As an intern architect with ARCOP, Bruce Allan worked on the Man the Producer pavilion at Expo 67. From https://www.youtube.com/watch"v=xuSbfRPbbsw
 
Bruce Allan, former architect and partner at ARCOP, passed away peacefully on October 29, 2022.

Bruce grew up in Beloeil QC and moved to Montreal to attend McGill University where he began his studies in architecture in 1964.

During his second year, at the end of 1965, a professor suggested a visit to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts to see the exhibition of the works of ARCOP (formerly  Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold & Sise).

When Bruce realized that most of the contemporary buildings in Montreal that left him mesmerized during his first year had been designed by this firm, he applied to the company for a summer job the following spring. As an young intern, he worked on projects including the McCord Museum and the final stages of the Man the Producer pavilion at Expo 67.  “Expo gave me fertilizer for my future ideas?it was the starting point for many other things,” recalls Allan in a recording for the Centre des mémoires montréalaises. “There were so many kinds of architecture there, generously coloured pavilions, unusual geometries, material exploration […] all presented in an intensively concentrated place. It was like a catalog of ideas.”

With the evolution of the ARCOP partnership over the decades that followed, Bruce?s design sensitivities and talent...