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    The document discusses an article by Yves Deschamps about the architecture and urban identity of Montreal. It provides reading questions about key aspects of Montreal's modern architecture from the 1950s-1960s, including distinguishing characteristics of the International Style, notable modernist buildings from this era and their architects, common features of tall buildings, why reinforced concrete was preferred, the originality of Place Bonaventure, and how Expo '67 marked the beginning of a new era.

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    The document discusses an article by Yves Deschamps about the architecture and urban identity of Montreal. It provides reading questions about key aspects of Montreal's modern architecture from the 1950s-1960s, including distinguishing characteristics of the International Style, notable modernist buildings from this era and their architects, common features of tall buildings, why reinforced concrete was preferred, the originality of Place Bonaventure, and how Expo '67 marked the beginning of a new era.

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    345-101-MQ Making Montreal:

    Architecture and Urban Identity

    READING QUESTIONS

    Deschamps, Yves. “Megacity Montreal.”

    1. What are the three distinguishing characteristics of the International Style, according
    to Hitchcock and Johnson?

    2. What buildings (with dates and architect’s names) does Deschamps claim “mark
    Montreal’s entry into its modern decade in spectacular fashion”?

    3. What feature do these buildings all have in common, one that Mies, Gropius and Le
    Corbusier all saw as an essential complement to a tall building?

    4. Why was reinforced concrete (béton armé) preferred in Montreal’s second


    generation of modern buildings in the 1960s?

    5. Why is Place Bonaventure considered one of Montreal’s most original contributions


    to world architecture?

    6. What was it about Expo ’67 that marked what people thought at the time was the
    beginning of a new era?

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