Canada Research Chair in
Architecture, Competitions and Quality (CRC-ACQUA)
Lecture by Antoine Picon Date : Monday, August 18th at 5.30pm Location : Université de Montréal, Faculté de l’Aménagement, Amphi 1120 Antoine Picon is an engineer, architect and historian of technology at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. He is a world-renowned authority on theoretical issues relating to the built environment, and the author of some thirty books … 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
Following public consultation and job posting, two postdoctoral researchers have been recruited to assist the SSHRC Quality in the Built Environment (QBE) partnership coordination team. Maria Patricia Farfan Sopo, a new doctor from McGill University, is funded by the partnership’s SSHRC budget, while Morteza Hazbei, a new doctor from Concordia University, is funded by the … Read more
Recordings of the 4 sessions of the SSHRC Quality Partnership’s second online convention are now freely available. The research partnership is entitled Quality in Canada’s Built Environment: Roadmaps to Equity, Social Value and Sustainability, and brings together 14 universities, 70 researchers and nearly 70 institutions, cities and citizen groups until 2027. This second meeting … Read more
The following four doctoral students in architecture each receive a $12,000 scholarship for 2023-2024 from the Canada Research Chair in Architecture, Competitions and Mediations of Excellence, held by Jean-Pierre Chupin. Shantanu Biswas Linkon, architect originally from Bangladesh Paloma Castonguay-Rufino, Canadian architect of Spanish origin Yolene Handabaka Ames, Canadian architect originally from Peru Cyrille Jérôme Tchango … Read more
The jury responsible for evaluating doctoral candidates submitted to the 2023-2024 scholarship competition, made up of professors from Quebec universities and BAnQ specialists, has awarded Lucie Palombi a $12,500 doctoral scholarship for her project entitled “Textualité et projet en architecture – Approche interprétative et comparative d’écrits rédigés par des architectes québécois”. Lucie is completing her … Read more
Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada until 2027, a major research partnership on quality in the built environment brings together – for the first time – 14 universities, 70 researchers and 68 public and private organizations at the municipal, provincial and national levels. The total value of this partnership will … Read more
“Survey versus Competition: Simulacrum and Democracy” – Open letter co-signed by Jean-Pierre Chupin and Jacques White about the cancellation of the competition for the National Memorial to Canada’s Mission in Afghanistan. When it comes to judging art or architecture projects, an online survey is a “mockery of democracy” that can’t replace either a design competition … Read more