Annmarie Adams
Director of the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at McGill University.
Contributor Biography
Dr. Adams is the Director of the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and William C. Macdonald Professor at the School of Architecture, McGill University, Montreal. Her current work focuses on North American hospital and longterm care 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).
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 PhD in Architecture (1992).







