During a ceremony held on April 23, Lucie Palombi was awarded the very first Geneviève-Bazin Fellowship, created to honor the memory of the one who set up what would become the Rare Books Library. and special collections (BLRCS) of the Université de Montréal. A PhD student at the UdeM School of Architecture, Ms. Palombi received this $ 2,000 scholarship because of the importance of the BLRCS documents in her research project as well as for the quality of her work.
Université de Montréal
Jean-Pierre Chupin publishes a chapter in Jean-Louis Cohen’s book : L’architecture entre pratique et connaissance scientifique
This chapter presents the theoretical model elaborated by Jean-Pierre Chupin to categorize theories and doctoral thesis in architecture. It is presented in a new collection on architectural research published by the French Ministry of Culture.
UN COMPAS DES THÉORIES DANS L’OCÉAN DOCTORAL EN ARCHITECTURE
in
L’Architecture
Entre pratique et connaissance scientifique
Sous la direction de Jean-Louis Cohen
Coll. Recherche & Architecture
Editions du Patrimoine
2018
16,5 × 24,5 cm – 176 pages – 68 illustrations
Aurélien Catros – Winner of a faculty doctoral fellowship related to Artificial Intelligence 2018
The “Artificial Intelligence” faculty fellowship, worth $ 2,000 CAD, was awarded to support a doctoral research project entitled “Representation and Simulation of Architecture Project Qualities through the Prism of Building Data Modeling Systems”. This project aims to determine, through a series of comparative analyzes of different scientific models, the part of the numerical modeling of the architectural project in the appreciation of the architectural quality during its design. This research is part of the Montreal Declaration’s “Knowledge”, “Responsibility”, “Autonomy” and “Well-being” components for responsible development of artificial intelligence by promoting the transparency of design algorithms and processes. numerical modeling analysis, now widely democratized in professional practice.
Mandana Bafghinia winner of a 2018 Mitacs Globalink grant to pursue her research on observation decks in Shanghai
The Mitacs Globalink Research Award provides $6,000 in Canada to conduct 12–24-week research projects at universities overseas. The fellowship is awarded to support a doctoral research entitled « The Skyscraper: a viewing instrument for the metropolis ». The investigation of Shanghai’s buildings is particularly relevant to my research, both in terms of the quantity of observation decks located in the city and in terms of their design and operation. Besides the development of the thesis, the research stay will generate publications and support the development of a collaboration on high-rise buildings between Jiao Tong university and UdeM.
New book : « Competing for Excellence in Architecture – Editorials from the Canadian Competitions Catalogue (2006-2016) »
A travel guide for those in search of architectural quality, this book can be browsed in many ways. Written in a clear and concise manner by about thirty authors, it features a collection of editorials from the Canadian Competitions Catalogue (CCC), a large online digital archive open to the public since 2006. The editorials explore more than sixty Canadian architecture competitions held in the last seventy years. Especially in recent years, both public and private institutions have organized competitions across Canada, producing hundreds of architectural, urban planning, and landscape design projects. Together these proposals, most of which remain unbuilt, constitute a fantastic treasure in our tangible and intangible common heritage. Given that competition organizers, designers, juries, and critics never operate alone, there is no doubt whatsoever that this book results from the collaboration of a myriad of people, contributing to and competing for excellence in architecture.