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SUMMARY:Forum Lecture: Top Down / Bottom Up
DESCRIPTION:Ottawa Art Gallery, 10 Daly Ave., Ottawa, Ont. 



2024-2025 Forum Lecture Series



Speakers: Hubert Pelletier and Yves de Fontenay, Pelletier de Fontenay, Montreal, Que.



Free and open to the public



Presented by the Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism



The lecture will present recent works from a top-down / bottom-up logic. On the one hand, the Pelletier de Fontenay studio approaches architecture as an autonomous system and works with typological and historical models and references. On the other hand, there is the conviction that project specificities are always generative. The intersection between these two perspectives produces architectural objects that are clear and rigorous, but always contextual.













About Pelletier de Fontenay



Pelletier de Fontenay is a Montreal-based architecture firm founded in 2010 by Hubert Pelletier and Yves de Fontenay. The studio has a strong design focus geared towards its growing portfolio of public projects, including museums, schools, cultural centres, and libraries. The studio is also involved in the design of private residences, housing, pavilions, exhibitions, and urban planning. The studio’s approach is based on the principle that different conditions produce different architectural expressions. Designs are developed by navigating the tension between internal and external forces, treating architecture both as an autonomous system with historical references as well as a product shaped by project-specific factors.



This dynamic interplay results in rigorous yet always contextual architectural objects. This feedback loop between top-down conceptual logics and bottom-up emergent forces produces what they describe as relational objects: an architecture that forms intricate bonds to its site and program, while retaining an unmitigated conceptual coherence.











































The Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism gratefully acknowledges the support of the Forum Lecture Founding Sponsors: 




Arcadis | IBI Group



Charlesfort Developments



GRC Architects | A Provencher Roy Company



Hobin Architecture



Merkley Supply



Trinity Group
LOCATION:Ottawa Art Gallery, Mackenzie King Bridge, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1N 0C5
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