Alexandra Paré will attend the international conference Educational Architecture – Education, Heritage which will be held in Lisbon from 6-8 May, 2019, at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
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Aristofanis Soulikias awarded the Jorisch Family Artist Residency
Aristofanis Soulikias, an Individualized Program PhD candidate with strong ties to the Faculty of Fine Arts, has been awarded the 2019 Jorisch Family Artist Residency. Announced in 2016, the fellowship supports a four-week artist residency for outstanding graduate students in the Amalie Redlich Tower of the Museum der Moderne in Salzburg, Austria.
Alessandra Mariani reviews the CCA exhibit in JAE
Alessandra Mariani was invited to review the CCA’s recent exhibition Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths in The Journal of Architectural Education (JAE).
David Theodore and TBA at the Venice Biennale in Architecture of 2020
The Canada Council for the Arts is proud to support TBA and David Theodore’s Impostor Citites exhibit at the Venice Architecture Biennale of 2020. It seeks to understand why, in the cinema, Canadian cities come to substitute themselves for other cities around the world.
Aaron Richmond at the Max Planck Institute
Since December 2018, Aaron Richmond has been a pre-doctoral fellow in Department II of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. His research there considers the scientific lineages drawn together within the French periodical L’Esprit nouveau (1920-1925).
Aurélien Catros – Winner of a faculty doctoral fellowship related to Artificial Intelligence 2018
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 the architectural project in the appreciation of the architectural quality during its design. This research is part of the Montreal Declaration’s “Knowledge”, “Responsibility”, “Autonomy” and “Well-being” components for responsible development of artificial intelligence by promoting the transparency of design algorithms and processes. numerical modeling analysis, now widely democratized in professional practice.
Mandana Bafghinia winner of a 2018 Mitacs Globalink grant to pursue her research on observation decks in Shanghai
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 located in the city and in terms of their design and operation. Besides the development of the thesis, the research stay will generate publications and support the development of a collaboration on high-rise buildings between Jiao Tong university and UdeM.
Jean-Pierre Chupin cosigns a manifesto for the quality of public constructions
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 the lowest bidder.
