Canada Research Chair in
Architecture, Competitions and Mediations of Excellence
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.
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).
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?
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 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.
Lucie Palombi, doctoral student in architecture at UdeM, reflects on the role of literature and fiction in the world of architecture. why write fiction when you are an architect? Is writing a function of the designer or a side activity? Are there juxtapositions or collisions between architecture and literature?
Do video games such as Assassin’s Creed faithfully reproduce cities as they were historically? A question that Aurélien Catros and Maxime Leblanc, doctoral students in architecture, have answered in their article on reconstructive game models.
After spending many months working remotely, students working on the Canadian Competitions Catalogue (CCC) and the Research Atlas on Exemplarity in Architecture and the Built Environment (AREA) finally have the chance to work in the CRC-ACME laboratories again.