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All Governor General’s Medals in Architecture in Canada gathered on a map and a visual gallery
The Atlas of Research on Exemplarity in Architecture and the Built Environment, in collaboration with the Canada Council for the Arts and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, presents all buildings and places recipient of a Governor General Medal in Architecture since 1982 on a interactive map and in a visual gallery.
How to make the waiting for the bus more attractive and generate more community interest? New open access book
The result of an international competition, Reimagining Waiting for the Bus is a synthesis of the best ideas to stimulate citizen discussion and community group engagement around the improvement of small urban environments connected to bus stops.
Aurélien Catros wins the Ray Lifchez Berkeley Prize of IASTE with his paper on reconstructive game models
Aurélien Catros, a doctoral student at UdeM, and Maxime Leblanc, a doctoral student at McGill, won the prize for the best article written by students or junior researchers. This article focuses on video games and seeks to determine whether they faithfully reproduce cities as they were historically.
Announcement of the 5 winning teams of the international student competition launched by IDEAS-BE and CRC-ACME
This international student competition invited to think about approaches to renew the interest in public transport during a global health crisis. Out of 81 student teams from 16 countries and 4 different continents, the jury chose to award 5 projects and 2 honorable mentions.
All the awards attributed by Canadian Architect magazine since 1968 gathered on a single map
The Atlas of Research on Exemplarity in Architecture and the Built Environment, in collaboration with Canadian Architect magazine, presents all the projects, buildings and places awarded since 1968 on a single interactive map and in a visual gallery of over 500 items.
New article in Sustainability about architectural education strategies in sustainable buildings in Canada
Is it possible to teach lessons through formal language and architectural aesthetic features? Jean-Pierre Chupin, Morteza Hazbei and Karl-Antoine Pelchat looked into this question and elaborated many reflections on this subject in this new article published in the journal Sustainability (2021, 3, 8166).
An international student competition launched by IDEAS-BE (Concordia University) and CRC-ACME (UdeM)
Public transportation was significantly affected during the pandemic. How can we renew the pleasure of public transportation following the decline in ridership experienced in the last year? How can we redesign the spaces and places of public transportation for encouraging the use of public transit?
Lucie Palombi, PhD student, discusses the “City Dreamers” documentary with Phyllis Lambert and Joseph Hillel
As part of its Docu-Conferences, the Université de Montréal Alumni and Donors Network virtually hosted filmmaker Joseph Hillel, architect Phyllis Lambert and doctoral student Lucie Palombi from the Université de Montréal’s Faculté de l’aménagement, for a period of exchange.
Architecture in the primary school environment. Three seminars on new elementary schools in Quebec.
Architecture plays an important role in the education of young people. For example, the spatial configuration of a classroom can strongly influence the diversity of educational approaches. These themes were discussed during this round table with the teams of the 5 competitions organized by LabÉcole.