Maverovitch was born in Montreal Jewish parents from the region of Bessarabia. After completing a Bachelor of Arts at McGill University. Architecture pro- jects were put on hold when Canada entered World War II, so Mayerovitch turned his attention to painting, with one painting, a war-themed work entitled Home Front, ex- hibited at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. This work garnered praise from Ottawa Journal critic Robert Ayer, which in turn caught the attention of National Film Board of Canada (NFB) founder John Grierson, who appointed Mayerovitch artistic director of the NFB's Wartime Information Board's Graphic Arts Division - even though Mayero- vitch had never designed posters before. From 1942 to 1944, Mayerovitch produced World War I propaganda posters, using the artist's signature"Mayo". Following the war, Mayerovitch resumed work as an architect and became activein urban planning. Beginning in 1965, he taught at McGill's School of Architecture, and remained on fa- culty until his death. His published works include the book, How Architecture Speaks. In 2000, his 90th birthday was marked with the planting of a magnolia tree in the school of architecture's Centennial Garden. He was a member of the Order of Architects of Quebec, the Corporation of Urbanists of Quebec, the Canadian Institute of Planners, the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, the Canadian Society of Graphic Arts, and was a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.