Hazen Sise: b. Montréal, Québec, 1906; d. Montréal, Québec, 1974. Hazen Sise studied architecture at both McGill University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the 1930s, Sise went to London, England, and Paris, France, where he was involved with the Modern Architectural Research (MARS) Group (a group of British architects active between 1933 and 1957) and took part in many international conferences on Modern architecture. At the end of the 1930s, he moved to Spain where he volunteered as an ambulance driver during the civil war (1936-1939). Upon his return to Canada before the end of the Second World War, Sise was employed with the National Film Board of Canada serving as the Canadian representative in Washington, D.C. At the end of the 1940s, he worked for the firm McDougall Smith and Fleming. Around 1953-1955, he co-founded the firm Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold, Michaud and Sise (later ARCOP), dissociating from the firm in 1968. During this period, Sise worked on the Beaver Lake Pavilion (1955-1958) with Guy Desbarats (1925-2003). This project was one of the first Modernist buildings constructed in Montréal and was followed shortly thereafter by other structures that changed the face of the downtown core of the city in the 1960s. These include Place Ville-Marie (1957-1961), Place des Arts (1960-1963), and Place Bonaventure (1964-1967).
From the description of Fonds Hazen Sise, 1933-1959 (Centre canadien d'architecture). WorldCat record id: 431354079
