From left to right, Grégory Taillon, Marc-André Carignan, and Martin Houle, at Claude Cormier’s Place de l’Horloge in Montreal. Photo by Émilie Delorme / CC Lab
Kollectif. a free weekly newsletter dedicated to sharing industry news from the AED professions in the province of Quebec, is marking its 15th anniversary.
The newsletter was started by architect Martin Houle in July 2006, who continues to act as a quasi-volunteer in running the newsletter. He has since been joined by architectural journalist Marc-André Carignan and architect Grégory Taillon, who became collaborators in the Kollectif team in 2014 and 2019, respectively.
The newsletter disseminates industry announcements including information on events, exhibitions, competitions and projects in Quebec. It also maintains a job board and a directory of the 100 firms in Quebec whose work it follows. The newsletter has been archived with the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BanQ) since 2019. Among Houle’s proudest accomplishments are Kollectif’s Architects Annual Golf Tournament, which brings together some 400 architects and has raised over a quarter of a million dollars for events, humanitarian and cultural associations, university programs and museums dedicated to architecture.
While Kollectif was originally intended to disseminate existing content, Carignan brought original content to it, by merging his blog with the platform and producing original photography and videos fo...