Showing All of 162 results for "Architects, Builders & Planners"

Catherine Mary Wisnicki

Catherine Mary Wisnicki, née Chard, architect (b at Winnipeg 19 Sept 1919). An influential practitioner and educator, Wisnicki was also the first woman to graduate from the School of Architecture at McGill University in 1943.

Eva Matsuzaki

Eva Matsuzaki, née Pupols, architect (b Latvia 27 Feb 1944). Matsuzaki immigrated with her family to the US at age 5. She attended Cornell University (1961-66), graduating with a Bachelor of Architecture.

Étienne Verrier

Étienne Verrier, military engineer (b at Aix-en-Provence, France 4 Jan 1683; d at La Rochelle, France 10 Sept 1747). After 17 years with the engineer corps, Verrier served at LOUISBOURG as chief engineer 1724-45.

Ross & Macdonald

Ross & Macdonald, one of the largest and most prolific architectural offices in Canada prior to WWII, was founded as Ross & MacFarlane in Montréal in September 1904 by George Allen Ross (b at Montréal 1879; d there 1946) and David Huron MacFarlane (b at Montréal 1875; d at St. Hilaire, Que 1950).

Ramsay Traquair

Ramsay Traquair, architect and educator (b at Edinburgh, Scot 29 Mar 1874; d at Guysborough, NS 26 Aug 1952).

Leslie Raymond Fairn

Leslie Raymond Fairn, architect (b at Waterville, NS 26 June 1875; d at Halifax 13 Aug 1971). Fairn attended Acadia University, studied architecture in Boston, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with Edward Elliot, architect of the Halifax City Hall. In 1904 he began a career that lasted 65 years.

Roger D'Astous

Roger D'Astous, architect (b at Montréal, Que 3 March 1926; d at Montréal, Que 5 April 1998). A graduate of the Montréal School of Fine Arts in 1952, he went on to win a Taliesin Fellowship, spending from August 1952 to July 1953 in the studios of Frank Lloyd Wright in Wisconsin and Arizona.

Gordon Ryan Arnott

Gordon Ryan Arnott, architect (b at Winnipeg 1 Aug 1926; d at Banff 7 May 1996). Gordon Arnott received, along with a bachelor of architecture from the University of Manitoba in 1948, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada's Gold Medal.

David Stirling

David Stirling, architect (b at Galashiels, Scot 6 Dec 1822; d at Charlottetown 13 Apr 1887). Stirling immigrated to St John's in 1847 and worked on the rebuilding of the town after the fire of 1846.

John Wells

John Wells, architect (b at Norwich, England c1790; d at Montréal 26 April 1864). Trained as a carpenter in the county of Norfolk, Wells became a Freeman in 1820.

James Charles Philip Dumaresq

James Charles Philip Dumaresq, architect (b at Sydney, NS 18 Dec 1840; d at Halifax 20 Dec 1906). Educated at Acadia, Dumaresq began a practice in 1870 that eventually extended throughout the Maritime provinces, Newfoundland, Ontario and Québec and from the eastern US to the W Indies.

Hans Blumenfeld

Hans Blumenfeld, urban and regional planner, educator, author, consultant (b at Osnabrück, Ger 18 Oct 1892; d at Toronto, Ont 30 Jan 1988).