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Claude Provencher
Claude Provencher graduated from the Université de Montréal in 1974 and met Michel Roy while working at Papineau, Gérin-Lajoie, Leblanc Architectes.
Background & practice
Claude Provencher graduated from the Université de Montréal in 1974 and met Michel Roy while working at Papineau, Gérin-Lajoie, Leblanc Architectes. They co-founded Provencher_Roy in 1983. His 2023 RAIC Gold Medal profile describes a career shaped by Montréal and its changing urban fabric. It records how he initiated ideas for overlooked sites and then brought funders and clients into proposals, including the eventual development of World Trade Centre Montréal.
How to read the work
Find architectural opportunities within existing urban fabric, developing proposals before a conventional commission exists and using them to bring clients and resources together around the reuse of overlooked places.
Co-founder; the official profile explicitly describes the late architect and a retrospective award.
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