OFA is happy to announce that The Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec has awarded the office with a Type B Research and Creation Grant for a 2008-2009 proposal entitled Architecture Prototypée: L’exploration d’une démarche architecturale appuyée par la fabrication digitale.
Open Form Architecture will present their work at the next Pecha Kucha night, on the 3rd May, 2008 in Montréal. The event will take place at the SAT - Society for Arts and Technology.
Open Form Architecture has been published in the Quebec Architecture magazine, ARQ #141, on the subject of Jeunes Pratiques / Young Practices as one of Québec's exciting new practices.
Maxime Moreau and Darrel Ronald have both returned to Montréal to join Maurice Martel. This move will allow OFA to collaborate more effectively.
Maxime Moreau and Maurice Martel participate in the New Kind of Science (NKS) Summer School, University of Vermont (USA). You can read the official blog of Fred Meinburg from Wolfram and his report on Maurice's project.
OFA launches a new blog through wordpress: Open Form Architecture
Darrel Ronald and three other Rotterdam architects launch a new blog for the Rotterdam architecture scene: Dysturb.Net
Darrel Ronald joins the TU Delft (Chair of Metropolitan and Regional Design) to teach the Urbanism Studio for Master's Chinese Students on exchange from the universities of Schenzen and Nanjing.
Maxime Moreau wins 3rd Place for his entry in the City of Skyscrapers International Competition as part of EUPHORIA, the 3rd International Architecture Biennale Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Darrel Ronald wins an Honourable Mention for his entry in the City of Skyscrapers International Competition as part of EUPHORIA, the 3rd International Architecture Biennale Ljubljana, Slovenia.
OFA receives an informal mention from the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction at the Quebec annual Awards of Excellence meeting for the project, Structural Crystallisation
Maxime Moreau wins the Saia Barbarese Bursary, University of Montreal
Maxime Moreau wins the Cardinal Hardy Travel Scholarship to study Housing in Los Angeles
Maxime Moreau wins the Royal Architecture Institute of Canada's (RAIC) Gold Medal in Architecture for his innovative thesis project at the Université de Montréal.
Darrel Ronald is a finalist for the Royal Architecture Institute of Canada's (RAIC) Gold Medal in Architecture.
Darrel Ronald, Maxime Moreau and Marie-eve Marchand win 1st Prize during a short competition for the Studio International 2005 at the Université de Montréal
Darrel Ronald and Maxime Moreau win 2nd Prize during a competition for the ACSA/ASA Charette 2005 in Chicago (USA). Representing the Université de Montréal, the competition focused on innovative steel structural design. The site for the competition was the new Millennium Park in Chicago, facing the recently built Pritzker Pavilion by Frank Gehry.
Maxime Moreau and Maurice Martel participate in the construction of a bedroom at the Ice Hotel, Quebec (CA)
Maxime Moreau (CA) and Daniel Caud (FR), win Honourable Mention for the Il Ponticello Lachine Canal International Ideas Competition
Maurice Martel wins the College of Governors Travel Scholarship 2004-2005 from the Quebec Order of Architects to study Non-Standard Architecture practice supported by digital tools