The McGill School of Architecture (officially the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture since 2017) is one of eight
academic units constituting the
Faculty of Engineering at
McGill University
McGill University (french: link=no, Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec
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in
Montreal
Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple ...
,
Quebec
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, Canada. Founded in 1896 by
Sir William Macdonald, it offers accredited professional and post-professional programs ranging from undergraduate to PhD levels.
Since its founding, the school has established an international reputation and a record of producing leading professionals and researchers who have helped shape the field of architecture, including
Moshe Safdie
Moshe Safdie ( he, משה ספדיה; born July 14, 1938) is an architect, urban planner, educator, theorist, and author, with Israeli, Canadian, and American citizenship. He is known for incorporating principles of socially responsible des ...
,
Arthur Erickson
Arthur Charles Erickson (June 14, 1924 – May 20, 2009) was a Canadian architect and urban planner. He studied Engineering at the University of British Columbia and, in 1950, received his B.Arch. (Honours) from McGill University. He is known ...
,
Raymond Moriyama
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and the founders of
Arcop
Arcop (also ARCOP) was an architectural firm based in Montreal, renowned for designing many major projects in Canada including Place Bonaventure, Place Ville-Marie and Maison Alcan. The firm was originally formed as a partnership under the name Af ...
.
Having existed during both
World Wars
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and the development of
Modernism
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, the school experienced many changes in terms of enrollment and architectural ideologies over the course of its history. Beginning with a class of only three students, the school expanded many times and relocated on multiple occasions to different buildings both on and off of McGill's main campus. It was the first architecture school in Canada to offer a graduate
planning program and a PhD in architecture,
and the first department within the Faculty of Engineering to graduate women.
Several of its directors and staff founded architecture schools at other universities.
The School of Architecture is located inside the
Macdonald-Harrington Building
The Macdonald-Harrington Building (formerly the Macdonald Chemistry Building) is a building located at 815 Sherbrooke Street West, on McGill University's downtown campus in Montreal, Quebec. Designed and built in Renaissance Revival style by Si ...
, designed by
Sir Andrew Taylor, on the McGill University downtown campus.
The
School of Urban Planning, which became independent from the School of Architecture in 1970, occupies the fourth floor.
The School of Architecture also operates many auxiliary facilities, including workshops, laser cutting and 3D-printing facilities, research labs and various libraries and collections both within the Macdonald-Harrington Building and elsewhere on McGill's campus. The school is accredited by the
Canadian Architectural Certification Board (CACB) and is recognized in the United States by the
National Council of Architectural Registration Boards
The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) is a nonprofit corporation comprising the legally constituted architectural registration boards of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puert ...
(NCARB).
The
Architecture Students' Association represents undergraduate students at the school
and the
Graduate Architecture Students' Association represents graduate and post-graduate students.
All registered students automatically become members of these associations. The school also maintains a chapter of the
American Institute of Architecture Students
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as well as bilateral exchange agreements with several architecture schools in other countries.
Undergraduate and graduate admissions are highly competitive, with the school enrolling approximately 7% and 17% of applicants, respectively, in recent years. The school also has one of the highest percentages of women representation at McGill.
As of Fall 2019, there were 163 undergraduate, 90 graduate and 20 PhD students enrolled.
On September 26, 2017, the school was renamed the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture following a
C$12 million gift from architect and McGill graduate Peter Fu.
History
McGill's School of Architecture, founded in 1896, is one of the oldest architecture schools in North America and the second to be established in Canada.
Initially a
Beaux-Arts style school based in the
Arts and Crafts movement, it became a
Bauhaus
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-based institution under new directorship after
World War II
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. The school was the first in the country to offer a graduate planning program and a PhD in architecture.
Early history
![William Christopher Macdonald](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/William_Christopher_Macdonald.jpg)
In 1890, the
Province of Quebec Association of Architects adopted a constitution requiring compulsory examination for people in Quebec who wished to become professional architects. This created a need for more systematic architectural education, and the absence of such opportunities caused many aspiring Canadian architects to study in the United States, where ten architecture schools had already been established.
Canada did not yet have any formal architectural education, and the only forms of architectural education in Montreal were periodical lectures by local practising architects at McGill's affiliated religious colleges. This new need for architectural education is an important factor that led to the founding of the School of Architecture at McGill University.
In 1896,
Sir William C. Macdonald created a chair in architecture at McGill which was led by
Stewart Henbest Capper, a former student at the
École des Beaux-Arts
École des Beaux-Arts (; ) refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth centur ...
in Paris. Macdonald also provided funds for the purchase and maintenance of the school's initial equipment. At this time, the school had two architecture studios which occupied two rooms of the top floor of the original Macdonald Engineering Building. The school offered a four-year course to prepare students for professional accreditation, and as it remains today, the first year was preparatory, with all courses taken jointly by architecture and engineering students. The first graduating class was composed of only three students, and Professor Capper gave all lectures in architecture, while Henry F. Armstrong, the only other full-time professor, taught art classes and modelling.
![McDonald Engineering Building, McGill University, Montreal, QC, about 1895](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/McDonald_Engineering_Building%2C_McGill_University%2C_Montreal%2C_QC%2C_about_1895.jpg)
In 1903, Capper returned to England to establish the School of Architecture at
Victoria University of Manchester
The Victoria University of Manchester, usually referred to as simply the University of Manchester, was a university in Manchester, England. It was founded in 1851 as Owens College. In 1880, the college joined the federal Victoria University. Afte ...
, which was the fourth university architecture school to be established in the British Commonwealth, after
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 ...
(1890),
University of Liverpool
, mottoeng = These days of peace foster learning
, established = 1881 – University College Liverpool1884 – affiliated to the federal Victoria Universityhttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2004/4 University of Manchester Act 200 ...
(1894) and McGill (1896).
The second director of the school,
Percy Nobbs, arrived at McGill in 1903 to only two students. Nobbs is credited with designing the
McGill coat of arms three years into his tenure.
As director, he divided the four-year course into two streams, the BArch degree and the BSc degree in Architectural Engineering. By 1906, he was teaching six classes, so he hired three new staff to assist him, including his former colleague
Cecil Burgess. Nobbs believed students should be exposed to architecture in practice, and designed the McGill Union (today the
McCord Museum) across from McGill's
Roddick Gates. After the Macdonald Engineering Building burned down in 1907, Nobbs designed the new building in its place, and the School of Architecture moved to its ground floor. By 1912, the school had grown to eight students, and the next year,
Philip J. Turner joined the faculty.
In 1913,
Ramsay Traquair
Ramsay Heatley Traquair Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, FRSE Fellow of the Royal Society of London, FRS (30 July 1840 – 22 November 1912) was a Scottish naturalist and palaeontologist who became a leading expert on fossil fish.
Tra ...
became the new director. He is credited with designing the McGill flag, which he presented to the university in 1921 and has since flown above the
Arts Building.
World War I
At the onset of World War I, many faculty and students were called to war. Nobbs attained the military rank of
major, while twelve of his students did not return. Four among these students have tributes named in their honour at McGill, including Gordon H. Blackader, for whom the
Blackader-Lauterman Library is named, Hugh McLennan, namesake of the ''Hugh McLennan Memorial Travelling Scholarship'', Murdoch Laing, of the ''Murdoch Laing Prize'' and John Louis Robertson, of the ''Louis Robertson Book Prize''. In addition to the aforementioned four, eight other McGill architects were added to the
Roll of Honour of World War I. Another seven graduates returned from the war as distinguished soldiers, with one receiving the
Distinguished Service Order
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, four the
Military Cross
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The MC ...
and two the French ''
Croix de Guerre''.
Post-war
After the war, Nobbs continued to teach many classes. In 1920,
Ernest Cormier
Ernest Cormier OC (December 5, 1885 – January 1, 1980) was a Canadian engineer and architect. He spent much of his career in the Montreal area, designing notable examples of Art Deco architecture, including the Université de Montré ...
joined the faculty for one year to teach design
and the next year, Traquair organized the school's first "sketching school" in
Quebec City
Quebec City ( or ; french: Ville de Québec), officially Québec (), is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, and the metropolitan area had a population of 839,311. It is t ...
,
a tradition that has been carried on annually to various destinations since as a credited course.
Arthur Lismer, a member of the
Group of Seven
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, taught this course at the school for over a decade even after his retirement in 1955.
In 1939, Turner succeeded Traquair, who had completed a 26-year tenure as director. At this time, McGill Principal
Lewis Williams Douglas
Lewis Williams Douglas (July 2, 1894March 7, 1974) was an American politician, diplomat, businessman and academic.
Early life and education
Douglas was the son of James Douglas, Jr., a mining executive employed by the Phelps Dodge Company, and ...
considered discontinuing the architecture program due to low enrollment; however he faced a great deal of backlash from Turner and several famous architects from Montreal, and eventually abandoned the idea.
Under Turner's tenure, support for co-education was made,
and in 1943
Catherine Mary Wisnicki became the first woman to graduate from the school. Wisnicki was the fourth woman member of the
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and the second to join the
Architectural Institute of British Columbia The Architectural Institute of British Columbia (AIBC) is the regulatory body responsible for registering and licensing all architects in the Province of British Columbia in Canada
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.
Mid-century
Following the retirement of Turner as director of the School of Architecture,
John Bland became director in 1941. In 1945, a new five-year program was adopted for the next two decades. After the
Second World War
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, the School of Architecture increased its staff and doubled its physical accommodation due to the surge in university enrollment. This required the school to briefly use McGill's
Dawson College
Dawson College (French: ''Collège Dawson)'' is an English-language public general and vocational college in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
The college is situated near the heart of Downtown Montreal in a former nunnery on approximately 12 acr ...
, a
satellite campus
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in St. Jean, Quebec, to accommodate its students. By 1947, the school had become so cramped that a repurposed building on University Street was vacated to make room for the school's students. This new building expanded the school's physical size immensely, and enrollment grew to 133 full-time students by the 1949–1950 academic year.
At the same time as the school's relocation, Professor Frederic Lasserre left the school to establish a new architecture school at the
University of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks among the top thre ...
.
Lasserre's resignation, coupled with the new influx of students at the school resulted in the hiring of several new faculty members, which included
Robert Esdaile and
Harold Spence-Sales.
In 1946, Spence-Sales became Associate Professor of Design, and he and Bland established the first post-graduate architecture and planning program in Canada. Beginning in this academic year, the professional program was extended to six years, with first-year students following the engineering curriculum.
During the early 1950s, three new teachers were added to the faculty, including Hazen Sise and Guy Desbarats who later founded
Arcop
Arcop (also ARCOP) was an architectural firm based in Montreal, renowned for designing many major projects in Canada including Place Bonaventure, Place Ville-Marie and Maison Alcan. The firm was originally formed as a partnership under the name Af ...
with Fred Lebensold,
Ray Affleck, and
Dimitri Dimakopoulos – all former students or teachers of the school.
![McConnell Engineering Building 2007](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/McConnell_Engineering_Building_2007.jpg)
In January 1958, the school was temporarily relocated to two townhouses on
McTavish Street when the University Street building was demolished for the construction of the McConnell Building. On November 30, 1959, the new building was inaugurated and the School of Architecture moved to its north-eastern wing, where it remained for decades. Enrollment was steady during the 1950s due to the limitations of physical space, but after the McConnell Building underwent a four-story expansion in the 1960s enrollment grew again.
In 1961, McGill Professor Douglas Shadbolt left the school to found the first architecture program at the Nova Scotia Technical College (later known as
Technical University of Nova Scotia
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TUNS was officially founded as the Nova Scotia Technical College on 25 April 1907. On 1 April 1997 it was merged into Dalhousie Universit ...
UNS in
Halifax, and 8 years later founded the School of Architecture (later the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism) at
Carleton University
Carleton University is an English-language public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1942 as Carleton College, the institution originally operated as a private, non-denominational evening college to serve returning Wo ...
in
Ottawa, Ontario
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.
In 1966,
John C. Parkin and
Harry Mayerovitch joined the faculty as visiting professors. In the following years,
Ray Affleck, Fred Lebensold,
Andre Vecsei,
Warren Chalk
Warren Chalk (1927–1988) was an English architect. He was a member of Archigram. Amongst the group he was known as "the catalyst of ideas".
Early life and education
Chalk, (John) Warren (1927–1987), architect, was born on 7 July 1927 at 32 ...
and
Moshe Safdie
Moshe Safdie ( he, משה ספדיה; born July 14, 1938) is an architect, urban planner, educator, theorist, and author, with Israeli, Canadian, and American citizenship. He is known for incorporating principles of socially responsible des ...
also became visiting professors.
In the late 1960s, the six-year architecture program became a four-year program with the introduction of
CEGEP
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s in Quebec.
1970–present
In 1970, Spence-Sales retired from the faculty. Later that year, the graduate planning program was restructured by Professor David Farley, which resulted in the establishment of the independent School of Urban Planning. Over the next decade and a half, the school changed directorship three times, with Professor Norbert Schoenauer heading the school from 1972 until 1975, Professor Derek Drummond from 1975 until 1985 and Professor Bruce Anderson in 1985.
In 1987, the school moved from the Engineering building to the
Macdonald-Harrington Building
The Macdonald-Harrington Building (formerly the Macdonald Chemistry Building) is a building located at 815 Sherbrooke Street West, on McGill University's downtown campus in Montreal, Quebec. Designed and built in Renaissance Revival style by Si ...
.
Macdonald-Harrington was initially named the Macdonald Chemistry Building but was renamed after Bernard Harrington, the building's first chemistry professor. The building is one of the many donations made by
Sir William Macdonald and was designed by Sir Andrew Taylor for the Departments of Chemistry and Mining in 1896. The building was renovated for the architecture and urban planning departments by
Arcop
Arcop (also ARCOP) was an architectural firm based in Montreal, renowned for designing many major projects in Canada including Place Bonaventure, Place Ville-Marie and Maison Alcan. The firm was originally formed as a partnership under the name Af ...
in 1987.
In 1989, the School of Architecture's PhD program was introduced. In 1990, Derek Drummond returned for another six years as the school's director, replaced by Professor David Covo in 1996. In 1997, the PhD program was officially approved by the Minister of Education
as the first in Canada,
and the school had its first PhD graduate, Lily Chi. In 1999, the professional BArch degree was replaced by the new MArch I professional degree, leaving the BSc in architecture as the only undergraduate architecture degree. Two years later, the school graduated its first class in the MArch I program.
In 2003, philanthropist
David Azrieli
David Joshua Azrieli, ( he, דוד יהושע עזריאלי; 10 May 1922 – 9 July 2014) was an Israeli-Canadian real estate tycoon, developer, designer, architect, and philanthropist. With an estimated net worth of US$3.1 billion as of ...
endowed an annual lecture at the school, called the
David J. Azrieli Lecture Series.
In 2005, McGill Architecture graduate
Gerald Sheff endowed the Gerald Sheff Visiting Professorship in Architecture faculty position, which enabled the recruitment of leading individuals in architecture to teach at the school. The first appointee in 2006 was
Dan Hanganu
Dan Sergiu Hanganu, (January 27, 1939 – October 5, 2017) was a Romanian-born Canadian architect. Based in Montreal, Quebec, he designed a number of prominent Quebec buildings, including the new wing of the Pointe-à-Callière Museum, the HEC Mo ...
, and subsequent hires include John Shnier (the first Canadian to win the
Prix de Rome
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in Architecture),
Steve Badanes,
Atelier TAG
Atelier TAG is a Canadian architecture firm based in Montreal, Quebec that specializes in architecture, interior design and urban design. The firm was founded in 1997 by McGill School of Architecture graduates Manon Asselin and Katsuhiro Yamazaki ...
,
Matthew Lella (partner at
Diamond Schmitt Architects
Diamond Schmitt Architects is a Canadian architectural firm founded in 1975. It is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The firm was founded by architects Jack Diamond and Donald Schmitt.Robinson, John. "Architecture for the People." ''Toront ...
), and
Gilles Saucier.
After an 11-year tenure as director, Covo stepped down and Professor
Michael Jemtrud became director of the school in 2007. The next year, Jemtrud founded the
Facility for Architectural Research in Media and Mediation (FARMM) at the School of Architecture with more than $1 million in funding from the
Canada Foundation for Innovation The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI; french: Fondation canadienne pour l'innovation, ''FCI'') is an independent not-for-profit organization that invests in research facilities and equipment in Canada's universities, colleges, research hospital ...
. FARMM produced many award-winning projects and serves as the research hub for the school.
In 2011, Professor
Annmarie Adams became the first woman director of the School of Architecture. From 2015 to 2021, the director was Professor Martin Bressani.
Since September 2021, the director has been Professor David Theodore.
Directors
Buildings and resources
Macdonald-Harrington Building
![McGill University Building3](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/McGill_University_Building3.jpg)
The
Macdonald-Harrington Building
The Macdonald-Harrington Building (formerly the Macdonald Chemistry Building) is a building located at 815 Sherbrooke Street West, on McGill University's downtown campus in Montreal, Quebec. Designed and built in Renaissance Revival style by Si ...
is the home of the Peter Guo-hua School of Architecture, and also contains the
School of Urban Planning on the fourth level.
As architecture students progress through the years of the undergraduate program, they move through the design studios as well, with each year's respective studio located on a different level of the Macdonald-Harrington Building. The Master's studios are located on the top level,
while the PhD studios are located on the same level as the first-year undergraduate studios and the school's administration. The ground level, which can be accessed from the Frank Dawson Adams (FDA) building,
contains the lecture hall known as "G-10", which hosts
the school's lecture series.
The ground floor also contains the
Architecture Students' Association (ASA) Supply Store where students can purchase drafting kits,
as well as the architecture student lounge, known as the "Cellar", which is accessible 24/7 to architecture students.
The first floor, above the ground level, contains the second-year undergraduate studio as well as three "crit rooms", where project critiques are given, and the largest among them the "exhibition room" due to its common hosting of exhibitions of students' and outside guests' work. The third-year undergraduate studios are located on the third floor of Macdonald-Harrington.
Workshop
The multi-level workshop is located in the basement and ground floor of the Macdonald-Harrington building, and provides students with their model-making needs. The workshop contains various equipment and power tools for working with wood, plaster, glass, acrylics and metal, and also contains other facilities, including a fumehood for sandblasting, spray painting, casting and mould-making. Workshop facilities include a Laser Cutting Room with three Universal Laser Cutter machines that students can use free-of-charge to cut and engrave acrylic, MDF, wood, styrene and other sheet materials. The workshop also includes 3D-printing machines, two of which are located inside the third-year studios on the third floor.
McGill University as a whole has a 3D-printing hub called "the Cube" which offers 3D-printing services to McGill students.
Media Centre
The Media Centre is located in the Macdonald-Harrington building and is available exclusively to architecture students, faculty and staff at McGill.
The Centre includes a traditional dark room for developing film photographs, a photography studio/light room for students to photograph their work as well as a printing room with multiple large format printers and scanners. The Media Centre also lends out digital cameras, lenses, tripods and light tents to students.
FARMM
The Facility for Architectural Research in Media and Mediation (FARMM) is the research hub of the McGill School of Architecture, located on the first floor of the Macdonald-Harrington Building. Founded in 2008 with funding from the
Canada Foundation for Innovation The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI; french: Fondation canadienne pour l'innovation, ''FCI'') is an independent not-for-profit organization that invests in research facilities and equipment in Canada's universities, colleges, research hospital ...
, FARMM connects students and researchers with colleagues internationally, and provides modern infrastructure for simulation, imaging, and fabrication.
Libraries and collections
John Bland Canadian Architecture Collection
![WCNA 2017 - Canadian Architecture Collection tour group in McLennan](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/WCNA_2017_-_Canadian_Architecture_Collection_tour_group_in_McLennan.jpg)
The
Canadian Architecture Collection (CAC) is one of the
McGill Libraries' Special Collections. It is located on the fourth floor of the
Redpath Library
Opened in 1893, Redpath Hall was McGill University's first dedicated library building. It is situated at 3461, rue McTavish (3461, McTavish Street). Through numerous renovations, the library was extended to the south with the addition of the Re ...
building. Students and professors at the Schools of Architecture and Urban Planning are required to document their work and entrust it with the Canadian Architecture Collection for safe-keeping, and several Canadian architects also bequeath their archives to the collection.
As of 2020, the Collection consisted of over 200,000 drawings, photographs, slides, models and maps as well as 400 metres of papers of nineteenth- and twentieth-century architects in Canada.
The largest fond of major Canadian architects is that of
Moshe Safdie
Moshe Safdie ( he, משה ספדיה; born July 14, 1938) is an architect, urban planner, educator, theorist, and author, with Israeli, Canadian, and American citizenship. He is known for incorporating principles of socially responsible des ...
, who donated his archives to the collection with an ongoing bequest since 1990. The CAC also includes at least 770 papers from the course "History of Architecture in Canada".
Architecture Slide Library
The Architecture Slide Library contains more than 40,000 images, of which nineteenth- and twentieth-century images are the most heavily used. They are stored in Room 310 of the Macdonald-Harrington building, while slides from earlier periods are stored in the Media Centre.
Orson Wheeler Architectural Model Collection
The Orson Wheeler Architectural Model Collection contains over two hundred scale architectural models of structures from around the world. The models were created out of
Roma Plastilina between 1940 and 1990 by Orson Wheeler, a sculptor and former professor at McGill's School of Architecture.
A small collection of 40 works are on display in the front vestibule of the Macdonald-Harrington building.
Blackader-Lauterman Library of Architecture and Art
The Blackader-Lauterman Library of Architecture and Art is the university's parent library for the Schools of Architecture and Urban Planning, and is located on the upper floor of the Humanities and Social Sciences Library.
The library was established through a donation from the family of Gordon H. Blackader, one of the first students to study at the School of Architecture who died during World War I. The library was renamed the Blackader-Lauterman Library of Architecture and Art during the 1940s after the family of sculptor
Dinah Lauterman made a donation to the university in her memory.
The library contains over 79,000 monographs and journal subscriptions, and has a substantial collection of over 3000 rare books from 1511 to 2009 housed in the
Rare Books and Special Collections Library
Rare Books and Special Collections is a part of ROAAr at the McGill University Library in Montreal (Canada), whose mandate is to "support the teaching, learning and research needs of McGill students and faculty from all disciplines, and the wider ...
at McGill.
This includes a collection of original works by
Vitruvius
Vitruvius (; c. 80–70 BC – after c. 15 BC) was a Roman architect and engineer during the 1st century BC, known for his multi-volume work entitled '' De architectura''. He originated the idea that all buildings should have three attribut ...
,
Palladio, and
G. B. Piranesi, among others.
Partnerships
Canadian Centre for Architecture
The School of Architecture maintains ties with the
Canadian Centre for Architecture
The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA; french: Centre Canadien d'Architecture) is a museum of architecture and research centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located at 1920, rue Baile (1920, Baile Street), between rue Fort (Fort Street ...
(CCA), which houses one of the largest architectural design collections in the world, a 20-minute walk away from the downtown campus. The CCA collaborates regularly with the school, and together organized the 2019 CCA Interuniversity
Charrette
A charrette (American pronunciation: ), often Anglicized to charette or charet and sometimes called a design charrette, is an intense period of design or planning activity.
The word ''charrette'' may refer to any collaborative process by which ...
which took place over a week in November and involved more than 10 universities in Canada.
Organization and administration
The School of Architecture reports to the Dean of the
Faculty of Engineering at McGill.
Due to its small size, the school is attached to the Faculty of Engineering for administrative purposes, but stands apart from the engineering departments and is headed by a director rather than a chairman.
As of 2020, the school's faculty consists of 44 academic staff
and seven administrative and technical staff.
The current director is Professor Martin Bressani.
As of 2018, student to faculty ratios fall between 12:1 and 15:1 for design studios, as established by the Canadian Architectural Certification Board (CACB). Students are often employed as part-time assistants to allow for greater access to facilities within the school.
The school has been the recipient of several endowments, including over 50 scholarships and awards, over a dozen fellowships, several lecture series
and a
C$1 million donation from
Gluskin Sheff + Associates in 2005, subsequently matched by the school in 2008 to fund the annual Gerald Sheff Visiting Professorship in Architecture.
On September 26, 2017, the school was the recipient of a $12 million gift from Chinese architect and McGill graduate Peter Guo-hua Fu, which resulted in the renaming of the school.
According to the CACB, approximately $500,000 of this donation is being employed annually outside of the school's base operating budget.
Academics
The School of Architecture offers a professional program in Architecture comprising a Bachelor of Science in architecture (BSc
rch and professional Master of Architecture (MArch) degree, as well as post-professional graduate programs leading to a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and post-professional Master of Architecture (MArch) degree. The school has a reputation for excellence in teaching, with all of its professors being either practicing architects or holding professional degrees and/or PhDs,
and architecture professors often being awarded teaching awards proportionately more often than other departments within the Faculty of Engineering relative to their respective sizes.
Professional programs
* BSc(Arch) – 3 years, 100 credits
* MArch (Professional):
** Design Studio – 1.5 years, 45 credits, or
** Design Studio (Directed Research) – 2 years, 60 credits
In Canada, the MArch (Professional) degree is accredited by the
Canadian Architectural Certification Board (CACB), and is recognized in the United States by the
National Council of Architectural Registration Boards
The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) is a nonprofit corporation comprising the legally constituted architectural registration boards of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puert ...
(NCARB).
Post-professional research programs
* MArch (Non-Thesis):
** Architectural History and Theory – 45 credits
** Urban Design and Housing – 45 credits
* PhD
Admissions
The McGill School of Architecture has the smallest undergraduate entering class of any architecture school in Canada, as well as one of the smallest professional Master of Architecture programs.
With a maximum capacity of 48 undergraduate students in the first year undergraduate studio (BSc
rch and 35 students in both of the Master's (MArch 1 and MArch II) studios,
the school has one of the most selective and competitive sets of program offerings in the country with one of the lowest overall application-to-acceptance ratios.
Generally, about 5–10 students from outside Quebec who plan to study architecture for their undergraduate degree will spend their first year at McGill in "U0", taking the necessary engineering prerequisites required for the 3-year BSc (Architecture) program at the School of Architecture. Students coming from Quebec
CEGEP
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s enter directly into the BSc (Architecture) program, or first-year undergraduate (U1), but are required to have received a
DEC in either pure and applied science or health sciences, as these degrees fulfill the engineering prerequisites for the Architecture program.
Offers of acceptance into the program are based on a unique review process including an evaluation of a portfolio of works and extracurricular involvement, in addition to grades. In the 2010–2011 academic year, there were 687 applications with portfolios to the undergraduate BSc Architecture program with only 51 spaces, giving an overall applications to enrolments ratio of 7.42%.
As of 2018, the number of spaces has been reduced to 48.
With the exception of the new Bioengineering degree at McGill, for Quebec
CEGEP
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students, admissions to the School of Architecture represent the highest average
R score of students accepted into the Faculty of Engineering however in contrast to the high average R score, the lowest score admitted can sometimes be closer to the engineering average due to the importance of the portfolio in the admissions process.
Each year, the Master's program receives over 200 applicants, of which approximately 35 are admitted. Generally, about half of these students obtain their undergraduate degree from McGill, either from the BSc (Arch) program or another at the university.
The School of Architecture has one of the highest percentages of women representation at McGill, with an overall ratio of female-to-male students of approximately 2:1. As of fall 2019, there were 119 female and 44 male undergraduate students, and 54 female and 36 male graduate students enrolled at the school.
Student life
Student associations
Architecture Students' Association (ASA)
The Architecture Students' Association (ASA) is a society within the School of Architecture that is not-for-profit and student-run. The society represents all undergraduate students in the School of Architecture, organizes student activities and affairs and speaks for students regarding issues at McGill.
The ASA is chaired by the President and run by a council of six vice-president portfolios: Academic, Internal, External, Administration, Finance and Student Life. A student representative from each undergraduate year is also elected to sit on the council.
Part of the ASA's mandate is to maintain the ASA Supply Store where students can purchase drafting kits as well as the architecture lounge, also known as the "Cellar".
Since 2011, the ASA has been part of the
Engineering Undergraduate Society (EUS) at McGill, and is also a member of the Canadian Architecture Students' Association (CASA).
Graduate Architecture Students' Association (GASA)
The McGill Graduate Architecture Students' Association (GASA) is a student-run society representing all graduate students at the School of Architecture. GASA is known to hold "Late Night" events on Thursdays, popular among students from all programs in the school.
American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS)
As of 2019, the School of Architecture has established a chapter of the
American Institute of Architecture Students
The American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) is an independent, nonprofit, student-run organization providing programs, information, and resources on issues critical to architecture and the experience of education. The core focus of AI ...
, an international, non-profit, student-run organization dedicated to providing progressive programs, information and resources on critical issues to architecture students.
Exchange and Study Abroad
The Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture has close ties to several architecture schools across the world and has formal bilateral exchange agreements on a departmental level with seven schools in particular, including
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts ( da, Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi - Billedkunst Skolerne) has provided education in the arts for more than 250 years, playing its part in the development of the art of Denmark.
History
The Royal Dani ...
in
Copenhagen
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,
Politecnico di Milano
The Polytechnic University of Milan () is the largest technical university in Italy, with about 42,000 students.
The university offers undergraduate, graduate and higher education courses in engineering, architecture and design.
Founded in 18 ...
in
Milan
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,
Tongji University
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in
Shanghai
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,
École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville,
École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Grenoble
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* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
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,
Université catholique de Louvain in
Brussels
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TU Wien in
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. These bilateral agreements make it easy for undergraduate architecture students at McGill to go on exchange.
Students can also spend an exchange semester abroad at any of McGill University's 160+ partner institutions as long as they offer architecture exchanges, however these are more difficult to coordinate due to the competitive nature of university-wide exchanges.
Lecture series
Each year, the School of Architecture presents public lectures, exhibitions and symposia showcasing leading architects and important figures in the field. These lectures are organized by various individuals and organizations affiliated with the school. Lecture Series include lunchtime "Brown Bag" lectures organized by the McGill Architecture Students' Association, evening lectures sponsored by local Montreal firms such as Provencher Roy &
NEUF Architect(e)s,
and most notably, the annual
David J. Azrieli Lecture in Architecture which has brought in
starchitect
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s from all over the world since 2003,
including seven
Pritzker Prize laureates.
Notable lecturers
*
Douglas Cardinal
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(2019–2020)
*
Carme Pigem (2018–2019)
*
Odile Decq
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(2018–2019)
*
Brigitte Shim
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&
Howard Sutcliffe (2017–2018)
*
David Adjaye
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(2016–2017)
*
Adam Caruso
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Practice
Caruso St John gained international recognition for its designs of public spaces. The practice came to public attention with The ...
(2015–2016)
*
Bruce Kuwabara
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(2014–2015)
*
Bjarke Ingels (2013–2014)
*
Jürgen Mayer (2012–2013)
*
Thom Mayne
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(2011–2012)
*
Shigeru Ban
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(2010–2011)
*
Gregory Henriquez
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(2010–2011)
*
Peter Eisenman (2009–2010)
*
Michael Rotondi
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(2008–2009)
*
Moshe Safdie
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(2007–2008)
*
Nanako Umemoto (2007–2008)
*
Paulo Mendes da Rocha
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Mendes da Rocha attended the Mackenzie Presbyterian University College of Architecture, graduating in 1954. Working almost exclusively in Brazil, Mendes da Roc ...
(2006–2007)
*
Glenn Murcutt
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(2005–2006)
*
Daniel Libeskind (2004–2005)
*
Jack Diamond (2004–2005)
*
Will Alsop
William Allen Alsop (12 December 1947 – 12 May 2018) was a British architect and Professor of Architecture at University for the Creative Arts's Canterbury School of Architecture.
He was responsible for several distinctive and controversia ...
(2002–2003, 2004–2005)
*
Steven Holl (2003–2004)
*
Jacques Herzog
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(2002–2003)
Notable alumni and faculty
Alumni
*
Adam Caruso
Caruso St John is a London-based architectural firm established in 1990 by Adam Caruso and Peter St John.
Practice
Caruso St John gained international recognition for its designs of public spaces. The practice came to public attention with The ...
(BArch 1986) – co-founder of
Caruso St John
Caruso St John is a London-based architectural firm established in 1990 by Adam Caruso and Peter St John.
Practice
Caruso St John gained international recognition for its designs of public spaces. The practice came to public attention with Th ...
,
Stirling Prize
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winner
*
Alina Payne (BArch 1977) – professor of History of Art and Architecture at
Harvard University
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*
Amale Andraos
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(BArch 1996) – founder of New York-based architecture firm WORKac
*Andre Vecsei (MArch 1973) – co-founder of Vecsei Architects with wife
Eva Vecsei
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Biography
Vecsei was born Eva Hollo in ...
*Anne Cormier (BArch 1982) – co-founder of Atelier Big City, 1998
Prix de Rome
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winner
*Annie Lebel (BSc
rch1989, BArch 1991) – co-founder of Atelier In Situ, 2001 Prix de Rome winner
*
Arthur Erickson
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(BArch 1950) – architect of
Robson Square
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, the
Canadian Embassy
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Overview
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and
Roy Thompson Hall
*
Blanche van Ginkel (BArch 1945) – first woman to head a faculty of architecture in Canada and be awarded a fellowship by the
RAIC
*
Catherine Chard Wisnicki (B. Arch. 1943) – first woman architecture graduate at McGill and one of the first women registered architects in Canada
*
Dimitri Dimakopoulos (BArch 1955) – of
Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold, Sise, designed
Place Ville-Marie
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and
1000 de La Gauchetiere
*
Dorice Walford (MArch 1958) – one of the first Canadian women in architecture to specialize in designing buildings for institutions
*Eric Bunge (BSc
rch1989, BArch 1991) –
FAIA
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Fellowship is bestowed by the institute on AIA-member ...
, co-founder of nARCHITECTS, 2005 Prix de Rome winner
*
Frances Bronet
Frances Bronet is a Canadian architect and academic administrator, currently serving as president of the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.
Education
Bronet holds three undergraduate degrees from McGill University, including a Bachelor of ...
(BSc
rch1977, BArch 1978) – president of the
Pratt Institute in
Brooklyn
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,
New York
*
Gavin Affleck
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(BArch 1985) – architect and son of
Ray Affleck
*Gerald Sheff (BArch 1964) – founder of
Gluskin Sheff + Associates Inc. and benefactor of the Gluskin Sheff Travel Scholarship at McGill
*
Gregory Henriquez
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(MArch History & Theory program 1988) – Vancouver-based architect
*
Guy Desbarats (BArch 1948) – co-founder of Montreal-based architectural firm
Arcop
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*Hal Ingberg (BSc
rch1983, BArch 1985) – architect of
Palais des congrès de Montréal
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, 1993 Prix de Rome winner
*
Harold Lea Fetherstonhaugh (BArch 1909) – architect of many buildings on McGill's campus, including Douglas Hall and
William and Henry Birks Building
*
Harry Mayerovitch (BArch 1933) – architect, artist and cartoonist
*Howard Davies (BSc
rch1982, BArch 1983) – Professor of Practice at the school, co-founder of Atelier Big City, 1998 Prix de Rome winner
*
Janet Leys Shaw Mactavish (BArch 1947) – architect of the
McIntyre Medical Sciences Building
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at McGill
*
John Campbell Merrett
John Campbell Merrett (August 26, 1909 – November 3, 1998), was a Canadian architect whose most noteworthy work was the interior design of Montreal's Central Station.
Merrett was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Biography
Early life
The fou ...
(BArch 1931) – staff architect for
Canadian National Railway and town planner of
Pointe-Claire, Quebec
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*
Karl Fischer (BSc
rch1971, BArch 1972) – New York-based architect and benefactor of the Karl Fischer Scholarship at McGill
*Katsuhiro Yamazaki (BSc
rch1994, BArch 1996) – co-founder of
Atelier TAG
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, 2007 Prix de Rome winner
*
Lucien Lagrange (BArch 1972) – former partner at
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and founder of
Lucien Lagrange & Associates
*
Ludger Lemieux
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– architect known for his Art Deco buildings in Montreal, notably
Atwater Market
*Manon Asselin (BSc
rch1990, BArch 1992, MArch 2001) – co-founder of Atelier TAG, 2007 Prix de Rome winner
*
Maxwell M. Kalman (BArch 1931) – designed over 1,100 projects in Quebec, including Canada's first shopping centre
*
Dimitri Dimakopoulos (BArch 1955) – notable Greek-Canadian architect
*
Melvin Charney (BArch 1958) – architect known for designing the
sculpture garden
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A sculpture garden may be private, owned by ...
at the
Canadian Centre for Architecture
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*
Moshe Safdie
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(MArch 1961) – architect of
Habitat 67
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,
Marina Bay Sands,
Jewel Changi Airport
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and the
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
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*
Peter Oberlander (BArch 1945) – architect and Canada's first professor of Urban and Regional Planning
*Randy Cohen (BSc
rch1981, BArch 1982) – co-founder of Atelier Big City, 1998 Prix de Rome winner
*
Raymond Affleck (BArch 1947) – co-founder of
Arcop
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*
Raymond Moriyama
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(MArch 1957) – architect of
Ottawa City Hall
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,
Bata Shoe Museum and
Scarborough City Centre
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*
René Menkès (BArch 1955) – co-founder of
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, architect of
CN Tower
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*
Robert John Pratt (BArch 1933) – politician and architect
*
Robert Jolicoeur, landscape architect and designer of
FEI equestrian show jumping courses
*
Robert Libman
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(BArch 1985) – politician and architect
*Robert Magne (BArch 1976) – architect of the
Bell Centre
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*Robert Mellin (MArch 1984) – president of the
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
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History 1880 to 1890
The title of Royal Canadian Academy of Arts was received from Queen Victoria on 16 July 1880. The Governor General ...
*
Robert Schofield Morris (BArch 1923) – architect and
RIBA Gold Medal
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recipient
*Stéphane Pratte (BSc
rch1989, BArch 1991) – co-founder of Atelier In Situ, 2001 Prix de Rome winner
*
Ted Remerowski (BSc
rch1970) – film producer
*
Hazen Sise (transferred) – co-founder of
Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold, Sise
*
Witold Rybczynski
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Early life
Rybczynski was born in E ...
(BArch 1966, MArch 1972, DSc 2002) – architectural writer/researcher
*
Alexandre Trudeau
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– filmmaker, journalist, founding member of the
Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation
Current and former faculty
*
Martin Bressani – professor (current) and former director of the school
*
Alberto Pérez-Gómez Alberto Pérez-Gómez (born 24 December 1949) is an architectural historian and theorist known for taking a phenomenological approach to architecture. He lives in Montreal.
Biography
Born December 24, 1949, in Mexico City he graduated as an eng ...
– professor (retired)
*
Annmarie Adams – professor (current) and former director of the school
*
Andre Vecsei – visiting professor
*
Andrew Taylor – taught freehand and model drawing
*
Arthur Lismer – member of the
Group of Seven
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, taught from 1941 to 1955
*
Cecil Burgess – began teaching in 1906
*
Dan Hanganu
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– architect of the
Pointe-à-Callière Museum
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and the
HEC Montréal
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building
*Douglas Shadbolt – director of architecture schools at
Technical University of Nova Scotia
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TUNS was officially founded as the Nova Scotia Technical College on 25 April 1907. On 1 April 1997 it was merged into Dalhousie Universit ...
(1961–1968),
Carleton University
Carleton University is an English-language public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1942 as Carleton College, the institution originally operated as a private, non-denominational evening college to serve returning Wo ...
(1968–1979) and
University of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks among the top thre ...
(1979–1990), taught at McGill's School of Architecture from 1958 to 1961
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Ernest Cormier
Ernest Cormier OC (December 5, 1885 – January 1, 1980) was a Canadian engineer and architect. He spent much of his career in the Montreal area, designing notable examples of Art Deco architecture, including the Université de Montré ...
– taught from 1919 to 1920
*Frederic Lasserre – founder of the School of Architecture at the
University of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks among the top thre ...
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Fred Lebensold – co-founder of
Arcop
Arcop (also ARCOP) was an architectural firm based in Montreal, renowned for designing many major projects in Canada including Place Bonaventure, Place Ville-Marie and Maison Alcan. The firm was originally formed as a partnership under the name Af ...
, taught from 1949 to 1955
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Gavin Affleck
Gavin Affleck (born October 11, 1958), FRAIC, is a Canadian architect known for the design of cultural institutions and public spaces. He is the founding partner of the Montreal firm Affleck de la Riva alongside Richard de la Riva, and is the son ...
– visiting professor
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Gentile Tondino – renowned artist, taught from 1959 to 1999
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Gilles Saucier – founder of
Saucier + Perrotte, designed the
Elizabeth Wirth Music Building
The Elizabeth Wirth Music Building (formerly the New Music Building) is one of two buildings belonging to the Schulich School of Music at McGill University, the other being the Strathcona Music Building directly adjacent to it. The building is l ...
on McGill campus, course lecturer (current)
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Guy Desbarats – co-founder of
Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold, Sise
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Hazen Sise – co-founder of
Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold, Sise
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John Bland – architect, served as director of the school for 31 years
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John C. Parkin – co-founder of
John B. Parkin Associates, visiting professor
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Kiel Moe – Gerald Sheff Chair of Architecture (former)
*Matthew Lella – principal at
Diamond Schmitt Architects
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, visiting professor
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Michael Jemtrud – associate professor (current)
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Moshe Safdie
Moshe Safdie ( he, משה ספדיה; born July 14, 1938) is an architect, urban planner, educator, theorist, and author, with Israeli, Canadian, and American citizenship. He is known for incorporating principles of socially responsible des ...
– visiting professor
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Percy Nobbs – architect of many buildings on McGill's campus, including the
Redpath Library
Opened in 1893, Redpath Hall was McGill University's first dedicated library building. It is situated at 3461, rue McTavish (3461, McTavish Street). Through numerous renovations, the library was extended to the south with the addition of the Re ...
and
Osler Library buildings, taught from 1903 to 1939
*Peter Guo-hua Fu – Professor of Practice (current), eponym of the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture
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Peter Rose – architect of
Canadian Centre for Architecture
The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA; french: Centre Canadien d'Architecture) is a museum of architecture and research centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located at 1920, rue Baile (1920, Baile Street), between rue Fort (Fort Street ...
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Ramsay Traquair
Ramsay Heatley Traquair Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, FRSE Fellow of the Royal Society of London, FRS (30 July 1840 – 22 November 1912) was a Scottish naturalist and palaeontologist who became a leading expert on fossil fish.
Tra ...
– third director of the school, taught from 1913 to 1939
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Ray Affleck – co-founder of
Arcop
Arcop (also ARCOP) was an architectural firm based in Montreal, renowned for designing many major projects in Canada including Place Bonaventure, Place Ville-Marie and Maison Alcan. The firm was originally formed as a partnership under the name Af ...
, visiting professor from 1967 to 1975
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Ricardo L. Castro – associate professor (current) since 1983
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Stewart Henbest Capper – first director of the school, taught from 1896 to 1903
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Warren Chalk
Warren Chalk (1927–1988) was an English architect. He was a member of Archigram. Amongst the group he was known as "the catalyst of ideas".
Early life and education
Chalk, (John) Warren (1927–1987), architect, was born on 7 July 1927 at 32 ...
– founding member of
Archigram
Archigram was an avant-garde architectural group formed in the 1960s that was neofuturistic, anti-heroic and pro-consumerist, drawing inspiration from technology in order to create a new reality that was solely expressed through hypothetical ...
, visiting professor
See also
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List of architecture schools in Canada
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Macdonald-Harrington Building
The Macdonald-Harrington Building (formerly the Macdonald Chemistry Building) is a building located at 815 Sherbrooke Street West, on McGill University's downtown campus in Montreal, Quebec. Designed and built in Renaissance Revival style by Si ...
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McCall MacBain Arts Building
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Stephen Leacock Building
The Stephen Leacock Building, also known simply as the Leacock Building, is a building located at 855 Sherbrooke Street West, on the McGill University downtown campus in Montreal, Quebec. The building was named after Stephen Leacock, a well-known ...
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Elizabeth Wirth Music Building
The Elizabeth Wirth Music Building (formerly the New Music Building) is one of two buildings belonging to the Schulich School of Music at McGill University, the other being the Strathcona Music Building directly adjacent to it. The building is l ...
Notes
References
External links
Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture Official WebsiteAIAS Official Website
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