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Cynthia Hammond has been awarded a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant for the project, “La ville extraordinaire: Learning from older Montrealers’ urban knowledge through oral history research-creation”

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Working with LEAP team member, Denis Bilodeau and a team of seven other professors and community partners, Cynthia Hammond will be leading a 3-year research-creation project that focuses on the ways in which four different communities of older Montrealers have shaped the city of Montreal over time.

Jean-Pierre Chupin and David Theodore participated in a round table on the occasion of the launch of the book “Canadian Modern Architecture”

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Jean-Pierre Chupin and David Theodore participated in a round table at the launch of the book “Canadian Modern Architecture”, January 15, 2020, at the Canadian Center for Architecture. This detailed reference work highlights how architectural practice in Canada has changed since 1967, and how Canadian architects have interpreted international fashions and regional and Aboriginal architectural … Read more

Louise Pelletier is co-curator of the exhibition “Concrete in all its forms – Mark West’s architectural experiments”

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Louise Pelletier is co-curator of the exhibition “Concrete in all its forms – Mark West’s architectural experiments”, inaugurated on February 20, 2020. Until April 11, 2020, the Design Center presents visionary and enigmatic drawings concrete constructions by artist and architect Mark West, brought together for the first time in one place. This collection of works … Read more

Carmela Cucuzzella and professors from UQAM, ULaval and the University of Montreal organize a conference for the next ACFAS 2020

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The second edition of the Intersections du design symposium will take place on May 4 and 5, 2020, during the 88th Acfas congress in Sherbrooke. Entitled “Caring through design”, it seeks to examine what kind of insight the concept of care can offer to research and practices currently carried out in the design disciplines. Organized … Read more

Jean-Pierre Chupin interviewed on the international competition for the national palace in Haiti

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In 2017, seven years after the earthquake that destroyed the historic building of the National Palace in Haiti, a major international architecture competition was launched and the winners were announced on January 12, 2020. But some of the contest participants denounce the opacity of the process. Despite the renown of the winning team of Cassandre … Read more

Georges Adamczyk organizes an exhibition around Japanese heritage at the UdeM Exhibition Center

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As part of his mandate as head of exhibitions of the Faculty of Planning presented annually at the Exhibition Center of the University of Montreal, Georges Adamczyk, offers an exhibition of monuments and sites inscribed on the World Heritage List of UNESCO, photographed by Kazuyoshi Miyoshi. This exhibition is a project supported by the School … Read more