About Maurice Desnoyers
Lived 1927 – 2022 (aged 94–95). Maurice Desnoyers was an architect.
Maurice Desnoyers (1927 – 12 December 2022) was a French-Canadian architect and winner of the OAQ Medal of Merit and the Massey Medal. His projects include the Autostade, Musée de la civilization de Québec, and portions of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, among many others.
Early life Desnoyers was born in 1927 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, sixth in a family of 11 children. A single building ("Le Mur" or "The Wall") holds a majority of the town's life and serves as a massive windbreak for the rest of the town, which is battered by winter winds during the long Canadian season.
Desnoyers frequently worked with Moshe Safdie, another noted Canadian architect.
Later life and death Desnoyers retired in 2010.
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French-Canadian architect (1927–2022)
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Maurice Desnoyers was an architect.
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