THE POTENTIAL OF ARCHITECTURAL QUALITY: EQUITY, SUSTAINABILITY AND CULTURAL OPENNESS

The project is coordinated by Jean-Pierre Chupin (Ph.D.) and Bechara Helal (Ph.D.). The grant awarded to LEAP by the FRQSC (support for research teams / University renewal) for this project amounts to $423,420 over a 4-year period, i.e. until 2027!

For 2022-2027, the program of the Laboratoire d’étude de l’architecture potentielle is based on the tie-up of three research chairs to address a central issue that directly impacts the daily lives of millions of citizens: the quality of built environments.

The Potentials of Architectural Quality: Equity, Sustainability and Cultural Openness project is structured around 3 axes:

• Axis 1: Equity, spatial justice and improved quality of life (linked to the McGill Canada Research Chair (2) on spatial justice);
• Axis 2: Sustainability imperatives and material qualities of built environments (linked to the Research Chair in Ecological and Integrated Design, Concordia);
• Axis 3: Cultural openness and the process of recognizing architectural quality (linked to the Canada Research Chair (1) in Architecture, Competitions and the Mediation of Excellence, Montreal).

The collective reflection on quality aims to paint a global and coherent portrait of our discipline and its renewal, but also, and perhaps above all, to demonstrate how players in the built environment can contribute to a redefinition of quality at a critical moment in our collective history.

The team is made up of researchers from four Montreal universities.

• Université de Montréal: Jean-Pierre Chupin, Georges Adamczyk, Izabel Amaral, Denis Bilodeau, Anne Cormier, Bechara Helal, Virginie LaSalle
• Concordia University: Carmela Cucuzzella, Cynthia Hammond
• McGill University: Ipek Türeli
• UQÀM: Thomas Bernard Kenniff, Louis Martin