Search Results for:

SURVEY VERSUS COMPETITION: SIMULACRUM AND DEMOCRACY

  About the cancellation of the competition for the memorial to Canada’s mission in Afghanistan Survey versus Competition: Simulacrum and Democracy September 11, 2023   Jean-Pierre Chupin, Canada Research Chair in Architecture, Competitions and Mediations of Excellence, Université de Montréal (www.crc.umontreal.ca ) Jacques White, architect, retired professor at Université Laval, trainer and professional advisor for … Read more

PARADOXES OF HERITAGE AWARD

Evolution of award titles related to heritage issues in Quebec (2009-2019) What should we think of awards of excellence for heritage transformations, particularly in the Quebec context?  According to the recurrence of this type of distinction in the contemporary landscape of architectural awards, heritage would be one of the canonical categories of architectural excellence. Despite ... Read more

WHEN THE “TOP OF THE ROCK” RECEIVES AN AWARD: EXCELLENCE IN ALTERING THE VIEW

Rockefeller Center Vintage Travel Brochure (2018) “The city architect can no more afford to neglect the roofs that continually spread out below him than the country architect can afford to neglect the planting about a house.”(1) There are only three observation decks on the top of skyscrapers in New York—in chronological order, the Empire State ... Read more

WHO ARE THE CLIENTS IN AN ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION PROCESS?

Jury of the Beaubourg Plateau competition, 1971. From left to right: Oscar Niemeyer, Frank Francis, Jean Prouvé, Emile Aillaud, Philip Johnson, and Willem Sandberg A favourite argument of the fiercest opponents of architectural competitions rests on the importance of the listening relationship, even connivance, between the architects and their clients. The competitions would have the ... Read more

UNDERSTANDING “MEDIATIONS OF EXCELLENCE”

"Sisyphus" by Tiziano Vecellio 1548-1549 Madrid. Museo del Prado. In a series of scientific posts inaugurating the Canada Research Chair in Architecture, Competitions and Mediations of Excellence (CRC-ACME) program, we will briefly present — whether in a thousand words or a simple image and its legend — the main terms of our research activities for ... Read more