(Québec Société et Culture Research Fund: team infrastructure grant – 2022-2027)

FRQSC renews LEAP team grant until 2027.

The project, entitled Potentials of Architectural Quality: Equity, Sustainability and Cultural Openness, will have Jean-Pierre Chupin (Ph. D.) as team coordinator. The grant awarded to LEAP by the FRQSC (Support for Research Teams/University Renewal) for this project amounts to $423,420 and will run for 4 years, until 2027!

For 2022-2027, the program of the Laboratoire d’étude de l’architecture potentielle is based on three research chairs, addressing a central issue that has a direct impact on 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 Canada Research Chair (2) in Spatial Justice, McGill);
• 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 processes for recognizing architectural quality (linked to the Canada Research Chair (1) in Architecture, Competitions and Mediations of Excellence, Montreal).

The collective reflection on quality aims to paint a coherent, global picture 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

• 2023-2026 – Jean-Pierre Chupin receives a grant from Public Services and Procurement Canada for the project: “Expertise-conseil en concours de conception architecturale pour le réaménagement de la rue Wellington face à la Cité Parlementaire à Ottawa”. Research services contract with the Direction de la Cité Parlementaire ($483 000)
• 2023-2025 – Jean-Pierre Chupin receives a grant from the Ministère de l’enseignement supérieur du Québec and BRDV UdeM for the project: “Apprendre à voir la qualité architecturale : Cahier des charges et programmation  de l’interface d’accès tous publics d’études de cas exemplaires québécois”. Université de Montréal partnership ($88,896)
  2023-2025 – Jean-Pierre Chupin, Carmela Cucuzzella and Bechara Helal sign a research agreement with the Ville de Montréal for the project: “Vivre la qualité au quotidien : Protocole d’enquête et d’évaluation qualitative de la valeur sociale des édifices publics par le recueil d’expériences vécues par les usagers”. Bureau du design. Research agreement. Funding agency : Ville de Montréal ($65,000)
• 2023-2024 – Jean-Pierre Chupin, Sarah Huxley and Virginie LaSalle receive a grant from the Réseau pour transformer les soins en autisme / Transforming Autism Care Consortium for the project: “Être
  bien chez soi! Adaptation de milieux de vie pour répondre aux besoins des adultes autistes “. Partners for Change ($20,000)
• 2022-2027 – Jean-Pierre Chupin with 70 co-researchers and 68 partners receive SSHRC grant for project: “Quality in Canada’s Built Environment: Roadmaps to Equity, Social Value and Sustainability”. Partnership grant #895-2022-1003 ($2,496,780). Partners contribution ($6.1M including $4.2M in kind).
• 2022-2026 – Jean-Pierre Chupin and 12 researchers receive a grant from the Fond de recherche Québec société et culture (FRQSC) for the project: “Potentiels de la qualité architecturale : équité, durabilité et ouverture culturelle”. Support for university research teams – renewal ($423,420)
• 2021-2022 – Jean-Pierre Chupin, 59 co-researchers and 35 partners receive a SSHRC grant for the project: “Quality in Canada’s Built Environment: Seeking Equity, Social Value and Sustainability”. Partnership Grant – First stage ($20,000)
• 2020-2022 – With Luis Sotelo Castro (Concordia University), Cynthia Hammond and Ipek Tureli receive an IDG grant. Title: “The Spaces of Restorative and Transitional Justice: Architecture, Oral History, and Design”.
• 2020-2022– With Izabel Amaral (Laurentian University) Carmela Cucuzzella and Jean-Pierre Chupin receive a SSHRC grant (Programme développement Savoir) Title: “An Ecology of Wood Cultures in Canada (2003-2020): comparing constructive cultures through awarded architectural designs”
• 2020-2022 – Cynthia Hammond and Denis Bilodeau receive a SSHRC grant (Programme développement partenariat) Title: “La ville extraordinaire: Learning from older Montrealers’ urban knowledge through oral history research-creation. “Obtained with a team of seven other professors and community partners
• 2020 – 2025 – Carmela Cucuzzella renews Concordia University Research Chair: “Chaire Integrated Design, Ecology And Sustainability (IDEAS) for the Built Environment ”Chaire Ideas-be (Leap@Concordia)
• 2020-2021 – Along with Carlo Carbone (UQAM) and Réjean Legault (UQAM), Louise Pelletier and Bechara Helal are awarded a SSHRC grant (Connection Program), the Italian Institute and the Ordre des Architectes du Québec for the exhibition and colloquium “L’art et la science de construire, Pier Luigi Nervi” at UQAM’s design center.
• 2019 – 2026 – Jean-Pierre Chupin receives a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Architecture, Competitions and Mediations of Excellence
• 2019 – 2024 – Jean-Pierre Chupin receives a grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (John R. Evans Leaders Opportunity Fund – Partnerships) for the Atlas of Architectural Excellence in Canada
• 2019 – 2022 – Carmela Cucuzzella Chaire Ideas-be (Leap@Concordia) receives a grant from SSHRC’s Partnership Development Program. Title: CoLLaboratoire for Activating Multi-Modal Mobility (CAM): One Public Space at a Time. Co-Applicants: Anne Cormier (Leap@UdeM), Zackary Patterson (Concordia University), Carolyn Hatch Partners: Ville de Montréal, CRE Montréal, Jalon Montréal, Vélo Montréal
• 2019 – 2021 – With Mandana Bafghinia, Jean-Pierre Chupin and Bechara Helal receive a grant from the Council of Tall Building and Urban Habitat. Title: “Skyscrapers as a Complex Response to Rising Waters”
• 2018 – 2022 – Carmela Cucuzzella, Cynthia Hammond, Jean-Pierre Chupin obtain a grant from the SAVOIR program of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, for research entitled: The Eco-Didactic Turn in Art and Design Installations for the Public Realm (1992 – 2017)
• 2018-2021 – Jean-Pierre Chupin, Bechara Helal and Georges Adamczyk receive a research contract from Public Works and Government Services Canada.
• 2018-2020 – Anne Cormier, Jean-Pierre Chupin and Georges Adamczyk receive a grant from the Savoir development program of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, for research entitled: L’architecture scolaire en centre-ville comme espace de recherche création
• 2017-2021 – Jean-Pierre Chupin, Carmela Cucuzzella, David Theodore, Georges Adamczyk – Architectural quality for cultural institutions in Canada: shifting definitions within awards of excellence (SSHRC Research Grant. Savoir program)
• 2016-2020 – LEAP receives a FQRSC team operating grant. Title “Le projet d’architecture comme dispositif culturel aux interfaces critiques de la création, de la qualité, de la durabilité et de l’urbanité (Team operating grant from Fonds de Recherche Québec Société Culture)
• 2015-2020 – Carmela Cucuzzella obtains a Research Chair from Concordia University : “Chaire Integrated Design, Ecology And Sustainability (IDEAS) for the Built Environment”
• 2015-2017 – Carmela Cucuzzela receives a grant from the Knowledge Development program of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, for research entitled: “Environmentalism as symbolic form in canadian design competitions for cultural public places (2002-2012)”
• 2015-2016 – Louis Martin and Georges Adamczyk receive funding from the Canada Council for the Arts, Ordre des architectes du Québec, Institut patrimoine UQAM, Design UQAM and FQRSC for the exhibition and collective book on the work of the architectural firm PGL (Papineau Gérin-Lajoie), under the direction of Pr. Réjean Legault
• 2014 – Nicholas Roquet and his co-researchers receive a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s Savoir program, for research entitled “Architecture and the environmental tradition: the atmospheric in British architecture from 1750 to 1850” (SSHRC Grant)
• 2012 – Jean-Pierre Chupin receives a grant from the CFI Leaders Fund for the optimization of the Catalogue des Concours Canadiens (CFI Grant)
• 2012 – Jean-Pierre Chupin receives a Research Chair from the Université de Montréal: Chaire de Recherche sur les Concours et les pratiques contemporaines en architecture
• 2012 – Cartographie théorique des enjeux et stratégies durables dans les concours canadiens de design pour l’espace public (2003-2011) (Carmela Cucuzzella, FQRSC New Researcher Grant)
• 2012-2016 – Théories et pratiques contemporaines du projet d’architecture à l’épreuve des nouveaux enjeux de l’environnement bâti (FQRSC Operating Grant)
• 2012-2015 – Cartographie théorique des enjeux et stratégies durables dans les concours canadiens de design pour l’espace public (FQRSC Grant)
• 2010-2013 – J. Omer Marchand, first Canadian architect to graduate from the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris: analysis of his work as a mediation of identity (SSHRC Standard Research Grant)
• 2009-2012 – Conflict of analogical interpretations and architectural judgment in Canadian public competitions (1984-2004) (SSHRC Standard Research Grant)
• 2009-2012 – Melvin Charney: An Architectural Anthology (PAFARC Research Grant)
• 2008-2012 – Theories and practices of the contemporary architectural project. (L.E.A.P. Research Program). FQRSC operating grant.
• 2007-2012 – Making mega-projects work for communities. (SSHRC CURA grant)
• 2006-2007 – Concours d’architecture et imaginaire territorial: Les projets culturels au Québec, 1991-2005
• 2005-2007 – Three research and consulting contracts with GIP EPAU and Europan-France
• 2005-2008 – Innovating and conserving: creating contemporary architecture at the risk of heritage.
• 2004-2008 – Laboratoire d’étude de l’architecture potentielle (L.E.A.P. research program). FQRSC funding
• 2004-2006 – Architectural competitions: projects and new reflective practices in Quebec (1983-2003)
• 2003-2004 – Annotated directory of documents relating to Canadian architectural competitions.
• 2002-2003 – Evaluation and inventory of the competition section of the Canadian Centre for Architecture library.
• 2002-2005 – Architectural competitions and cultural mediations in Canada (1980 – 2000): comparative analysis of analogical transfers and reflexive practices constitutive of architectural projects.
• 2001-2002 – Paranalogia: A digital travel diary for interpreting visual references and architectural precedents.