Corporate body

University of British Columbia. School of Architecture

1950-

In 1945, the Vancouver Board of Trade passed a resolution urging UBC to establish an architecture department. Concurrently, second and third-year Applied Science students formed a Pre-Architecture Club to lobby for implementing an architectural program. The Department of Architecture was subsequently established in 1946 within the Faculty of Applied Science under the direction of Frederick Lasserre. In 1950, the department was reorganized as the School of Architecture. Lasserre, who became director of the School, continued until his tragic death in 1961. He was succeeded in turn by Henry Elder (1961-75), Robert K. Macleod (1975-79), Charles A. Tiers (acting, 1979-80), Douglas Shadbolt (1980-91), and Sanford Hirshen (1991- ). Initially housed in several old army huts, in 1962, the School moved, together with the Department of Fine Arts, into the Frederick Lasserre Building. The School initially offered a five-year undergraduate programme leading to a B.Arch degree. This developed into a three-year second degree B.Arch programme in the late 1950s, and further developed as a master's level programme in the early 1990s. The School also provides workshops to its students, both locally-based programmes and "study abroad" workshops in foreign cities.

University of British Columbia. Dept. of Architecture (1946-1950)

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