ONGOING RESEARCHES

RECHERCHES EN COURS / ONGOING RESEARCHES

 

QUALITY IN CANADA'S BUILT ENVIRONMENT: ROADMAPS TO EQUITY, SOCIAL VALUE AND SUSTAINABILITY

2022-2027 – Jean-Pierre Chupin leads the $8.6 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada research partnership, including a $2.5M SSHRC grant.
 

LIVING QUALITY EVERY DAY

2023-2025 - Jean-Pierre Chupin, Carmela Cucuzzella and Bechara Helal sign a research agreement with the Ville de Montréal for the project: "Living quality every day: Protocol for investigating and qualitatively assessing the social value of public buildings by collecting user experiences." Bureau du design. Research agreement. Funding agency: Ville de Montréal ($65,000)
 

LEARNING TO SEE ARCHITECTURAL QUALITÉ IN QUÉBEC

2023-2025 – Programming and unfolding of interfaces to raise public awareness of the quality of built environments
 

THE FUTURE OF WELLINGTON STREET IN OTTAWA

2023-2025 – Jean-Pierre Chupin obtains a new research contract with Public Services and Procurement Canada for the future of Ottawa's Wellington Street and its transformation into a civic space.
 

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

2022-2026 – The LEAP laboratory obtains a renewal of a $423,000 FRQSC grant to support research teams.
 

ARCHIVES OF EXEMPLARITY IN ARCHITECTURE AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT (AREA)

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 (...)
 

ARCHITECTURAL QUALITY FOR CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS IN CANADA: SHIFTING DEFINITIONS WITHIN AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE

Jean-Pierre Chupin, Carmela Cucuzzella, David Theodore, Georges Adamczyk Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Insight grants) 2017 - 2020
 

THE ECO-DIDACTIC TURN IN ART AND DESIGN INSTALLATIONS FOR THE PUBLIC REALM (1992 - 2017)

Carmela Cucuzzella, Cynthia Hammond and Jean-Pierre Chupin Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Insight grants) 2018 - 2022
 

AN ECOLOGY OF WOOD CULTURES IN CANADA (2003-2020) : COMPARING CONSTRUCTIVE CULTURES THROUGH AWARDED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNS

Izabel Amaral (Laurentian University), Jean-Pierre Chupin and Carmela Cucuzzella, research funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Insight Development Grants) 2020-2022
 

THE ARCHITECTURE OF SCHOOLS IN CITY CENTRES AS SPACES OF RESEARCH CREATION

Anne Cormier, Jean-Pierre Chupin and Georges Adamczyk research funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Insight Development Grant) 2018-2020
 

SKYSCRAPERS AS A COMPLEX RESPONSE TO RISING WATERS

Mandana Bafghinia, Jean-Pierre Chupin and Bechara Helal funded by the Council of Tall Building and Urban Habitat (CTBUH - student research award 2019),
 

ARCHITECTURE OF COLLEGE CAMPUSES

Ipek Tureli, Jean-Pierre Chupin and Carmella Cucuzzella research funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Fond québecois de recherche en sciences sociales 2013-2018
 

(Ongoing research program on competitions and online public ressource)

CCC : The digital library for architecture, urbanism, design and landscape architecture projects designed in the context of competition in Canada designed and updated by : Université de Montréal Research Chair on Competitions and Contemporary Practices in Architecture (Jean-Pierre Chupin).
 

Make your maps of excellence on www.MONTREAL-ARCHIMAP.ca

Discover the cartographic device MONTREAL-ARCHIMAP. The team of the Research Chair on Competitions and Contemporary Practices in Architecture embarked on the design and implementation of a cartographic application highlighting contemporary architecture in Montreal for the 375th anniversary of Montreal. (Nicholas Roquet and Jean-Pierre Chupin in collaboration with Humaneco.ca).