Rabah Bousbaci

Biography

Rabah Bousbaci has been a regular professor at the School of Industrial Design since January 2005. He teaches bachelor's programs in interior design and M.Sc.A., option Design and complexity. After a five-year basic training in architecture (EPAU Algiers), he will work for six years in professional practice as an architect in Algeria and Paris, France. In 1996, he completed a master's degree in architecture (M.Arch., Université Laval) and immediately began a PhD in development (UdeM). His thesis, which he supports in 2003, is entitled "Theoretical models of architecture: from the exaltation of doing to the rehabilitation of acting in building it". He explores the thinking and concepts of some important philosophers dealing with the field of ethics in order to make transfers to illuminate the theoretical models of architecture. In 2003, he will be the recipient of the postdoctoral fellowship of the Center for Research on Ethics at the Université de Montréal, where he will stay for one year. Since 2005, he has been a member of the Executive Committee of Center for Ethics Research at the University of Montreal and also a member of the editorial board of the CREUM journal "The workshops of ethics".

Research Interest

The research interests of Rabah Bousbaci are part of the global problematic of the philosophical foundations of the disciplines of design, particularly architecture, interior design and object design. They cover ethical issues, epistemological, phenomenological and anthropological models to approach the problem of the designer and the user of built environments. In this sense, he is particularly interested in the project concept, the models and methodologies of the design processes as well as the upstream phases in project development.