Denis Bilodeau

Biography

Denis Bilodeau is the Co-founder of the Laboratory for the Study of Potential Architecture (LEAP) Associate Researcher, Design Knowledge Systems Research Institute, Delft University of Technology Associate Researcher, UNESCO Chair in Environment and Landscape, University of Montreal Member of the Institute of Research in History of Architecture (IRHA). Areas of expertise: History and theory of architecture Architectural design Project Epistemology Creation process

Research Interest

Architect by training, Denis Bilodeau specialized in the history and theory of architecture at the graduate level, at Columbia University in New York and at the Ph.D., at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. His research focuses on the cultural and cognitive dimensions of contemporary architectural project practices, and on the epistemology of the architectural project. In particular, they address issues relating to the roles of precedents, typology, analogy, schematization, abstraction, serial procedures and figures of myth and utopia in architectural design. Co-founder in 2002 of the University of Montreal's Laboratory for the Study of Potential Architecture (LEAP), he worked, among other things, on the implementation of the Catalog of Canadian Architectural Competitions (CCC) and is interested in the place architectural competitions in the construction and transformation of contemporary collective imaginaries. In 2006, he curated the exhibition Concours d'architecture et imaginaire territoriale: cultural projects in Quebec 1991-2005 presented at the Design Center of the Université du Québec à Montréal and at the Pavillon de l'Arsenal in Montreal. Paris, and at the House of Architecture and Engineering in Luxembourg.