A chair in architecture is established in the Faculty of Applied Science. In preparation for an anticipated influx of young veterans seeking architectural training after World War II ended, the old curriculum, which reflected the Arts and Crafts Movement's tenets, was replaced by tenets of the Modern Movement. The conviction that the disciplines of engineering and architecture must be brought together to resolve modern building problems led to Bland's insistence that architectural students not only follow some engineering courses, but that the engineering students' qualifying year should also be mandatory for architectural students. A new five year program is adopted. Harold Spence-Sales joins the faculty.
Architectural education is extended by one year, to six years.
1st and 2nd year students follow basically the same courses as Engineering students, the only exception being an additional course, Architectural Drawing and Elements of Design, for architects in second year. An additional graduate program, Housing Design, is introduced by Jonas Lehrman and Norbert Schoenauer. This degree became for McGill students a prerequisite for entry to the 'fourth year', a one-year program leading to the professional degree of B.Arch. The credit system was accompanied by a proliferation of elective courses and service courses. After Spence-Sales retires, the graduate planning program of the School of Architecture is reorganized by David Farley, resulting in the establishment of an independent School of Urban Planning.