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Montreal, Potential Architecture Books, 322 pages, October 2017   ISBN 978-0-9921317-5-3

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.

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).

David Theodore was granted a Canada Research Chair in Architecture, Health and Computation (Level 2). David is an Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture at McGill University. Tier 2 Chairs recognize outstanding emerging researchers whose peers demonstrate leadership potential in their field. This is $ 100,000 per year for five years with a possibility of renewal.

Dr Cynthia Imogen Hammond is Associate Professor and former Chair of the Department of Art History, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. During her postdoctoral fellowship at the School of Architecture, McGill University, she studied the relationships between architecture, philanthropy, and gender. In 2012 she published Architects, Angels, Activists and the City of Bath, 1765-1965 (Ashgate), in which she analyses the politics of heritage and memory in this UNESCO World Heritage city, using research-creation as part of her feminist method. Hammond has published numerous essays on art, architecture, gender, and urban landscapes in journals such as Architecture & Ideas, Women’s Studies, and Studies in the Social Sciences. A practising artist with an interest in place, space, and local knowledge, Hammond’s recent creative work includes two artist residencies that address the relationship of women’s history to urban gardens. Her research-creation projects are documented at cynthiahammond.org. Since July 2017 Hammond is lead Co-Director of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University.

Traductions constructives du projet d’architecture. Théoriser le détail à l’ère de la modélisation intégrative (B.I.M.) 

Résumé: Cette recherche porte sur le rôle des écarts entre les dessins d’architecture et les édifices qu’ils représentent en analysant le transfert des projets de la figuration à l’édification. Ce phénomène est abordé à la fois en tant que problématique disciplinaire, dans la perspective théorique et historique de la modernité architecturale, et en tant que problème pratique, à travers le tournant numérique de la conception architecturale.

L’hypothèse des traductions constructives du projet d’architecture (Evans, 1986), qui attribue une fonction heuristique à ces écarts, est déployée au moyen d’un rapprochement analogique entre conception architecturale et traduction littéraire. Ce parallèle permet de mobiliser les théories de la traduction de l’Allemagne romantique (Berman, 1984) pour problématiser le phénomène du transfert du projet au sein de la discipline architecturale. Interprétés en termes d’attitudes possibles des concepteurs face au transfert du projet, les principes théoriques modernes de la tectonique (Frampton, 1995) et de la construction comme représentation (Levine, 2009) assurent l’ancrage historique de cette problématique.

Supports privilégiés pour élaborer et prescrire les dispositifs constructifs, les détails constituent les principaux indicateurs permettant une observation pragmatique de ces attitudes au sein des pratiques professionnelles. L’hypothèse des traductions constructives est testée à travers deux études de cas portant sur la genèse de projets réalisés par les agences Chevalier Morales Architectes au Québec et Jakob+MacFarlane en France. Les opérations de traduction identifiées à travers ces projets témoignent de tensions constructives où le détail apparaît comme une catégorie de la conception architecturale numérique. Ces analyses permettent d’envisager une actualisation des théories modernes du détail à l’aulne de l’évolution contemporaine des méthodologies de conception.

Directeur : Jean-Pierre Chupin

Doctoral candidates: Adrienne Costa (UdeM), Mandana Bafghinia (UdeM), Sherif Goubran (Concordia) and Alessandra Mariani (UQAM) each receive a LEAP support grant in March 2017 thanks to our FRQSC infrastructure

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.

Directed by Carmela Cucuzzella and Alessandra Mariani