ONGOING RESEARCHES

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 (...) 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. (...) 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 (...) 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)
