I guess I wanted to go into Architecture from the time I was about twelve or so. And the usual, I was good in math, I was good in art and everybody said I should be an architect. It made sense. I...
I arrived in Canada in 1949. After I arrived, I worked as a lumberjack in Northern Ontario, later as a tool and dye maker at Bell Telephone and as an inspector at the Pratt and Whitney Company,...
Well how- the question, you know, how did I get started with architecture, yes, it’s a very long story but I left France on my own when I was eighteen years old in 1959 and came to Montreal because...
Well, just briefly where I’m coming from, I was born in Montreal, but before I went to McGill, actually, I was in Quebec City. I lived in Montreal until I was ten years old and we moved to Quebec...
Well, I had a few people that influenced the decision. I had always liked drawing and I liked math and my brother, who was two years older than me, decided he was going to go into architecture and...
H.S.S.: John Bland and I met in a place called London House in Mecklenburgh Square in London. And we met as distinguished colonials who had come to the Mother Country to be shaped. And the beauty...