Article: Montreal Thinks Big.(The '60s: Montreal Thinks Big )

Compared with dowdy London in the 1960s or decaying New York, Montreal provided a vision of urban reconstruction inspired largely by CIAM principles. Currently showing at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, The '60s: Montreal Thinks Big argues that the central planning of highways, housing, parks and a new metro system brought architecture and engineering together in a way that clearly recalls La Ville Radieuse. Many ideas had their roots in the radical teaching of visionaries such as Peter Collins in the architecture and planning school at McGill University. And the often provocative agendas of students such as Moshe Safdie and practice professors such as John Bland ...

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