ABSTRACT
Place Bonaventure: Process, Form, and
Interpretation
James Viloria
1994
Place Bonaventure, a multi-use complex situated in
downtown Montreal at 900 de la Gauchetière Street West, is a seminal work in the career
of architect, Raymond T. Affleck (1922-1989). The building was designed in 1964-67 by the
architectural firm Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold & Sise, informally
known as Architects in Cooperative Partnership (ARCOP). As partner in charge of the
project, Affleck was given an unprecedented opportunity to apply theoretical ideas to a
method of architectural production. This thesis relates Affleck's formal education and
chosen readings to the collaborative procedure by which Place Bonaventure was conceived,
designed, and constructed; analyzes the methods by which professionals both from within
and outside of the field of architecture chose to discuss Place Bonaventure in selected
publications; and aims to provide an understanding of the manner in which the written
works may have conditioned perceptions of the structure. This study combines an interest
in the interaction of individual, ideological, and institutional factors during the
production of Place Bonaventure with the recognition that the final built form elicits
diverse interpretations.
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