The School of Architecture team took second prize at the recently completed 2016 Tongji International Construction Festival in Shanghai. The students' project - "Sphere - Wave" - was based on the use of a single, repeated module and required no additional fasteners beyond a simple friction connection. This allowed for rapid assembly without additional tools in a variety of situations. The modular concept also permitted a variety of shapes for the final project.
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Published on: 14 Jun 2016
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Published on: 20 May 2016
Prof. Robert Mellin has won the Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association鈥檚 (sponsored by Friesens Corporation) at this year鈥檚 Atlantic Book Awards and Festival.聽 The award was announced at the festival gala in Moncton, NB, on April 27, 2016, and was presented for a printed book which best exemplifies publishing activity in Atlantic Canada.聽 Prof.
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Published on: 29 Apr 2016
To honour the teaching career of Emeritus Professor Radoslav Zuk (BArch 1956), Michel Broz (BArch 1987) and Isabelle Jodoin (BEng 1986) have created an endowment to fund a travel award to be offered to one or more undergraduate students in the School of Architecture undertaking an exchange semester at a university outside of Canada recognized by the Student Exchange & Study Abroad Office.聽 It is expected that the first recipient will be awarded in the 2020-2021 academic year.
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Published on: 12 Apr 2016
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Published on: 8 Apr 2016
At the awards ceremony of the Grands Prix du Design on February 15, 2016, at the Casino de Montr茅al, (Adjunct Professor Howard Davies, Randy Cohen and Anne Cormier, all BArch 1982) won an award for their project 鈥�7-Plex鈥� in the category Residential Space, 1,600 sq. ft.
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Published on: 18 Feb 2016
Gonzalo Lizarralde (MArch 2001) has won an Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) / American Institute of Architects (AIA) : a Housing Design Education Award (Excellence in Housing Education Course or Activity) for .聽 Lizarralde is an
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Published on: 25 Jan 2016
The McGill team of Maha Benhachmi (U2), Muye Ma (U2) and Mahya Sabour (U3), with the assistance of Luis Alvarez (BSc[Arch] 2015), won first prize in the Architecture 脡ph茅m猫re competition at the outside Quebec City at the opening celebration on Friday, January 15.聽 A total of 32 teams from the universities of Laval, McGill, Montr茅al and UQAM submitted design panels to the competition, of which three were chosen to be built as theme rooms.聽 First prize was awarded to
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Published on: 18 Jan 2016
A team of undergraduate students from the School is one of three finalist teams in the Architecture 脡ph茅m猫re competition at the outside Quebec City: Maha Benhachmi (U2), Muye Ma (U2), and Mahya Sabour (U3).聽 For the 11th consecutive year, the competition was open to students from the universities of Laval, McGill, Montr茅al, and UQAM.聽 The three winning schemes were chosen from over 30 submitted projects, and they will be built as actual rooms in the Ice Hotel this winter.聽 They wer
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Published on: 9 Dec 2015
Clothilde Caill茅-L茅vesque (MArch 2015 and a course lecturer in the School) is one of five winners of the .聽 She was the sole student selected as an award winner, for her graduating thesis project,
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Published on: 9 Dec 2015
Many graduates of the School are represented amongst the 2015 winners of the OAQ (Ordre des architectes du Qu茅bec) Prix d'excellence en architecture.聽 A total of 13 awards and two mentions were announced on November 21, 2015, in the 28th year of the prizes.
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Published on: 3 Dec 2015
The Quartier des Spectacles Partnership has announced the installation that will take over the Place des Festivals this coming winter for the sixth annual edition of Luminoth茅rapie, from 10 December 2015 to 31 January 2016: Impulse, a participatory creation by the Toronto-based firm , and, in collaboration with EGP Group, both from Montreal.
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Published on: 16 Oct 2015
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Published on: 2 Oct 2015
Prof. Ricardo L. Castro has been elected as a member to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA) and will be formally inducted into the Academy at the RCA's Annual General Assembly, during the President's Dinner, in May 2016 in Vancouver.聽 The Acting President of the Academy, Joseph-Richard Veilleux RCA, reported to Prof. Castro that the members of the Jury of the RCA Membership Committee determined that he had met all the criteria for election to the Academy and that the discipline most appropriate to his accomplishments, and for which he was elected, is photography.
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Published on: 8 Sep 2015
The School of Architecture welcomes Prof. Martin Bressani as its next Director for a three-year term, effective September 1, 2015, until August 31, 2018.聽 This appointment follows a search conducted this past spring by the Search Advisory Committee chaired by Dean Jim Nicell.
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Published on: 7 Jul 2015
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