Brigitte Shim | Materializing Architecture | NORR ed 2022

Brigitte Shim is a professor at John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto. Brigitte is also a visiting professor at Yale University School of Architecture, The Cooper Union, Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, and many others.
Brigitte Shim and her husband A. Howard Sutcliff are the founding partners of Shim-Sutcliff Architects. In 2021 they were both awarded the RAIC Gold Medal, the highest distinction the Institute can bestow in recognition of significant and lasting contribution to Canadian Architecture.
Having established their firm in 1994, Shim and Sutcliff have from the start developed an architecture that is based on attention to design of material, craft, from door handles, furniture, fixtures to indoors, exterior and landscape, nature and the community. There is a poetic understanding in the wholistic design in every project.
The work include in part from the start: Craven Road House, Ledbury Park, Lake Muskoka boathouse, Robertson Davies Library, St. Catharines Chaplain Massey Hall, Residence for the Sisters of St. Joseph, and Wong Dai Sin Temple.
It's an honor to have Brigitte Shim as our guest speaker this session.