Maurice Martel graduated from Laval University in Quebec city with a master’s degree in architecture. Characterized by the excellence of his academic profile and achievements, he won several awards and a prestigious grant among all Quebec schools of architecture.
Martel worked on eminent projects in the United States and Canada. He collaborated with several renowned European firms as Zaha Hadid, Servo, NL Architects and Veech Media Architecture. Martel also co-founded Open Form Architecture in 2005. The members of Open Form Architecture have collaborated with architects like Ramoisy Tremblay Architects since 2001.
OAQ: Ordre des architectes du Québec > Stagiaire / Intern Architect
2007 >
New Kind of Science Summer School
University of Vermont, Burlington (US)
2002 - 2004 >
M.Arch.
Laval University, Québec (CA)
2000 - 2003 >
BSc Arch
Laval University, Québec (CA)
1996 - 1999 >
DEC in Architecture
Chicoutimi Cegep (CA)
2005 + >
Insitu Architects
Montréal (CA)
2005 >
Zaha Hadid, Architect
London (UK)
2005 >
NL Architects
Amsterdam (NL)
2004 - 2005 >
Veech Media Architecture
Vienna (AT)
2004 + >
Open Form Architecture
Montréal (CA)
-Co-Director
2002 + 2004 >
Ramoisy Tremblay Architect
Québec (CA)
2003 >
Boudreau Fortier Associates
Québec (CA)
2000 >
Bernard-Cloutier Architects
Québec (CA)
1998 - 1999 >
Prefabricated Concrete Alma
Alma (CA)
2004 >
College of Presidents Scholarship (OAQ)
Quebec Order of Architects, Québec (CA)
2004 >
Best Essay Project
Laval University, Québec (CA)
2004 >
Inscription in the RAIC Table of Honour
Royal Architecture Institute of Canada (CA)
Born in Montréal, Canada, Maxime Moreau studied architecture at Université Laval and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and received his Master in Architecture from Université de Montréal in 2005. Maxime has been recognized and awarded for his work across the fields of architecture. In 2005, he was awarded with the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Student Medal for the excellence and outstanding final design project / thesis and received the Cardinal-Hardy scholarship to study the evolution of the image, identity and integration of residential structures in Los Angeles
Maxime’s work is heavily influenced by cultural processes, communication and representation, technologies and programming, dynamic systems, self-organizing structures, and computational geometries, and most importantly through collaborative questioning, challenging and creation.
Having worked on multi-disciplinary projects across North America Maxime brings a broad perspective and a high level of criticism. Besides, he has a long history of initiating projects through strong leadership. While studying in the Master’s program at the Université de Montréal, he cofounded Open Form Architecture with Maurice Martel and Darrel Ronald.
OAQ: Ordre des architectes du Québec > Stagiaire / Intern Architect
2007 >
New Kind of Science Summer School
University of Vermont, Burlington (US)
2006 >
New Kind of Science Summer School
Brown University, Providence (US)
2003 - 2005 >
M.Arch.
Université de Montréal (CA)
2003 -2003 >
Étudiant d'échange
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH)
2000 - 2003 >
BSc Arch
Laval University, Québec (CA)
1996 - 1999 >
DEC in Architecture
André-Laurendeau Cegep, Montréal (CA)
2005 + >
Callas Shortridge Architects
Los Angeles (US)
2004 >
André-Laurendeau College
Montréal (CA)
2004 >
Griffin Enright Architects
Los Angeles (US)
2004 + >
Open Form Architecture
Los Angeles (US)
- Co-Director
2003 - 2004 >
Ramoisy Tremblay Architects
Québec (CA)
2003 >
Sylvie Pfaehler Architecte
Lausanne (CH)
2002 >
Daoust Lestage Architects
Montréal (CA)
2000 - 2001 >
Catherine Vézina Architect
Montréal (CA)
Jean Raymond Architect
Montréal (CA)
2005 >
RAIC Gold Medal
Royal Architecture Institute of Canada (CA)
2005 >
Travel Scholarship
Cardinal Hardy, Montréal (CA)
2005 >
Award of Excellence
Saia Barbarese Topouzanov Architects, Montréal (CA)
1999 >
Travel Scholarship
Wallonie-Bruxelle (BEL)
1999 >
Award of Excellence
André-Laurendeau College, Montréal (CA)
Darrel Ronald is a Canadian born (1977) architect and urbanist based in Rotterdam, Netherlands. He has been recognized and awarded for his work across the fields of photography, writing and architecture. Darrel has studied photography and worked as an editor in newspaper publishing before completing professional degrees in Architecture. Having worked on multi-disciplinary projects across North America and Europe, he brings a broad perspective and a high level of criticism.
Darrel has a long history of initiating projects through strong leadership. During his Bachelor's degree, he was awarded a Faculty of Architecture Endownment Fund from the University of Manitoba (CA) to start a new publication titled the AUM Design Extra. He later cofounded Open Form Architecture / L'Architecture Open Form with Maxime Moreau and Maurice Martel while studying in the Master's program at the Université de Montréal (CA). The office has continued to win design awards in Canada, The United States and Europe. And in Rotterdam (NL) he has recently cofounded Dysturb.Net with architects Thomas Stellmach, Martin Sobota and Claudia Strahl.
Darrel's work is heavily influenced by cultural processes, communication and representation, technology and programming, geometry and structure, and most importantly through collaborative questioning, challenging and creation. While completing a Master's degree, he worked for a media research group, MedialabAU, at the Université de Montréal, and was a Master's studio assistant, especially guiding students through new technologies and software applications during the design process.
Since joining Maxwan architects + urbanists office in Rotterdam, Darrel quickly became project leader and has just finished leading the office's largest masterplan to date, Project A101, a new city for 320.000 inhabitants on the periphery of Moscow, Russia.
OAQ: Ordre des architectes du Québec > Stagiaire / Intern Architect
2003 - 2005 >
M.Arch. - Master's Architecture
Université de Montréal (CA)
- Computer Aided Design option; Graduated with Honours.
1997 - 2002 >
B.Env.Des.(Arch) - Bachelor of Environmental Design
University of Manitoba (CA)
- Architecture option; Graduated with Honours.
2005 + >
Maxwan Architects + Urbanists
Rotterdam (NL)
- Project Leader
2004 + >
Open Form Architecture
Rotterdam (NL)
- Co-Director
2004 - 2005 >
MedialabAU
Université de Montréal (CA)
- Video Creation and Research Assistant
2002 - 2003 >
Hal Ingberg Architect
Montréal (CA)
- Intern Architect
2001 - 2002 >
AUM Design Extra
Winnipeg (CA)
- Founder, Editor, Writer, Designer
1998 - 2001 >
McNally Robinson Booksellers
Winnipeg (CA)
- Bookseller
2006 >
TU Delft
Delft (NL)
- Tutor: Randstad Urbanism Summer Studio
2005 >
Université de Montréal
Montréal (CA)
- Master's Design Studio Assistant
2004 >
André-Laurendeau College
Montréal (CA)
- Invited Critic
2000 >
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg (CA)
- Photography Instructor
2005 >
Finalist, RAIC Gold Medal
Royal Architecture Institute of Canada (CA)
2003 - 2005 >
Dean's Honours List
- M.Arch. Université de Montréal (CA)
2002 >
Faculty of Architecture Endownment Fund
University of Manitoba (CA)
1997 - 2002 >
Dean's Honours List
B.E.D. University of Manitoba (CA)
2001 >
UMSU Scholarship for Excellence
University of Manitoba (CA)
1999 >
Best Individual Photograph
Prairie Landscapes Photo Competition (CA)
1998 >
Best Essay on Design
University of Manitoba (CA)
2006 >
City of Skyscrapers
3rd International Architecture Biennale Ljubljana (SI)
2006 >
MedialabAU - Desynchronized Public Spaces
Maison de l'architecture, Annecy (FR)
2005 >
RAIC Gold Medal Exhibition
Centre de l'éxposition, Montréal (CA)
2005 >
MedialabAU - Desynchronized Public Spaces
Society for Arts and Technologies, Montréal (CA)
2004 >
CCA Charette 2004
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal (CA)
2003 >
Groupe e2 Competition
École Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne, (CH)
2003 >
Groupe e2 Competition
Pavilion de l'arsenal, Paris (FR)
2003 >
CCA Charette 2003
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal (CA)
2007+ >
Dysturb Architecture Web Magazine (www.Dysturb.Net)
Writer
2007 >
English Editor for Power to the House
Powerhouse Company (NL)
2006 >
Translations of Hans Ulich Obrist Interviews (FR to EN)
Domus d'Autore: Post Occupancy - OMA/AMO + Domus Magazine (NL/IT)
2006 > "Desynchronized Public Spaces" video project by the MedialabAU
Ai:Architecture and Ideas - Vol.5, No.2 (CA)
2005 >
"Open Form Architecture"
On|Site Review #14 (CA)
2001 - 2002 >
Editor, Writer (Numerous Articles)
AUM Design Extra (CA)
2002 >
"Architecture at the Barricades"
On|Site Review #6 (CA)
2002 >
Exploring the Urban Condition, Groupe e2
Warehouse #11 (CA)
2002 >
Anarcho-Urbanism Manifesto
Warehouse #10 (CA)
2001 >
"Vacant City, Broken Heart"
The Network Journal (CA)
2000 > "Krakow Industrial, Nowa Huta (PL)"
Warehouse #8 (CA)
2000 >
"meetings meanings - memory weights"
Critical Distance, AceArt Inc (CA)
1997 - 2001 >
Articles, Art Criticism, Photography
The Manitoban newspaper (CA)