L'ŒUF - Olivier, Pearl, Poddubiuk and Associates, Architects

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L'ŒUF (L'Office de l'éclectisme urbain et fonctionnel) founded in 1992, is a firm with a broad and diversified architectural practice. Operating at the forefront of mainstream architectural practice and sensitive to political and ecological issues that are often excluded from professional concerns, L'ŒUF has developed an architecture which tries to adapt to the social and environmental unrealized characteristics of a particular context, to reveal them and exploit them to make it the architectural project’s basis.

Sustainable architecture

Environmental issues are an integral part of L'ŒUF's design process, which is analogous to natural phenomena and can be summarized by the following principles: waste equals food; use current solar income and encourage diversity. In each project, L'ŒUF attempts to simulate these natural...

Affordable Housing

Daniel Pearl, Mark Poddubiuk and Bernard Olivier share a preoccupation with the design of housing and its role in the evolution and daily rituals of urban living. Both consciously and unconsciously, the design of housing is the ideal reflection of the values and aspirations of a culture. It is...

Experimental projects

Research

Over the past ten years, the partners of L'ŒUF have undertaken a number of research projects with the assistance of the Canada Council, the Conseil des Arts du Québec, CMHC, ACT, and NRC. They have also participated in international conferences on environmental building and taught and lectured...