Highlights of the School's history
1896:聽A chair in architecture is established in the Faculty of Applied Science.
1896:听Professor Stewart Henbest Capper becomes Director.
1899:聽First graduating class, three students.
1903:聽Scottish-born architect Professor Percy Nobbs accepts the William C. Macdonald Chair in Architecture.
1903:听Professor Percy Nobbs becomes Director.
1913:聽Professor Ramsay Traquair becomes Director.
1921:聽Sketching School goes to Quebec City.
1939:聽Professor Philip J. Turner becomes Acting Director.
1941:听Professor John Bland becomes Director.
1941:听A new curriculum is adopted by Professor John Bland after his appointment to the directorship of the School. In preparation for an anticipated influx of young veterans seeking architectural training after World War II, the old curriculum, based on the tenets of the Arts and Crafts movement, was replaced by a Modernism curriculum.
1943:聽Catherine Chard Wisnicki graduates as the program鈥檚 first woman.
1945:聽A new five year program is adopted.
1946:聽Professor Harold Spence-Sales joins the faculty. In anticipation of the important role for architects during postwar reconstruction, the scope of architectural training is broadened to include town planning; Bland and Spence-Sales establish the first Canadian graduate program in planning.
1947: Professor Ramsay Traquair publishes聽The Old Architecture of Quebec.
1949:聽Architectural education is extended by one year, to six years.
1950:听Arthur Erickson graduates.
1961:聽The M.Arch program is expanded to include Architectural Design (John Bland) in addition to Planning (Harold Spence-Sales).
1961:聽Moshe Safdie鈥檚 thesis proposing Habitat 鈥�67.
1962:听To give equal importance to design and building construction in the upper years, studio courses include the teaching of both disciplines and are named Design and Construction (D&C).
1962:聽An additional graduate program, Housing Design, is introduced by Professors Jonas Lehrman and Norbert Schoenauer.
1965:聽Professor Peter Collins publishes聽Changing Ideals in Modern Architecture 1750-1950.
1967:聽Faculty members Professors Pieter Sijpkes and Radoslav Zuk participate in the design of Expo 67.
1970:听After Spence-Sales retires, the graduate planning program of the School of Architecture is reorganised by Professor David Farley, resulting in the establishment of an independent School of Urban Planning.
1971:聽The Minimum Cost Housing Program is introduced by Professor Alvaro Ortega to study and research housing conditions in developing countries.
1972:聽Professor Norbert Schoenauer becomes Director.
1975:聽Professor Derek Drummond becomes Director.
1981:聽Death of Professor Peter Collins.
1985:聽Professor Bruce Anderson becomes Director.
1986:聽 Professor Witold Rybczynski publishes聽Home: A Short History of an Idea.
1987:聽A new graduate program, History and Theory of Architecture, is established by Professor Alberto P茅rez-G贸mez when he joins the faculty.
1987:听The School of Architecture moves into its new home, the Macdonald-Harrington Building.
1989:听The Housing Design graduate program is reorganised by Professors Witold Rybczynski and Avi Friedman, and renamed The Affordable Homes Program.
1989:听The Ph.D. in Architecture is introduced as an ad hoc program.
1990:聽Professor Derek Drummond again becomes Director.
1990:聽An innovative model house, The Grow Home, is constructed on campus.
1993:聽A graduate program in housing, Domestic Environments, is established by Professor Annmarie Adams, who joined the faculty in 1990.
1996:聽Professor David Covo becomes Director.
1996:聽 The School celebrates its Centennial with the planting of a special garden designed by Professor John Schreiber.
1997:聽The Ph.D. in Architecture Program is approved by the Minister of Education.
1997:聽Lily Chi is the first Ph.D. graduate.
1999:聽In May, the University Senate approves the proposal for the replacement of the B.Arch. with the M.Arch. as the first professional degree in Architecture. The new program retains the B.Sc.(Arch.) degree, but replaces the two-semester 34-credit B.Arch. with a three-semester 45-credit professional Master of Architecture (M.Arch.I) that incorporates new courses in Design Research and Methodology, Architectural Criticism, Professional Practice, and Building Science, and increases the credit weight of the design thesis from six to eight.
2000:聽In December, the first class to graduate with the new professional M.Arch I degree completes all course requirements.
2001:聽First class to graduate with the M.Arch. I (Professional) degree.
2003:聽Philanthropist David J. Azrieli endows an annual lecture at the School.
2007:聽Professor Michael Jemtrud becomes Director.
2007:聽Associate Directors are first appointed: Professors Ricardo Castro (Professional) and Annmarie Adams (Post-professional).
2008:聽FARMM opens.
2008:聽60-credit professional Masters option is approved.
2011:聽Professor Annmarie Adams becomes Director.
2015:聽Professor Martin Bressani becomes Director.
2016:听Professor Howard Davies becomes the Clifford C.F. Wong Professor of Practice.
2016/17:聽The School is awarded two Canada Research Chairs for Professors David Theodore (2017) and Ipek Tureli (2016).
2017:听Through a generous gift, the School of Architecture is renamed the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture.
