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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 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.

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.

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).

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.

Sherif Goubran, doctoral student à Concordia University (dir. Carmela Cucuzzella) receives the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (2018-2021) for academic excellence and community involvement.

This research chair will develop and update the documentary database of the Canadian Competitions Catalogue (www.ccc.umontreal.ca ) and support the understanding of the role of competitions in the quality of our built environment in the fields of architecture, urban design and landscape architecture.

This research chair will develop projects connecting academic knowledge and the needs of communities for sustainable environments.

Félicitations à Tiphaine Abenia, lauréate de la Bourse Palladio 2017 (Pour son travail de thèse intitulé “Le projet d’architecture contemporain à l’épreuve du reclassement : catégorisation des potentiels de la structure urbaine abandonnée”, Tiphaine Abenia (directeurs : Jean-Pierre Chupin et Daniel Estevez) (La bourse de la Fondation Palladio soutient des doctorants et jeunes docteurs, français et étrangers, dont les recherches agissent significativement sur la construction de la ville. Cérémonie : 7 novembre 2017, Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Paris. ))

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.