Hazen Edward Sise and the History of Modern Architecture at McGill, 1949–1957

The author focuses on the pedagogical framework of Montreal's postwar modernization by examining the university-based education of architects during the period preceding the Quiet Revolution. In particular, the author discusses the School of Architecture at McGill University where, during the 1940s and 1950s, students were taught a version of architectural history that presented modern architecture as a victory over historicizing forces. One of the advocates of this modern approach to architecture was the Montreal-born Hazen Edward Sise (1906-1974), hired in 1949 by McGill University to give the school's courses on the history of modern architecture. Sise promoted the virtues of modernism and decried the delay of a unique Canadian architecture.

RACAR (Revue d’art canadienne/Canadian Art Review)

Vol. 40

no. 2

27-41

2015

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