Montreal's Designing Women

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Title
Montreal's Designing Women
Abstract
As the authors point out: "In the 1960s, Montreal was a Modern architectural showcase. From Place Ville Marie to Place Bonaventure to Expo 67, the city reverberated with the construction of new and remarkable buildings. Remarkable, too, for the time were the number of women architects at the centre of this activity." Among the women architects during this period were the Austrian-born Eva Hollo Vecsei, who worked on Place Bonaventure; Blanche Lemco van Ginkel, a graduate of McGill's school of architecture, who, with her husband, did the original master planning for Expo 67; Dorice Brown Walford, who received her Master's degree in architecture from McGill, was a project architect for the innovative Telephone Pavilion at Expo and went on to specialize in hospital planning for several of the major medical centres in Montreal, including the Allan Memorial Institute at the Royal Victoria Hospital; Pauline Clarke Barrable was a member of the Place Bonaventure design team; Sarina Altman Katz was senior project architect for Habitat projects in the offices of Moshe Safdie; and Janet Leys Shaw Mactavish developed innovative designs for schools on the west island of Montreal.
Publication
Canada's History
Volume
Vol. 80
Issue
no. 1
Pages
28-31
Date
December 2000-January 2001
Language
en
URL
Citation
Adams, Annmarie, and Peta Tancred. “Montreal’s Designing Women.” Canada’s History Vol. 80, no. 1 (January 2000): 28–31. http://greatwaralbum.ca/Magazine/Online-Extension/Articles/Montreal-s-Designing-Women.
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