This was most evident at the University of British Columbia, founded by Swiss Modernist Fred Lasserre, and the University of Manitoba, which, under director John Alonzo RUSSELL, became an important Canadian outpost of Miesian Modernism.
Ainsi les bâtiments éponymes Lasserre à l'U. de la Colombie-Britannique (1955) et Russell à l'U. du Manitoba (1959) incarnent les bases théoriques de ces deux directeurs influents.