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Québec, Canada
“Célébrer l’ordinaire” guides every brief in this Montréal studio: look hard at what’s already there, then let architecture frame its quiet beauty. Founded by Jérôme Lapierre—winner of Canada’s early-career Prix de Rome (2014) and Québec’s Prix Relève en architecture (2022)—the practice works across houses, campuses, civic buildings, and urban plans.
Projects balance strict logic with open-ended making. Early studies test light, structure, and cost; parallel experiments in the workshop probe how raw timber, plate steel, or brick might reveal fresh textures when cut or stacked a different way. The result is work that is both pragmatic and poetic: a daycare where daylight travels through a timber grille all day; a riverside pavilion whose concrete ribs weather into the shoreline palette.
Close dialogue with clients is central. Each commission begins with long site walks and ends with details drawn so clearly that builders read the intent at a glance. Teaching and research run alongside practice, pushing the studio to question assumptions and seed unplanned connections between projects.
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