Ian Chodikoff Ian Chodikoff is an architect, educator, and journalist, currently Director of Architecture Canada. He directed Fora Strategic Planning Inc., a consultancy focused on urban-related issues such as public health, social inclusion, economic development, multiculturalism and migration. Ian was the Editor of Canadian Architect magazine from 2003-2012 and remains its Editorial Advisor. He holds a Master of Architecture from the University of British Columbia and a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Ian has taught and lectured in various universities and cities, has served on numerous design juries, and has volunteered for various causes relating to engaging a greater sense of community. He is a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. In 2013, he ended his three-year tenure as a member of the City of Ottawa’s Urban Design Review Panel which provided him with a privileged overview of Ottawa’s development process. As for juries and competitions, Ian is currently the professional advisor for an ideas competition relating to increasing the level of private market rental housing development in York Region. Ian also has considerable experience conducting various policy research and visualization projects relating to the intersection of social issues and the built environment. He curated an installation focusing on the importance of designing for those suffering from dementia at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre in 2014 as part of his ongoing investigations relating to linking various aspects of public health and urban design. In 2008, Ian began studying the effects of ethnicity and multiculturalism on the process of urban development in our cities with a specific focus on the Greater Toronto Area. Further to this, other independent studies have included work on the influence of transnational migration between Italy and Senegal.
Jean-Pierre Chupin Jean-Pierre Chupin is professor at the Université de Montréal School of Architecture, where is holds the Research Chair on Competitions and Contemporary Practices in Architecture and co-directs of the Laboratoire d’étude de l’architecture potentielle (L.E.A.P). Jean-Pierre is an architecture graduate from Nantes (France), and Portsmouth (UK). He holds a Masters in History and Theory of Architecture from McGill University and a PhD from the Université de Montréal. He has taught at the Université du Québec à Montréal (Uqam), Toulouse School of Architecture and Lyon School of Architecture before joining the Université de Montréal in 2000. Historian and theoretician of architectural design and architectural ideas, Jean-Pierre Chupin has been working for more than two decades on the role of “analogical thinking” in architecture. The first volume of his research on Analogy and Theory in Architecture (On life, on the city, and on design thinking, even) has been published in French in 2010 by Swiss Infolio Editions (in the series Projet et Théorie). The second edition, revised and augmented, came out in 2013 and is currently under translation for a publication in English. Prof. Chupin conducts research projects on contemporary architecture, competitions processes and practical and theoretical issues such as tectonics, architectural judgment and architectural excellence and experimentation. He coordinates the ongoing updates of two major competition databases (libraries of projects): in Canada (Canadian Competitions Catalogue) and in Europe (EUROPAN-FRANCE competitions (1989-2009)).
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