Aristide Beaugrand-Champagne is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Aristide Beaugrand-Champagne as Canadian architect (1876-1950).
Aristide Beaugrand-Champagne was born at Saint-Anicet in 1876. His recorded nationality is Canada. He trained at Polytechnic School of Montreal and Collège Sainte-Marie de Montréal.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
He is recorded as architect.
His best-known building is Mount Royal Chalet. Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
That the work was built in Canada shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Aristide Beaugrand-Champagne died in 1950, aged 74. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Mount Royal Chalet
- Trained at Polytechnic School of Montreal and Collège Sainte-Marie de Montréal
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