Main entry:

Sise, Hazen, 1906-1974.

Title & Author:

Hazen Sise fonds, 1933-1959.

Description:

63 items.

Restrictions:

Access by appointment only.

Notes:
Consists of 43 drawings, 18 negatives, 1 map, and 1 book. The negatives, taken by Sise, illustrate the architect's participation at the 4th Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM), held in 1933, and at the Comité International pour la Résolution des Problèmes d'Architecture Contemporaine (CIRPAC), held in 1934. They depict some of the participants including Le Corbusier, László Moholy-Nagy, Alvar Aalto and Fernand Léger, as well as Georges Braque. The fonds also documents the design of Beaver Lake Pavilion, built for the City of Montréal between 1955 and 1959 as part of the redevelopment of Mount Royal Park. In addition to drawings, a topographical map of the park (Mount-Royal - Design Map - 1877), as well as a 1955 book published by the City Planning Department of the City of Montreal (Montreal Master Plan - Open Spaces) are also included in the fonds.
File 1. CIAM IV, CIRPAC and London -- File 2. Beaver Lake Pavilion for the city of Montreal.

Biographical note:

Hazen Sise: born in Montréal, Québec, 1906; died in Montréal, Québec, 1974. Hazen Sise studied architecture at both McGill University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the 1930s, Sise went to London, England, and Paris, France, where he was involved with the Modern Architectural Research (MARS) Group (a group of British architects active between 1933 and 1957) and took part in many international conferences on Modern architecture. At the end of the 1930s, he moved to Spain where he volunteered as an ambulance driver during the civil war (1936-1939). Upon his return to Canada before the end of the Second World War, Sise was employed with the National Film Board of Canada serving as the Canadian representative in Washington, D.C. At the end of the 1940s, he worked for the firm McDougall Smith and Fleming. Around 1953-1955, he co-founded the firm Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold, Michaud and Sise (later ARCOP), dissociating from the firm in 1968. During this period, Sise worked on the Beaver Lake Pavilion (1955-1958) with Guy Desbarats (1925-2003). This project was one of the first Modernist buildings constructed in Montréal and was followed shortly thereafter by other structures that changed the face of the downtown core of the city in the 1960s. These include Place Ville-Marie (1957-1961), Place des Arts (1960-1963), and Place Bonaventure (1964-1967).

Resources:
Finding aid
Finding aid

Subject:

Sise, Hazen, 1906-1974.
Pavillon du Lac-aux-Castors (Montréal, Québec)
Comité international pour la réalisation des problèmes d'architecture contemporaine.
International Congresses for Modern Architecture (4th : 1933 : Athens, Greece)
International Congresses for Modern Architecture
International Congress for Modern Architecture (4th : 1933 : Athens, Greece)

Form/genre:

Fonds (collections)
Architectural drawings (visual works)
Negatives (photographs)

Holdings:

Location: Library archives collection 263357
Call No.: AP112
Status: Available