Architectural Tours

A Professor Emerita at UQAM’s School of Design, France Vanlaethem has an architecture degree from the École nationale supérieure d’architecture et des arts visuels of La Cambre and a PhD in Environmental Planning and Design from Université de Montréal. Her research interests focus on the history and conservation of modern architecture. In 1996, she co-curated Montréal Métropole 1880–1933 at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and in 2012, she co-authored the anniversary book Place Ville Marie, l’immeuble phare de Montréal. On the subject of modern heritage, she has also published: Patrimoine en devenir: L’architecture moderne du Québec (2012); Conservation de l’art contemporain et de l’architecture moderne, L’authenticité en question (co-edited, 2010); La sauvegarde du patrimoine moderne (co-edited, 2012); Étude patrimoniale du Parc olympique de Montréal (2016, 2019); and Étude patrimoniale du campus de l’UQAM, Pavillons Judith-Jasmin et Hubert-Aquin (2019). At the School of Design, she established the Graduate Diploma in Modern Architecture and Heritage program. She is the founding President of Docomomo Québec, the local chapter of Docomomo International. 

Nicola Tullio Pezolet is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History at Concordia University. He obtained a PhD in History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art from MIT in 2013. He has published articles and critical reviews on different artists, architects, and exhibitions in academic journals such as Grey Room, October, Future Anterior, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, and Journal of Canadian Art History. In recent years, he has examined the question of the synthesis of the arts and considered the intersections between the sacred and profane in the postwar period in Western Europe and North America. He is currently working on the body of churches designed by Roger D’Astous.