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Aurélien Catros – Winner of a faculty doctoral fellowship related to Artificial Intelligence 2018

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The “Artificial Intelligence” faculty fellowship, worth $ 2,000 CAD, was awarded to support a doctoral research project entitled “Representation and Simulation of Architecture Project Qualities through the Prism of Building Data Modeling Systems”. This project aims to determine, through a series of comparative analyzes of different scientific models, the part of the numerical modeling of … Read more

Mandana Bafghinia winner of a 2018 Mitacs Globalink grant to pursue her research on observation decks in Shanghai

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The Mitacs Globalink Research Award provides $6,000 in Canada to conduct 12–24-week research projects at universities overseas. The fellowship is awarded to support a doctoral research entitled « The Skyscraper: a viewing instrument for the metropolis ». The investigation of Shanghai’s buildings is particularly relevant to my research, both in terms of the quantity of observation decks … Read more

Jean-Pierre Chupin cosigns a manifesto for the quality of public constructions

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Jean-Pierre Chupin, holder of the Université de Montréal Research Chair on Competitions, is co-signatory of the open letter on service contracts for public bodies, a joint manifesto of the Association of Architects in Private Practice of Quebec (AAPPQ) and the Association of Engineering Consulting Firms – Quebec (AFG) against the bill imposing the rule of … Read more

Louise Pelletier PhD, new member of LEAP

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Beginning in the fall of 2018, Louise Pelletier, architect, historian, professor at the Uqam School of Design and director of the Uqam Design Center, joins the LEAP interuniversity team.

(winter 2018) 5 doctoral students at LEAP receive a support grant

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5 doctoral students at LEAP receive a support grant taken on the FRQSC infrastructure grant (2016-2020) Elijah Borrero (McGill, dir. David Theodore), Alessandra Mariani (Uqam, dir. Louis Martin), Sherif Goubran (Concordia, dir. Carmela Cucuzzella), Alexandra Paré et Mandana Bafghinia (UdeM, dir. Jean-Pierre Chupin).

LEAP Notebooks #2: Heteronomy, Autonomy (winter 2018)

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Publication of a second issue of texts on contemporary architecture: Cahiers de recherche du LEAP Research notebooks #02 Issue edited by Louis Martin and Jonathan Lachance dedicated to the Potential of Heteronomy and Autonomy in Architecture with invited scholar Prof. Paolo Amaldi (ENSA Versailles). Discover issue#3 on the page dedicated by Potential Architecture Books: here.