As 1700 La Poste enters its second year, it showcases the work of Luc Laporte with an itinerary tracing the evolution of the projects and proposals designed by this discreet, independent, creative, and visionary architect.

Exclusively for this occasion, Montréal’s UBU theatre company presents L’homme qui marche (The Man Who Walks), a small urban phantasmagoria with excerpts from texts and poems drawn from Laporte’s personal library. The puppet theatre is a playful nod to the architect’s fascination with performance spaces of all kinds.

In addition to inviting visitors to discover or rediscover Laporte’s works, 1700 La Poste—the architect’s last project—also presents a number of his design proposals. Cité pour 33 296 habitants (City for 33,296 Inhabitants), commissioned by the Musée regional de Rimouski, imagines a car-free utopian city with no parking facilities, conceived on a human scale. Small public squares and other gathering places are scattered throughout. The plan saw the population of Rimouski moving onto Île Saint-Barnabé, with the island’s waterfront reserved for agriculture and parkland.

The event is also an opportunity for Laporte’s friends and colleagues, among them artists and writers, to pay homage to the architect.