Freedlander, Philip | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

FREEDLANDER, Philip (1918-1990), partner in the firm of Greenspoon, Freedlander & Dunne, Montreal, was born there on 30 August 1918 and educated at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Montreal where he graduated in 1939. He trained under J.C. Meadowcroft in 1941-42, then served with the Canadian Army in Europe in 1942-45. After returning to Montreal in 1946 he was junior architect to H.E. Greenspoon 1947-48 and was invited by him to form a partnership in 1949 (see list of works under Greenspoon & Freedlander). The firm was active for the next twenty years; their works include several high rise apartment blocks and collaboration with the leading Italian architect Pier Luigi Nervi for the design of Place Victoria, Montreal (1963-64), and with Mies van der Rohe on the design of Westmount Square in 1964-66. Freedlander was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Inst. of Canada in 1966, and died in Montreal on 19 June 1990 (death notice Gazette [Montreal], 20 June 1990, page E8; biog. and port. in National Reference Book, ix, 1951, 223)