Brigitte Shim is an award-winning architect who practices with her husband Howard Sutcliffe in the Toronto firm Shim-Sutcliffe. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, she has lived most of her life in Toronto and was trained at the University of Waterloo with degrees in Environmental Studies and Architecture. She has taught a broad range of graduate and undergraduate studios. Brigitte is a member of the 2007 Aga Khan Architecture Awards jury. In 2006, she was an invited speaker at the 10th Annual International Aalto Symposium in Jyvaskyla, Finland and was the 2005 Eero Saarinen Visiting chair at YaleUniversity. She was the 2002 Visiting Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, 2001 Henry Bishop Visiting Chair in Architecture and Visiting Bicentennial Professor in Canadian Studies at Yale University and an invited visiting professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design in 1996 and 1993. She has lectured throughout the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Europe.
Edmonton was a leader in modern building during the period from post-World War II to the 1970s due to the oil boom that spurred development and created a desire to be progressive. The exhibition highlights modern design from the small scale of furniture, art, single family home3 to the urban planning scale. A series of archival photographs, drawings and models, as well as new photography by James Dow will show how Edmonton led the nation at the time.
The Exhibition and Symposium is being organized by the AGA.
I am an architect trying to construct a house for my family that will produce as much energy as it will consume in one year. Perhaps we'll do even better.
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