Prizes

The distinguished jury will award a first, second and third place prizes. Winners of these prizes will receive a selection of CCA publications as well as ‘Friends of the CCA’ memberships and access to the CCA’s international network.

Members of the jury

Alexandre Blouin
Principal associate, architecte OAQ, OAA, MIRAC,
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BLOUIN TARDIF

Co-founder of the Blouin Tardif Architecture Environnement Inc firm, Alexandre Blouin graduated from l’Université de Montréal’s École d’Architecture (1994) and from the reputed Architectural Association of London, where he completed a graduate degree in sustainable architecture (2002). He has over 20 years of experience as a practising architect, more specifically as a designing architect, a project manager and an administrator for multidisciplinary teams. For about 15 years now, his interests and particular skillset has guided his work toward the development of sustainable projects.

Andréanne Chevalier
Journalist, Le Devoir

Andréanne Chevalier is a journalist at Le Devoir team. She has a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and graduate degree in urban studies. Chevalier is particularly interested in social issues related to urbanism and the everyday realities of city life.

Koen De Winter Dr h c
Associate Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal
Invited Professor, Université de Montréal

Educated as an industrial designer (Masters from l’Académie d’Eindhoven en Hollande), Koen De Winter has dedicated his career to both professional practice and teaching. His projects are part of museum collections on both sides of the Atlantic, including the MoMA in New York. He has received high distinctions in his home country (Belgium) and in Québec, including an honorary doctorate in design from Université Laval.

Roger-Bruno Richard
Architect and Professor, Université de Montréal

Author of industrialized constructive systems in Asia, Africa and North America. His systems classification was promoted internationally by key publications and conferences within the field.

Theodora Vardouli
Assistant Professor
Peter Guo-hua School of Architecture, McGill University

Theodora Vardouli is Assistant Professor at McGill University’s, Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture. Her research broadly examines the effects of computation and computational technologies on discourse about design and making - with a particular focus on techniques of calculating, modelling, and representing that underlie contemporary digital media, their symbolic meanings for architectural cultures, and operational implications for creative design. Vardouli is co-editor of Computational Making (Design Studies, 2015) and Computer Architectures: Constructing the Common Ground (Routledge, forthcoming), a collection of essays that rethinks the history and historiography of architecture and the computer.