

DOWNLOAD THE PROGRAM IN PDF FORMAT Principles & Objectives of the 3rd annual SSHRC Partnership Convention on Quality In 2023, we invited all partners and participants to the annual convention of the SSHRC research partnership on Quality hosted by the University of Calgary to report on positive lived experiences in the built environment. It has ... Read more

This book provides an in-depth exploration of the rich and persistent use of analogical thinking in the built environment. Comparing views on the role of analogies and metaphors by prominent voices in architecture and related disciplines from the 17th century to the present, the book shows how the “analogical world of the project” is revealed as a wide-open field of creative and cognitive interactions.

Jean-Pierre Chupin is invited to Radio Canada's Tout Terrain (Janic Tremblay) to reflect on the current state of affairs and the derivatives of Le Corbusier's concepts of architecture and the city in Chandigarh, India. On the occasion of the Festival international du film sur l'art (FIFA) in Montreal, the film The Power of Utopia - ... Read more

The City of Montreal has selected the Canada Research Chair in Architecture for research into the lived experience of quality by users of public buildings. Jean-Pierre Chupin, Bechara Helal and Carmela Cucuzzella will develop a protocol for collecting lived experiences with doctoral students: Firdous Nizar, Paloma Castonguay-Rufino, Yolene Handabaka, Shantanu Biswas Linkon, Cyrille Tchango Ngamaleu ... Read more

Mandana Bafghinia, a doctoral student in cotutelle between Université de Montréal and Université Lyon 2, under the co-direction of Jean-Pierre Chupin and Manuel Appert, defended her thesis: The Skyscraper's Summit, as a Beacon and a Viewing Platform: New York, Paris, Montreal, Shanghai December 14th, 2023 Thesis directors: Université de Montréal: Professor Jean-Pierre Chupin, Architecture Université ... Read more

Mandana Bafghinia and Jean-Pierre Chupin, assisted by master's student Conor DeSantis, publish a report funded by the Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitats   To discover the maps: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5dd6e81456e04204af90a3c209dfd76b   To consult the report: Bafghinia, M., Chupin, J.-P., Skyscrapers as a Complex Response to Rising Waters: Resilience and Adaptability. Report summarizing the result of ... Read more