Jean-Pierre Chupin

Jean-Pierre Chupin

Ph.D. Professor, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada

Architect M.O.A.Q., DPLG (FR), DipArch (2) (UK)

Holder of the Canada Research Chair in Architecture, Competitions and Quality (CRC-ACQUA)

coordinator of the Laboratory for the Study of Potential Architecture (LEAP) https://leap-architecture.org/en/ 

Tel. (514) 343 6809  jean-pierre.chupin@umontreal.ca

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• Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
• Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 
• Ph.D. en Aménagement (Montreal 1998)
• Member of the Ordre des Architectes du Québec (since 1993)
• Master in Architecture, History and Theory (McGill 1990)
• Arch (Portsmouth Polytechnic University 1985) Part 2
• Architect D.P.L.G. (Government Diploma, ENSA Nantes 1985)

Professor at the School of Architecture at Université de Montréal, Jean-Pierre Chupin holds the Canada Research Chair in Architecture, Competitions and Quality (CRC-ACQUA) (www.crc.umontreal.ca ). He coordinates the inter-university team of the Laboratoire d’Étude de l’Architecture Potentielle (LEAP) since 2002 https://leap-architecture.org/en/ . His research highlighting the multiple roles of analogical comparison was collected in Analogie et théorie en architecture (De la vie, de la ville et de la conception, même)published in 2010 and reissued in 2013 by Swiss publisher Infolio. The updated English version of this seminal work was published in 2023 by Bloomsbury Publishers (London) under the title: Analogical Thinking in Architecture (Connecting design and theory in the built environment). (List of publications)

Jean-Pierre Chupin is the founding director and editor-in-chief of the Canadian Competitions Catalogue (CCC) / Catalogue des Concours Canadiens (www.ccc.umontreal.ca ). Supported by the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Canadian Competitions Catalogue is a bilingual interactive publication and digital search and archiving tool based on a documentary database containing information and documents on all projects designed in a competitive environment in Canada.

As part of the establishment of an international research network on competitions, Jean-Pierre Chupin co-edited Architecture Competitions and the Production of Culture, Quality and Knowledge (An International Inquiry) in 2015. Building on the data compiled in the CCC, in 2016 he edited the first book to cover 70 years of the history of competitions in Canada: Competing for Excellence in Architecture (CCC Editorials, 2006 – 2016) (published in English in 2017). In 2020, in collaboration with G. Stanley Collyer, he published Young Architects in Competitions (When Competitions and a New Generation of Ideas Elevate Architectural Quality) in open access on the CRC-ACME website.

Since 2022, he has been leading a major research partnership on quality in the built environment, bringing together – for the first time – 14 universities, 70 researchers and 68 public and private organizations at municipal, provincial and national levels. Entitled Quality in Canada’s Built Environment: Roadmaps to Equity, Social Value and Sustainability, this national project is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada until 2027. The partnership stimulates a vital dialogue demonstrating how those actively involved in thinking about and creating the built environment across Canada can contribute to a redefinition of quality leading to greater equity, social value and sustainability at a critical time for our planet. As part of this partnership, and with the support of the Canada Foundation for Innovation, he is currently building the ArchiQualiData platform which correlates exemplarity and lived experiences of quality and from a historical inventory of over 4500 award-winning achievements in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, interior design and urban design in Canada.

As an expert in architectural and urban planning competitions, Jean-Pierre Chupin was a member of the advisory committee to the Board of Directors for the Pavillon Lassonde at the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec. Public Services and Procurement Canada and the Parliamentary Precinct Directorate called on his scientific expertise for the feasibility study of the international competition for a major heritage complex on Parliament Hill in Ottawa from 2017 to 2022 (Block 2). The Montreal Holocaust Museum also benefited from her participation on the advisory committee for the organization of its international competition in 2020-2022.

A member of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and the Ordre des Architectes du Québec, he was selected to represent Canada at the 1995 Venice Architecture Biennale. The projects of students in the “Explorations in Architectural Design” orientation of the Master of Architecture program have been the subject of numerous exhibitions and are presented on the OUPROPO website (Ouvroir de projets potentiels, www.oupropo.umontreal.ca ) from 2001 to 2016. Jean-Pierre Chupin received a Teaching Excellence Award from the Université de Montréal in 2008. Regularly solicited for expert appraisals by major Canadian, French, Swiss, Brazilian and Belgian granting agencies, he was a member of the Université de Montréal Research Committee from 2006 to 2012, a member of SSHRC’s Aid to Scholarly Journals Committee as well as chair of SSHRC doctoral fellowship award committees.

Jean-Pierre Chupin’s career is a compendium of varied and exceptional experiences, ranging from mobilizing researchers in universities to creating encyclopedic digital databases, from scientific research to organizing international conferences, and from pedagogical innovation, including student competitions, to consulting for the highest levels of government. An active member of two committees on equity, diversity and inclusion at the Université de Montréal, he is now fully committed to this major Canadian research partnership, which showcases best practices in Canada while challenging the current imbalances between stakeholders in the built environment that undermine the social value of architectural quality. How can we identify new ways of understanding architectural quality that are sufficiently comparable and socially representative to guide decision-making and policy frameworks?