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Blanche Lemco van Ginkel
Canadian architect (1923-2022) · Canada · Architects · Died at 98
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Something wrong?Blanche Lemco van Ginkel was a British-born Canadian architect, city planner, and educator who worked mostly in Montreal and Toronto. She is known for her Modernist designs, as well as for planning Expo 67 and spearheading the preservation of Old Montreal.
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In one of her earliest projects, van Ginkel worked on the rooftop of le Corbusier's iconic Unité d'Habitation in Marseille. She would later write, "I designed the children's play area and the high parapet around the running track/edge of the roof. The idea was that the roof was like the square of a small town, with its usual facilities, and that one saw the Alpes Maritimes in the distance as one would over the house roofs. This is why the parapet is relatively high."
Bowring Park, St. John's, Newfoundland
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Blanche Lemco van Ginkel was a British-born Canadian architect, city planner, and educator who worked mostly in Montreal and Toronto. She is known for her Modernist designs, as well as for planning Expo 67 and spearheading the preservation of Old Montreal. Lemco van Ginkel was the first woman to head a faculty of architecture in Canada and be elected a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. She was also the first woman to be awarded a fellowship by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and in 2020, was awarded their highest honour, the RAIC Gold Medal.
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