Lecture Series
October 13th, 2016
SOLD OUT ! A plea for beauty
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Thursday, October 13, 6 pm
Free – Reserve your seat online
Duration: 1 hr. 30 min.
Limited seating (120)
Multimedia Theatre at Pointe-à-Callière à Pointe-à-Callière
(In French)
Architecture is too often viewed as something elitist, unaffordable, out of reach of ordinary people. Beauty, then, is considered a luxury, an indulgence. And yet there is nothing superfluous about good architecture. A beautiful space is not an end in itself. Rather it is a way of improving our existence, our well-being, even our happiness. In the end, the goal is to create environments that enhance our lives.
Pierre Thibault
Pierre Thibault is a renowned architect whose personal process is expressed through the architectural achievements of his Atelier Pierre Thibault. His projects include the Musée d’art contemporain in Baie-Saint-Paul, the Lac du Castor villa, and Val Notre-Dame Abbey. As an eternal traveller, an admirer of the great transformative power of the seasons in Québec, an a devotee of contemplation as a way of slowing down time, Pierre Thibault also devotes a large part of his practice to building ephemeral architectural installations, delicately placed into landscapes with which they become one.
François Cardinal
François Cardinal is a Québec-based journalist who has covered a variety of sectors, including provincial politics and urban affairs, for the past 20 years. He is currently a columnist with the daily newspaper La Presse, where he began working in 2002. François Cardinal is the author of the essays Le mythe du Québec vert and Perdus sans la nature. He edited the collection Rêver Montréal: 101 idées pour relancer la métropole and collaborated on such collective works as Le Québec. Quel Québec? and L’Annuaire du Québec. François Cardinal received the President’s Award from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada in 2015 and the Prix Blanche Lemco van Ginkel from the Ordre des urbanistes du Québec in 2013 for his “significant contribution to the development of urban planning in Québec.”