Jean-Louis Lalonde

Career

There, he worked and collaborated alongside the likes of Marcel Breuer, Pier Luigi Nervi, Le Corbusier, Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder and Joan Miró to name a few. After seven years working in Paris and London, they returned to Montréal, where he worked at the Montréal firm of Bland, Rother and Trudeau. During the 70"s, Mr. Lalonde developed a unique expertise in designing and building more modern, humane and ergonomic social housing.

He also designed the Montréal Métro station Place Sain-Henri, and was part of the consortium which designed and built the original Palais des Congrès de Montréal.

He worked on a variety of projects over his career, from private residences to the Lachute Water Treatment plant in Québec, to hospitals, public housing, et cetera Jean-Louis Lalonde was also very involved in the promotion of architecture through his life as president of the Ordre des architects du Québec (OAQ), the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) in 1971-1972 and vice-president of the International Union of Architects (UIA).

He died on May 30, 2007 from cancer.

Achievements

• He had many successful collaborations with different artists and sculptors over the years, namely lifetime time friend Charles Daudelin, and won prestigious competitions with him, such as the Maison de Trois-Rivières, Maison de demain, Demeure de l’Avenir ou Maison de béton, École Saint-Damase, et cetera Many of which won the firm international praise.

Membership

He was one of the original members of the Commission Jacques-Viger, whose mandate was the study —and ensuing recommendations— of Old Montréal’s patrimonial assets.