J.B.C. Watkins Award: Architecture
Olivier Lalancette
Photo: George-Étienne Adam
Current Winner
Olivier Lalancette
Olivier Lalancette holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from McGill University. After working in Montréal, he is now pursuing graduate studies in architecture at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, in Switzerland. His master’s thesis and final project examined the landscape and urban repercussions of and challenges around the development of large hydroelectric infrastructures on the territory of the Alpine regions of the Rhône watershed, in Switzerland. Interested in the changing climatic conditions and the material dynamics of the area, Olivier Lalancette is positing the notion of soil as a structuring element of these environments’ territorial development.
What is this prize?
The J.B.C. Watkins Award: Architecture is offered to a Canadian architectural student wishing to pursue postgraduate studies outside Canada, ideally in Denmark, Norway, Sweden or Iceland.
Who created this prize?
This award is funded by a bequest from the late John B.C. Watkins.
For more information
Sarah Brown
Program Officer, Prizes
architecture-prizes@canadacouncil.ca
1-800-263-5588 (toll-free) or 613-566-4414, ext. 6004
Deadline
Annual
Prize amount
$5,000
By application
Updated guidelines will be posted 2 months prior to the deadline.
You can submit a nomination to architecture-prizes@canadacouncil.ca.
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