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.
