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Agnès Emery
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Jean-Pierre Hardenne
École de Design, UQAM - Université du Québec à Montréal
France Vanlaethem
Faculté des arts, UQAM - Université du Québec à Montréal

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Transcription revised by J.-P. Hardenne from [A. Emery, J.-P. Hardenne, F. Vanlaethem] Paper copy, n.d. (c.1969), Hardenne-Vanlaethem collection, ULB Archives and Architecture Library. 

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Jean-Pierre Hardenne, École de Design, UQAM - Université du Québec à Montréal

Jean-Pierre Hardenne holds a diploma as a drawing teacher from the École normale provinciale du Brabant, Brussels (1961), a diploma as an architect, with great distinction, from the École nationale supérieure d'architecture et des arts visuels de La Cambre, Brussels (1970), and a doctorate in sociology from the Université de Montréal (1978). He took part in various courses: for French-speaking teachers in planning at the University of Montreal (1970), in experimental animation and urban planning at La Cambre, and in programming and experimentation at the Education Center and the IBM Data Center in Brussels (1971). As a researcher at the Centre d'études et de recherches de l'environnement à Bruxelles (CERE), he represented Belgium at the 7th Paris Biennale (1971), with the project "Le catalyseur urbain", selected and awarded by the jury of the international competition "The City as a Significant Environment", organised by ADI-Milan. He exhibited the project "How three architects see Brussels... and you?" at the Design Center in Brussels (1972).
He was hired as a visiting professor in 1971-1972, confirmed as a regular professor in 1974, permanent in 1976, associate in 1978 and full professor in 1984. He retired in 2007 and has since been an associate professor at the UQAM School of Design. For three years, he was director of the Environmental Design module, for which he designed the programme; he founded the Department of Design, of which he was director for fourteen years; he initiated and supervised the construction of its new pavilion.
He assumed the direction of the Arts Sector [Faculty] and promoted it, as vice-dean [dean], for four years. He created the School of Design, which he directed for two years and developed graduate studies in architecture and design.

France Vanlaethem, Faculté des arts, UQAM - Université du Québec à Montréal

She graduated as an architect from the École nationale supérieure d'architecture et des arts visuels - La Cambre, in Brussels, in 1969, and obtained a doctorate from the University of Montreal in 1986, with a thesis entitled "Mouvement moderne en Belgique. Avant-garde and profession, 1919-1939". Since 1975, she has been a regular professor at the School of Design of the Université du Québec à Montréal, where she first taught courses in the history and theories of architecture and design in the environmental design programme, and then those related to the graduate diploma in modern architecture and heritage, which she has been directing since 2001. She is also qualified to supervise dissertations in art studies and theses in art history and museology, mediation and heritage.
Interested in modern and contemporary architecture and design, she has worked to disseminate projects and ideas in these fields, first as founding director of the Centre de design de l'UQAM (1981-1986) and then as editor-in-chief of the journal ARQ (Architecture-Québec, 1989-1993). Today, she focuses her research on the advent and affirmation of architectural modernity, which she observes in both Quebec and Belgium. She is co-author of L'architecture en Belgique, 1919-1939. Modernisme et Art déco (Brussels, Racine, 1996), recently republished; "Montréal, métropole, 1880-1930", presented at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, from March to May 1998 and, subsequently, at the Ottawa Museum of Fine Arts. She is one of the two curators of the exhibition. She is currently completing a SSHRC-funded study on the development of modern Montreal between 1940 and 1976.
Her expertise in the history of modern architecture is inseparable from her commitment to heritage. In Quebec, she was the first to speak out against disrespectful renovations of buildings from the 1960s; she led the popular mobilization against the refurbishment and updating of Westmount Square in 1988. She has been a member of Docomomo International since 1992 and is the founding president of Docomomo Quebec. She is a member of the Commission des biens culturels du Québec and the Conseil du patrimoine de Montréal.