Sinisha Brdar est architecte, designer urbain et professeur à l’École de design de l’UQAM à Montréal. Il a précédemment enseigné à l’Université de Montréal, à McGill et à Harvard GSD. Diplômé de l’Université de Montréal et de Harvard GSD, il a travaillé au sein de nombreuses agences d’architecture au Canada et à l’international, dont Office … Read more
Dr. Carly Ziter is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at Concordia University, where she holds a University Research Chair in Urban Ecology and Sustainability. As a landscape and urban ecologist, her research asks how landscape structure, land-use history, and biodiversity impact multiple ecosystem services – the benefits we receive from nature – … Read more
Olivier Vallerand is an architect, historian, associate professor and head of the interior design program at the École de design de l’Université de Montréal, which he joined after a post-doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley and an early professorial career at Arizona State University. His research focuses on the relationships between personal and collective … Read more
Director of the School of Architecture since June 1, 2021, Izabel Amaral was a professor at Laurentian University’s McEwen School of Architecture in Sudbury from 2016 to 2021. Trained as an architect in Brazil, she practiced architecture there for several years before embarking on doctoral studies at the Faculty of Environmental Design and settling in … Read more
Virginie LaSalle is on the faculty of the School of Design since 2016 and she is teaching in the Bachelor of Interior Design program since 2007. Trained as an interior designer, she practiced in specialized and multidisciplinary firms before embarking on a specialized master’s degree in history and theory at the M.Sc.A. aménagement, followed by … Read more
Thomas-Bernard Kenniff is a professor of environmental design at the École de design de l’Université du Québec à Montréal since 2015. His research and design work focuses on the formalization of social arrangements and their spaces, municipal architectural devices, the theory and design of urban public spaces, and related issues of identity and politics. He … Read more
Ipek Türeli is Assistant Professor in the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture at McGill, where she holds the Canada Research Chair in Architectures of Spatial Justice. Her research explores the role of architecture in the articulation, mediation, and negotiation of political selves, and recognizes not only the agency of the built environment but also … Read more
Bechara Helal is a Doctor of Architecture from the University of Montreal. His research, under the direction of Jean-Pierre Chupin, focuses on the model of the scientific research laboratory in contemporary architectural practices. He holds a degree in structural engineering from the École Polytechnique de Montréal and a professional master’s degree in Architectural Design from … Read more
Biography Louise Pelletier was trained as an architect. She has been Professor at the School of Design of the Université du Québec à Montréal since 2006 where she was Director of the Undergraduate Program in Environmental Design from 2008 to 2012 and Director of the School of Design from 2014 to 2017. She is currently Director of the Design Centre … Read more
Ph.D. Architecture – Princeton University, Princeton, USA Louis Martin teaches the history of architecture in the programmes of the Art History Department at UQAM, where he is Professor since 2004. After graduating in architecture at the Université de Montréal (B.Arch., 1983), he pursued his studies in the history, theory and criticism programmes at MIT (S.M.Arch.S. … Read more