Annmarie Adams, Associate Member
Dr. Annmarie Adams is William C. Macdonald Professor at the School of Architecture, McGill University, Montreal. She is the author of Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870-1900 (McGill-Queens University Press, 1996), Medicine by Design: The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893-1943 (University of Minnesota Press, 2008) and co-author of Designing Women: Gender and the Architectural Profession (University of Toronto Press, 2000). Focusing on the cultural landscapes of houses and hospitals, she is particularly interested in the intersections of architecture and medicine. She is currently working on a spatial biography of physician Maude Abbott, a study of interwar operating rooms, and depictions of longterm care in film. She is co-authoring a paper on Pierre Trudeau’s domestic environment in retirement. This semester, Adams will give lectures/presentations at the Association of Architecture School Librarians (AASL) conference in Toronto, Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the British Association for Canadian Studies (BACS) conference in London. Her research has garnered numerous awards, including the Jason Hannah Medal from the Royal Society of Canada, a CIHR Health Career Award, and a YWCA Woman of Distinction prize. She is a Mentor in the University of Toronto’s CIHR-training program, Heath Care Technology and Place (HCTP) and has held research funds from CIHR, the Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine, SSHRC, Heritage Canada, and the Australian Research Council. She is a board member of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, Winterthur Portfolio, and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. At McGill University she is involved in a project to revive the university’s medical museum, another to host a conference on the McGill superhospital, and is a devotee of the Osler Library. Adams’ current post-professional Masters and PhD students are working on a range of topics regarding the social and cultural power of architecture: Forillon National Park, the legacy of Olmsted’s plan for Montreal’s evolution, modernist dollhouses, women in German bunkers, Montreal’s bridges, the domestic spaces of women artists, demolition in Montreal, housing in Nunavut, and women’s occupation of public space in Mexico City/New York/Montreal. Professional Masters advisees are designing a new circus school for Montreal, bringing new life to the Shriners’ hospital, and testing the limits of functional zoning in Manhattan.
