COMPLETED RESEARCHES

A research chair studying design projects and practices for the built environment. [Carmela Cucuzzella]

 Conducted by the Pavillon de l’Arsenal, amàco and Les Grands Ateliers, the exhibition presents 40 finalist buildings for the TERRAFIBRA Award, the world’s leading prize for contemporary architecture using raw earth and plant fibers. Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need to adapt building systems, the use of biosourced and geosourced materials ... Read more

Exhibition and symposium on the work of Pier Luigi Nervi. [Research directed by Carlo Carbone, Louise Pelletier, Bechara Helal and Réjean Legault].

Making public the extraordinary urban knowledge held by older Montrealers. [Cynthia Hammond, Shauna Janssen, Denis Bilodeau and Ursula Eickerand]

A research on skyscrapers in main floods. [Mandana Bafghinia, Jean-Pierre Chupin and Bechara Helal]

This research-creation aims to explore the didactic potential of architecture in its relationship with the city through the study and design of places “in-between”. The issue of innovation in school architecture in the Canadian downtown of the 21st century is addressed in an exploration of the interfaces between school and city. The spatiality of the ... Read more

Studying the quality of the built environment through awards of excellence. [A research led by Jean-Pierre Chupin, Carmela Cucuzzella, David Theodore, Georges Adamczyk]

The question of heritage and conservation in architectural competitions. [A research led by Jacques Lachapelle]

20 years of ideas competitions reserved for young European architects [A cooperation led by Jean-Pierre Chupin]

Feb. 9, 2010, launching of 3rd question. A forum of ideas, techniques and resources in sustainable design [A research led by Daniel Pearl]

A research on juries and conflicts of interpretation [Jean-Pierre Chupin, Georges Adamczyk, Pierre Boudon]

On Architecture, Melvin Charney : An Critical Anthology Louis Martin (dir.), Georges Adamczyk McGill Queens, Montréal, 2013.     Funded by : Conseil des arts du Canada PAFARC UQAM Histoire UQAM FSH FCSH (PAES)   http://www.mqup.ca/on-architecture-products-9780773541825.php   Part of the McGill-Queen’s/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History Series (number 11 in series) 496 Pages, 8.25 x 10 350 ... Read more

The theme of territory is explored in 31 cultural projects in Quebec (1991-2005) [An exhibition led by Denis Bilodeau]

2006 COMPETITION – Archives 2007 COMPETITION – Rules   Social Housing and Research Creation:  This research/creation project seeks to explore new ideas revealed by social housing in the Canadian city centre. It is structured around two ideas competitions organised by the LEAP research laboratory that are open to graduate-level architecture students attending Canadian universities. The ... Read more