ONGOING RESEARCHES
LIVING QUALITY EVERY DAY: PROTOCOL FOR INVESTIGATING AND QUALITATIVELY ASSESSING THE SOCIAL VALUE OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS BY COLLECTING USER EXPERIENCES
2023-2025 – Jean-Pierre Chupin, Carmela Cucuzzella and Bechara Helal sign a research agreement with the Ville de Montréal for the project: “Living quality every day: Protocol for investigating and qualitatively (...) more
ATLAS OF EXCELLENCE IN ARCHITECTURE (AEA)
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 (...) more
THE SPACES OF RESTORATIVE AND TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE: ARCHITECTURE, ORAL HISTORY, AND DESIGN
Cynthia Hammond, Ipek Tureli et Luis Sotelo Castro (Concordia University), research funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Insight Development Grants) 2020-2022 (...) more
THE ART AND SCIENCE OF BUILDING, PIER LUIGI NERVI
Carlo Carbone, Louise Pelletier, Bechara Helal and Réjean Legault Exhibition and colloquium at Centre de design de l’UQAM funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (Connection Program), the Italian Cultural Institute and the Ordre des Architectes du Québec 2020-2021 (...) more
ARCHITECTURAL QUALITY FOR CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS IN CANADA: SHIFTING DEFINITIONS WITHIN AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE
Jean-Pierre Chupin, Carmela Cucuzzella, David Theodore, Georges Adamczyk Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Insight grants) 2017 - 2020 (...) more
Carmela Cucuzzella holds the Concordia University Research Chair (CURC) IDEAS-BE
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 disciplines and professions concerned with (...) more
THE LAYOUT OF THE COMMON. RETHINKING THE MUNICIPAL INTERFACES IN MONTREAL THROUGH THE PROJECT
Thomas-Bernard Kenniff, Virginie Lasalle, Anne Cormier and Louise Pelletier research funded by the Fonds de Recherche Québec Société Culture (soutien à la relève professorale) 2017-2021 (...) more
COLLABORATOIRE FOR ACTIVATING MULTI-MODAL MOBILITY (CAM): ONE PUBLIC SPACE AT A TIME
Carmela Cucuzzella et Anne Cormier research funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Partership Development Grant) 2019-2022 (...) more
Jean-Pierre Chupin holds the Canada Research Chair in Architecture, Competitions, and Mediations of Excellence
CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR IN ARCHITECTURE, COMPETITIONS AND MEDIATIONS OF EXCELLENCE MONTREAL, June 20, 2019 – Canada's science minister Kirsty Duncan announced the April and October 2018 Canada Research Chair Awards, including one in Architecture, Competitions and Mediations for Excellence, granted (...) more
ARCHITECTURE OF COLLEGE CAMPUSES: PEDAGOGY AND SPATIAL IMAGINATION
Ipek Tureli, Jean-Pierre Chupin and Carmella Cucuzzella research funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Fond québecois de recherche en sciences sociales 2013-2018 (...) more
DESIGNING THE LIVING SPACES OF A TRANSITIONAL HOUSING FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AGED 8 TO 14 WITH A COMPLEX MULTI-PROBLEMATIC PROFILE
Virginie Lasalle, Anne Cormier and Denis Bilodeau research funded by the Integrated University Center of Health and Social Services of the Mauricie-et-du-Centre-du-Québec (...) more
THE ECO-DIDACTIC TURN IN ART AND DESIGN INSTALLATIONS FOR THE PUBLIC REALM (1992 - 2017)
Carmela Cucuzzella, Cynthia Hammond and Jean-Pierre Chupin Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Insight grants) 2018 - 2022 (...) more
AN ECOLOGY OF WOOD CULTURES IN CANADA (2003-2020) : COMPARING CONSTRUCTIVE CULTURES THROUGH AWARDED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNS
Izabel Amaral (Laurentian University), Jean-Pierre Chupin and Carmela Cucuzzella, research funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Insight Development Grants) 2020-2022 (...) more
SKYSCRAPERS AS A COMPLEX RESPONSE TO RISING WATERS
Mandana Bafghinia, Jean-Pierre Chupin and Bechara Helal funded by the Council of Tall Building and Urban Habitat (CTBUH - student research award 2019), (...) more
LA VILLE EXTRAORDINAIRE: LEARNING FROM OLDER MONTREALERS' URBAN KNOWLEDGE THROUGH ORAL HISTORY RESEARCH-CREATION.
Cynthia Hammond (PI), Shauna Janssen (Concordia University), Denis Bilodeau and Ursula Eickerand (Concordia University) research funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (Partership Development Grant) 2020-2022 (...) more
THE ARCHITECTURE OF SCHOOLS IN CITY CENTRES AS SPACES OF RESEARCH CREATION
Anne Cormier, Jean-Pierre Chupin and Georges Adamczyk research funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Insight Development Grant) 2018-2021 (...) more
Ipek Tureli holds the Canada Research Chair in Architectures of Spatial Justice
Prof. Ipek Tureli: holds one of the McGill CRCs: the Tier 2 – Canada Research Chair in Architectures of Spatial Justice announced the 2nd of december 2016 by the Canada Science minister Kirsty Duncan. (...) more
DESIGNING PLACES WITH, BY AND FOR AUTISTIC PEOPLE
Virginie Lasalle, Cynthia Hammond, Bechara Helal with Baudouin Forgeot d'Arc (psychiatry) and Vincent Larivière (information sciences) research funded by the Fonds de Recherche Québec Société Culture (programme intersectoriel Audace) 2017-2021 (...) more
HOUSING FOR SPATIAL JUSTICE: COOPERATIVES FOR WOMEN IN MONTREAL
Ipek Tureli et Virginie Lasalle research funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, the Canada Research Chair in Architectures of Spatial Justice and the Canadian Foundation for Innovation 2018- (...) more
TERRITORY IN MOTION AND BODY AT REST: AN INVENTORY OF QUEBEC'S REST STOPS
Thomas-Bernard Kenniff, Bechara Helal and Virginie Lasalle research funded by the Faculté des arts de l’UQAM and the Ministère des transports du Québec. (...) more
(Ongoing research program on competitions and online public ressource)
CCC : The digital library for architecture, urbanism, design and landscape architecture projects designed in the context of competition in Canada designed and updated by : Université de Montréal Research Chair on Competitions and Contemporary Practices in Architecture (Jean-Pierre Chupin). (...) more