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Louis Martin and Georges Adamczyk publish Melvin Charney’s important theoretical texts on architecture in Quebec

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From 1964 to 1989, Montreal architect and artist Melvin Charney (1935-2012) published some forty essays dealing with the problems confronting contemporary architecture in Quebec and elsewhere, and describing the works he designed in response. This collection makes accessible to French-speaking readers, in revised and often unpublished translations, a selection of these writings that presents the … Read more

Understanding the Awards of Excellence (Issue 191 of Architecture Québec magazine) : Researchers from LEAP and the Canada Research Chair in Architecture, Competitions and Mediations of Excellence present some results of their recent work on awards of excellence in all areas of design

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This special issue on Awards of Excellence does not introduce new winners or reveal any results that were not previously known. Its purpose is to call for more attention to a phenomenon – the celebration of excellence – on which there is strangely little critical attention. What is to be understood from the plethora of … Read more

CANADIAN MAP OF AWARD-WINNING BUILDINGS AND PLACES

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More than 2,800 award-winning projects – designed by more than 1,000 architectural, urban planning and landscape architecture firms in Canada – first recorded in an Atlas of Architectural Excellence (AEA) At the initiative of the Canada Research Chair in Architecture, Competitions and the Mediation of Excellence (CRC-ACME), the Atlas of Excellence in Architecture (AEA) is taking … Read more

Sherif Goubran appointed as an instructor at the American University in Cairo (AUC-Egypt)

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Sherif Goubran, PhD Candidate in the Individualized program working under the supervision of Dr. Carmela Cuccuzzella at Concordia University, will commence his appointment as an instructor at the Department of Architecture at AUC this fall. In his new assignment, he will be teaching and expanding the department’s research activities in the area of sustainable and … Read more

Carmela Cucuzzella holds the Concordia University Research Chair (CURC) IDEAS-BE

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The Concordia University Research Chair (CURC) of Carmela Cucuzzella in IDEAS-BE is renewed from July 2020 to July 2025. The Concordia University Research Chair in Integrated Design, Ecology And Sustainability for the Built Environment (ideas-be)  focuses on the study of design projects and practices for the built environment situated at the crossroads of cultural, social, environmental and economic concerns. It considers sustainability as a paradigm crossing the main … Read more

Louise Pelletier receives a new grant

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Louise Pelletier obtains a PAFARC research grant (part 10) on the exhibition of design worth $17,000 for the period 2019-2023 at the Université du Québec à Montréal

Carmela Cucuzzella published a new book

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Carmela Cucuzzella published a new book, Analyzing Eco-Architecture Beyond Performance, at JFD Editions. At a time when environmental architecture is proliferating in all its forms around the world, adopting ever more complex sets of tools, this book provides an overview of the state of the field. It provides a critical introduction to the study of … Read more