Papineau, Gérin-Lajoie and LeBlanc at the UQAM Centre de Design
08/11/2015.
UQAM Centre de design [Montreal] Canada
metalocus, ANDREA PORTILLO
metalocus, ANDREA PORTILLO
In 1958, three young architects – Louis-Joseph Papineau, Guy Gérin-Lajoie and Michel Le Blanc – joined forces to establish Papineau, Gérin-Lajoie, Le Blanc architectes (PGL). The firm would create some of the most technically innovative, visually memorable and symbolically charged buildings in Québec’s modern architectural movement. Now, the UQAM Centre de Design pays tribute to this office.
Poster of the exhibition "Papineau, Gérin-Lajoie, Le Blanc: Une architecture du Québec moderne, 1958-1974" at the Centre de design of the l'UQAM.
Fort Chimo Terminal by PGL Architectes. Photography © Collection privée George Adamczyk.
Peel Metro Station, October 14, 1966, by PGL Architectes. Photography © Archives de Montréal, Fonds Service des affaires institutionnelles.
Louis-Joseph Papineau residence. Photography © Collection privée Jacques-Gilles Caron. Click above to see larger image.
"Perspective" HEC Montreal's Pavilion Decelles projet by PGL Architectes. Image © HEC Decelles. Click above to see larger image.
Peel Metro Station by PGL Architectes. Image © BAnQ- Fonds PGL Architectes. Click above to see larger image.
"Perspective" Marie-Favery School by PGL Architectes. Image © BAnQ- Fonds PGL Architectes. Click above to see larger image.
Cultural Center of Cité des Jeunes at Vaudreuil, by PGL Architectes. Image © BAnQ- Fonds PGL Architectes. Click above to see larger image.
East view of the Mirabel International Airport by PGL Architectes, September 1973. Photography © Travaux Publics et Services Gouvernementaux Canada. Click above to see larger image.
Aerial view of Quebec Pavilion at Expo 67 by PGL Architectes. Photography © Archives Nationales du Canada. Click above to see larger image.
Résidence des Jeunes Filles by PGL Architectes. Photography © Collection privée Jacques-Gilles Caron.
The public is invited to discover the buildings of this office through the exhibition titled Papineau, Gérin-Lajoie, Le Blanc: Une architecture du Québec moderne, 1958-1974, opening next 12th of November at the UQAM Centre de Design. The exhibition will focus particularly on the work of the firm’s chief designer, Louis-Joseph Papineau, looking at architectural practice as a research process, with its mistakes and successes, and will present the firm’s most significant projects conceived during the Quiet Revolution, a period of intense socio-political and socio-cultural change in the Canadian province of Quebec.
Through an examination of nine exemplary projects designed between 1958 and 1974, this exhibition explores the firm’s work that was essential in creating their own personal architectural language. Well known to architects, but not so much to the general public, PGL embodied a modern architectural didactic and produced an outstanding collection of public facilities, exhibiting typological, formal and constructive innovation.
Curators.- Réjean Legault and Carlo Carbone, teachers at the School of Design, and Louis Martin, teacher at the Department of History of Art, UQAM.
Venue.- Centre de design de l'UQAM, 1440, rue Sanguinet, (corner of Sainte-Catherine East -Berri-UQAM metro-), Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Dates.- November 12, 2015 to January 17, 2016. Wednesday to Sunday, noon until 6 p.m.
Admission.- Free.
