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More than 3000 award-winning projects – designed by more than 1,000 architectural, urban planning and landscape architecture firms in Canada – first recorded in an Atlas of Research on Exemplarity in Architecture (AREA) At the initiative of the Canada Research Chair in Architecture, Competitions and (…)

This is Not a Nest: Transcultural Metaphors and the Paradoxical Politics of International Competitions Jean-Pierre Chupin, Université de MontréalPublished in: Footprint, Delft Architectural Theory Journal, issue #26, Vol 14, n1, Spring 2020. Pages: 63-82 Abstract Although the architecture competition has been analysed through a number of rhetorical lenses, the recurring production of transcultural metaphors, particularly ... Read more

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This book presents a collection of data and real-life cases in support of the idea that young offices of architects and planners are able to match or exceed the capabilities of their most experienced competitors when it comes to creating high-quality built environments for the public. The argument is made in (…)

La Chaire de recherche du Canada en architecture, concours et médiations de l’excellence (CRC-ACME) sollicite des candidatures pour des bourses doctorales. Chaque bourse sera accompagnée d’un contrat de recherche et soutiendra une étudiante ou un étudiant dans la réalisation d’un projet (…)

Cet AGENDA DES PRIX CANADIENS en architecture et dans les domaines de l’environnement bâti est un chantier en cours. Les informations ont été rassemblées par les chercheurs de la Chaire de recherche du Canada en architecture, concours et médiations de l’excellence (CRC-ACME). 

The bilingual AREA platform is accessible at: https://architecture-excellence.org Montreal, November 20, 2019 – Raymond Lalonde, Vice-Chancellor for Relations with Alumni, Partnerships and Philanthropy, Raphaël Fischler, Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Design, and Virginie Portes, Director of Funded Research at the Université de Montréal’s Office of Research, Development and Valorization inaugurated, on Tuesday, November 19th, ... Read more

Journal of Sustainability Research (Open access journal of Hapres) special issue: "Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design: Alternative Theories for Qualitative Comparisons" Since the turn of the century, theories and practices of sustainable architecture and urban design have been characterized by increasingly normative grids, such as standards, checklists, certifications, etc. As imperative as these normative grids ... Read more

Nathalie Roy, Minister of Culture and Communications and Minister Responsible for the French Language, and Andrée Laforest, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Announce the Beginning of the Work to Provide Québec with a Strategy Quebecois architecture. To this end, the Ministry of Culture and Communications (MCC) has invited the Ordre des architectes du Québec ... Read more