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Montreal architects win $50,000 Prix de Rome
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 | 1:24 PM ET
CBC News
The founders of the Montreal architecture firm Atelier T.A.G. have won a Canada Council prize for professional architects.
Manon Asselin and Katsuhiro Yamazaki plan to use their prize to study how current socio-economic and political environments redefine the activities of young architectural offices.
Worth $50,000, the Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture is awarded annually and encourages the development of artistic excellence in contemporary architectural practice.
The prize money allows winners to travel around the world to hone their skills, develop their creativity and strengthen their presence in international architecture.
Asselin and Yamazaki plan to record interviews with young innovative architects in Europe, East Asia and New York and research their studio activities and building projects.
They plan to present their research, and compare it to the Canadian experience, in a multi-media exhibition at Pointe-à -Callière Museum in Montreal in March.
Asselin and Yamakazi, partners in life as well as in the workplace, formed Atelier T.A.G. (T.A.G. stands for "technique, architecture, graphisme") in 1997.
Both partners also teach — Asselin is adjunct professor of architecture at the University of Montreal and Yamakazi has been visiting professor and guest critic at the school of architecture at McGill University.
The partners won a competition to design the Châteauguay Municipal Library, south of Montreal, and are also designers of the Theâtre Du Vieux Terrebonne in Terrebonne, north of the city.
The firm "has won accolades for its subtle integration of avant-garde architectural concepts, historical heritage and the natural environment," the Canada Council for the Arts said in a statement.
They lead an innovative team of architects who are "constantly seeking simple, original and playful solutions to building challenges of considerable technical complexity," the council said.
In recent years, the company has received two Governor General's Medals for architecture.
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 | 1:24 PM ET
CBC News
The founders of the Montreal architecture firm Atelier T.A.G. have won a Canada Council prize for professional architects.
Manon Asselin and Katsuhiro Yamazaki plan to use their prize to study how current socio-economic and political environments redefine the activities of young architectural offices.
Worth $50,000, the Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture is awarded annually and encourages the development of artistic excellence in contemporary architectural practice.
The prize money allows winners to travel around the world to hone their skills, develop their creativity and strengthen their presence in international architecture.
Asselin and Yamazaki plan to record interviews with young innovative architects in Europe, East Asia and New York and research their studio activities and building projects.
They plan to present their research, and compare it to the Canadian experience, in a multi-media exhibition at Pointe-à -Callière Museum in Montreal in March.
Asselin and Yamakazi, partners in life as well as in the workplace, formed Atelier T.A.G. (T.A.G. stands for "technique, architecture, graphisme") in 1997.
Both partners also teach — Asselin is adjunct professor of architecture at the University of Montreal and Yamakazi has been visiting professor and guest critic at the school of architecture at McGill University.
The partners won a competition to design the Châteauguay Municipal Library, south of Montreal, and are also designers of the Theâtre Du Vieux Terrebonne in Terrebonne, north of the city.
The firm "has won accolades for its subtle integration of avant-garde architectural concepts, historical heritage and the natural environment," the Canada Council for the Arts said in a statement.
They lead an innovative team of architects who are "constantly seeking simple, original and playful solutions to building challenges of considerable technical complexity," the council said.
In recent years, the company has received two Governor General's Medals for architecture.