Jean-Pierre Chupin

Jean-Pierre Chupin (born September 3, 1960 in Nantes, France) is a French and Canadian architect, researcher, and architectural theorist who specializes in reasoning by analogy, qualitative practices, architectural competitions and awards of excellence. He is a professor at the School of Architecture, Faculty of Environmental Design, Université de Montréal. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Architecture, Competitions and Mediations of Excellence (CRC-ACME). He coordinates the Laboratory for the Study of Potential Architecture (L.E.A.P) since 2012. Chupin graduated in 1985 from both the Nantes School of Architecture (France) and the University of Portsmouth (Great Britain) where he worked under the direction of Professor Geoffrey Broadbent, a pioneer in design thinking. After translating the French edition of Alberto Pérez-Gómez's seminal work, Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science (1983), he emigrated to Canada in 1988 to study at McGill University. He obtained a master's degree in architectural history and theory from McGill University (1990) and a Ph.D. from the Université de Montréal (1998) under the direction of Alain Findeli, a specialist in Bauhaus pedagogy. In the 1990s, he taught at the design department of the Université du Québec à Montréal, then at the Écoles nationales supérieures d'architecture de Toulouse and Lyon in France. Since 2001, he has been a professor at the Université de Montréal. Chupin is a member of the Ordre des architectes du Québec (OAQ) and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC). Chupin co-founded the Laboratoire d'étude de l'architecture potentielle (L.E.A.P.) in 2002 with Georges Adamczyk and Denis Bilodeau. The L.E.A.P. lab is an inter-university and interdisciplinary team that today brings together 12 researchers from the 4 Montreal universities. In 2003-2004, Chupin was Scholar-in-Residence at the Canadian Centre for Architecture where he produced a deep analysis of Città Analoga by Aldo Rossi.