Jean-Pierre Chupin

• Professor
• Professor (Full) at Université de Montréal

This article explores a trend provisionally called “eco-didacticism” observable for nearly 15 years in art, design and architecture. The corpus concentrates on learning centres as buildings meant to diffuse advanced knowledge in the field of sustainable architecture. We found evidence of additional educational intentions to the pedagogical or scien...

This comprehensive new book written by Jean-Pierre Chupin (Canadian Competitions Catalogue https://www.ccc.umontreal.ca/index.php?lang=en ) and Stanley Collyer (COMPETITIONS.org ) highlights for the crucial role competitions have played in fostering the careers of young architects, and makes an argument against the trend of invited competitions and...

The aim of this paper is to assess a distinctive form of environmentally-driven architecture and public art practice that has emerged in urban contexts over the last two decades. It appears that these environmental practices have been developing a distinctive, didactic discourse in recent decades. We formulate the hypothesis that this form of creat...

Based on two fundamental questions on the meaning of doctoral research in architecture, and its objectives, methods, and disciplinary boundaries, this paper presents a pedagogical orientation model for products of doctoral programs, conceived as a "navigation compass for theories and theses:" it offers at least eight perspectives to guide and class...

A travel guide for those in search of architectural quality, this book can be browsed in many ways. Written in a clear and concise manner by about thirty authors, it features a collection of editorials from the Canadian Competitions Catalogue (CCC), a large online digital archive open to the public since 2006. The editorials explore more than sixty...

Bâtiment abandonné, ruine moderne, fantôme urbain, squelette immobilier, structure désafectée... Une variété d’appellations pour tenter de circonscrire, au moins par les mots, le phénomène d’abandon de fragments entiers de villes. Cet abandon, qu’il soit partiel ou total, temporaire ou durable, est examiné́ ici au prisme du « potentiel » que pourra...

http://potentialarchitecturebooks.com/pac003/ Fruit d’efforts collectifs, ce livre se parcourt de multiples façons, tel un guide de voyage dans la recherche de la qualité architecturale. Les textes qui composent cet ouvrage collectif, rédigés par une trentaine d’auteurs, renvoient aux ressources du Catalogue des Concours Canadiens (CCC), grande ar...

For socio-anthropologist Jean-Pierre Boutinet, the architecture project reveals theoretical problems with respect to the complexity of anticipating the form of a place through ‘design thinking’ (2012). We consider the project as a set of traces and indices of design thinking and of reflexive practices embedded within the epistemology of ‘how profes...

Whether seeking out forms, ideas, principles, concepts or images, biology appears as a model and an inexhaustible source for designers at various scales. What do designers strive for when they wave the flag of life and what do they think they will find in the sciences that make it an object of knowledge? Conversely, may we say that biologists demon...

This book comprises a series of 22 case studies from renowned experts and new scholars in the field of architecture competition research. In 2015, it constitutes the most comprehensive survey of the dynamics behind the definition, organizing, judging, archiving and publishing of architectural, landscape and urban design competitions in the world. T...

How do experts and expertise impact the outcome of the architectural competitions? What do they bring to the judgment process? This study of experts and expertise in the judgment process is based on our previous research, which shows that environmental management tools are shifting the definition of quality in the architectural competition today. W...

This research paper is an investigation of ‘design for sustainability’ as an emerging aesthetic paradigm crossing the main disciplines concerned with design thinking, be it at the scales of architecture, landscape, and urban design. Our main objective is to better understand the way designers go beyond current injunctions of environmental norms in...

Seconde édition revue et corrigée avec une bibliographie augmentée. Ouvrage de recherche fondamentale sur le rôle de l’analogie dans les théories et les pratiques du projet d’architecture. Résumé : Si on comprend aisément que les concepteurs de formes et d’espaces aient quotidiennement recours aux figures de l’analogie pour imaginer leurs projets...

This article highlights the often underestimated impact of environmental Standards on the judgment process with particular reference to Contemporary Canadian competitions for public buildings. It argues that recent attention given to environmental Standards could lead to a potential crisis in the competition process. After establishing a clear dist...

Summary In the fields of architectural and urban design, judging is a disciplinary tradition. There is hardly any design that is not complemented by a judging process be it in schools, in professional offices, and in this peculiar democratic phenomenon called: architectural competition. Although commonly spread in the everyday practice, judgement h...

This article highlights the often underestimated impact of environmental standards on the judgment process with particular reference to contemporary Canadian competitions for public buildings. It argues that recent attention given to environmental standards could lead to a potential crisis in the competition process. After establishing a clear dist...

Texte (français-anglais) d’introduction de la monographie consacrée au groupe d’architectes lyonnais de l’agence Tectoniques : « La nature augmentée de la culture Tectoniques ». Présentation de 6 projets récents.

Architects have been opening up onto cyberspace for more than a decade now. In terms of disciplinary issues, at stake is our ability to inhabit this new space as ìdesignersî and not just as spectators. In the mid 90s, two theories engaged in a major confrontation. The first valued the virtual dimension of architectural space (W. J. Mitchell, City o...

En collaboration avec le professeur Cyrille Simonnet de l’Université de Genève et de l’ENSA Grenoble, cet ouvrage rassemblant les contributions de chercheurs canadiens, suisses, français et américains fait le point sur la question de la « tectonique » dans le domaine de l’esthétique constructive en architecture. Après avoir sommeillé pendant plus d...

Paradossalmente, benché concepito nella più intima incongruenza, un progetto puo svilupparsi benissimo nella pertinenza più generale. L'intenzione del présente articolo è quella di segnalare qualche difficoltà caratteristica, ma anche qualche rappresentazione delle più durature, dei tentativi di riduzione a modello delle fasi fondamentali délia con...

Note de recherche commandée et publiée par le doyen de la faculté de l’aménagement monsieur Michel Gariépy dans le cadre d’une réflexion interdisciplinaire.

Dans la postface de l'édition anglaise le professeur Joseph Rykwert concluait en 1983 : « Ce livre est essentiel pour tous ceux qui pensent que l'architecture doit réaffirmer son rôle essentiel de théâtre de la mémoire et de la métaphore - qu'il n'existe pas de structure sans signification ». La traduction de ce livre a véritablement été un point d...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Université de Montréal, 1998. Includes bibliographical references (p. 338-349).

This thesis analyzes the corporeal origin of theoretical works in XVI$ sp{ rm th}$ century French architecture. A comparison of Philibert de l'Orme's treatises and Francois Rabelais' work allows for a dynamic awareness of materiality to emerge. During the Renaissance, this awareness was based on analogical relationships and Hermetic texts. However,...