Two grants awarded to Aurélien Catros, Ph.D. candidate at UdeM

Under the supervision of professors Jean-Pierre Chupin and Bechara Helal in the Individualized Doctoral Program in Architecture, Aurélien Catros has received two prestigious grants for his thesis: Daniel Arbour and Associates excellence grant Amount: 20 000$CAD (Travel grant for England and Japan) Title of funded topic: “Projection between design models in the era of the … Read more

Conference-debate on the history of architecture schools in France and Quebec

Date: January 31, 2023, 5:30 pm. Location: Amphitheatre 1120, Faculté de l’aménagement, Université de Montréal. On the occasion of the publication in 2022 of L’architecture en ses écoles, une encyclopédie, we welcome Daniel Le Couédic, architect and historian, professor at the University of Western Brittany, and co-director of the book. Around Lucie K. Morisset, professor … Read more

The FRQSC renews LEAP’s team subvention until 2027

The project, entitled Potentials of Architectural Quality: Equity, Sustainability and Cultural Openness, will have Jean-Pierre Chupin (Ph. D.) as team coordinator. The amount of the subvention granted to the LEAP by the FRQSC (support to research teams/university renewal) for this project is $423,420 and will be spread over a 4-year period, thus until 2027! For … Read more

The Rise of Awards in Architecture, a new book edited by Chupin, Cucuzzella and Adamczyk

Summary This book is the first scientific study to focus on awards in architecture and the built environment investigating their exponential growth since the 1980s. The celebration of excellence in architecture and related fields remains a phenomenon on which there is strangely little scientific scrutiny. It is now necessary to take a critical distance to … Read more

Block 2 design competition

Hello, The Canada Research Chair in Architecture, Competitions and Mediations of Excellence having had the honor of being associated with the preparation and implementation of this historic competition, I am pleased to extend to you this invitation to the public presentations of the 6 internationally renowned teams that will take place online on April 11, … Read more

Video of Albena Yaneva’s conference at the University of Montreal in collaboration with IDEAS-BE

[av_video src=’https://vimeo.com/700520935/d95a1eb1ab’ mobile_image=” attachment=” attachment_size=” format=’16-9′ width=’16’ height=’9′ conditional_play=” id=” custom_class=” template_class=” av_uid=’av-kyk1vt7j’ sc_version=’1.0′] Public Conference (in video):   Architecture after COVID: A Latourian Perspective This conference was presented by Albena Yaneva, Professor of Architectural Theory at the University of Manchester and Director of the Manchester Architecture Research Group [MARG]. Date and time: April 5, 2022 … Read more

Conference: Post-Covid Architecture (A Latourian Perspective)

This conference about post-pandemic architecture will be held by Albena Yaneva, Professor of Architectural Theory at the University of Manchester and Director of the Manchester Architecture Research Group [MARG].   The COVID-19 pandemic has raised new questions about the interrelationships between architecture, science and society – questions that remained latent in professional practice. Based on … Read more

Jean-Pierre Chupin and Lucie Palombi present doctoral research in architecture.

[av_video src=’https://youtu.be/V8a1kZO1UGk’ mobile_image=” attachment=” attachment_size=” format=’16-9′ width=’16’ height=’9′ conditional_play=” id=” custom_class=” template_class=” av_uid=’av-kyk1vt7j’ sc_version=’1.0′]Reference page for the individualized PhD program in architecture at the Université de Montréal : https://architecture.umontreal.ca/programmes-detudes/phd-individualise-en-architecture/