The 2018 installation Moving Dunes, occupying a street alongside Montreal?s Museum of Fine Arts, was inspired by the representational technique of anamorphosis. Photo by Raphael Thibodeau
Gil Hardy and Charles Laurence Proulx met when they were architecture students at the University of Montreal. Their love for music brought them to work together outside of school. After completing a multi-disciplinary music-and-architecture installation, the pair continued to enter?and win?installation competitions together, while still working full time for other firms. ?At some point, it was just too much work outside of our official jobs,? Hardy says. ?So we had to make a choice.? They launched NÓS in 2016, when both were in their late 20s.
The 2018 installation Moving Dunes, occupying a street alongside Montreal?s Museum of Fine Arts, was inspired by the representational technique of anamorphosis. Photo by Olivier Bousquet Their multi-sensory approach leads the duo to create innovative spaces with strong experiential qualities. Seeing people use a space and make it their own brings both architects a sense of pride, Hardy says. ?It?s the result of many years of work, and it?s very special.?
Voûte évènementielle is a temporary stage created to envelop and adjoin a retired Montreal subway car. Photo by Raphael Thibodeau
This passion translates into the attention that goes into every detail of their projects?as well as into the makeup of their firm itself. Early on, Hardy and Proulx i...