Canada Research Chair in
Architecture, Competitions and Mediations of Excellence
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.
After evaluating the quality of the research, scientific writing and oral presentation during the two-day conference, the members of the Academy’s prize jury selected the winner of the prize for the best paper. This jury was chaired by Paul Quintrand, Former President of the Academy of Architecture (…)
Tiphaine Abenia, doctoral student in Architecture at the University of Montreal, wins the 2020 co-tutorship thesis award. Awarded by the French Consulate in Montreal, this title recognizes the best doctoral theses produced under a Franco-Quebec co-supervision agreement.