Ernest Cormier Research Paper

He was known by the name of Ernest Cormier. Cormier was born in Montreal, Quebec on December 5, 1885 and decreased on January 1, 1980, only less than a month after he turned 94 year old. He is of a French-Canadian descendant. Cormier was one of the most notable and known engineer and architect in the city of Montreal. In fact, he “was the first Canadian modern architect” (Lanken,1980). In 1906, he graduated from École Polytechnique de Montréal with a degree in Civil Engineering. Just right after his graduation, he started working for the research department of the Dominion Bridge Company in Montreal for two years. However, with Cormier’s dissatisfaction of studies, he decided to study at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris …show more content…
Shortly, he obtained his diploma with a degree of an Architect from the French government. After his time away from home, he returned in Montreal in 1919, and became an Instructor in Architecture in Mcgill University for a year. After gaining more knowledge and skills in his field, he finally decided to practise and commit his talent in Architecture. So, from 1919 to 1921, Cormier was associated with Jean Omer Marchand, a Quebecer architect, but their partnership did not last long. Although, they collided their skills together, and built the high-rise Dubrule office building and the “École des beaux-arts”, currently the Pavillon des Arts de l’UQAM, in Montreal in during 1922 to 1923. From 1920 to 1926, Cormier along with Louis Auguste Amos and Charles Jewett Saxe, great architects and engineers, altogether built the second courthouse to convey the name “Palais de Justice de Montréal Édifice Ernest-Cormier” located at the Old Port. The courthouse was Cormier’s first most important contract after he arrived back to Montreal from Paris after his …show more content…
Projects after projects, Cormier became the architect to design the “Université de Montréal” in 1925, currently this university owns two departments: École Polytechnique and HEC Montréal, and has ranked 113th place globally on the top universities in the world in 2014-2015. To credit his accomplishments, in 1929, Cormier was announced as a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and RAIC, an organization for all architects, in 1930. Furthermore, “he received medals from the RAIC, the PQAA the American Newspaper Guild, L’Association Canadienne – Française pour l’Avancement de Sciences, Mcgill University and la Société des Architectes diplomés par le Gouvernement Français” (Lanken,1980). With all his achievements in his lifetime, his accomplishments do not stop striving to attain further goals. In 1947, Cormier was invited to be apart of the architects and engineers to represent the Canadian International Board of Design for the United Nations Headquarters in New York, for which he planned the design for the exterior doors. In 1950 to 1958, he was also part and the main architect to design the Imprimerie nationale du