Membership Category

  • Regular

Institution

  • Université de Montréal - UdeM

Discipline(s)

  • Architecture and Design
  • Design

Expertises

  • Ethics in Planning
  • Social Housing
  • Social Responsibility
  • Urban Vulnerability
  • Protected Area Management
  • Urban Design and Architecture

Biography

Gonzalo Lizarralde is interested in understanding project processes and analyzing risk, social housing and informality in urban environments. He explores the causes and consequences of rapid urban transformation triggered by natural disasters, climate change, socio-political conflict and economic instability. Since 2017, he has held the Fayolle-Magil Construction Chair in Architecture, Building and Sustainability. He is also director of the IF research group (grif) and the Observatoire universitaire de la vulnérabilité, la résilience et la reconstruction durable (Œuvre durable). He is one of the founders of i-Rec, an international network of specialists in risk reduction and post-disaster reconstruction. He has directed or participated in major research projects with a total budget of over $10.5 million (including approximately $4.7 million in direct funding for UdeM). He is the author of the books Unnatural Disasters: Why most responses to risk and climate change fail and some succeed, and The Invisible Houses: Rethinking and designing low-cost housing in developing countries, as well as the co-editor of several additional books. Since 2016, Gonzalo has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada's College of Emerging Scholars and Creators in Art and Science, the country's foremost recognition of emerging intellectual leadership.

Affiliated research axes

Change and Transition Management

Planning Optimization

Resource and Product Maximization

Policy levers

The RRECQ is supported by the Fonds de recherche du Québec.
Fonds de recherche - Québec