Annmarie Adams
Associate Director, School of Architecture, McGill University.
Contributor Biography
Dr. Adams is the William C. Macdonald Professor and Associate Director of the School of Architecture at McGill University. Her current work focuses on North American hospital architecture, complementing a more generalized expertise on gender and space. Her most recent book is Medicine by Design: The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893-1943 (2008). While Medicine by Design was in the works, she was the inaugural Arcus Scholar-in-Residence at the University of California at Berkeley.
Adams is a mentor at University of Toronto’s Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) training program, Heath Care Technology and Place (HCTP), and holds research funds from the CIHR, the Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine, Heritage Canada, and the Australian Research Council. She is also a member of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.
A native of London, Ontario, she graduated with Honours from McGill University (1981). After a short stint reconstructing the Alaska Highway, she attended the University of California at Berkeley, where she received her professional Masters of Architecture (1986) and a Ph.D. in Architecture (1992).
