NLAA Lecture Series

The Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Architects (NLAA) is hosting a public annual lecture series featuring architects and designers from across Canada and Europe. The Lecture Series was created as a mandate of the Public Awareness Committee with the intention of increasing the awareness of architecture and of our built environment in Newfoundland and Labrador. It sets the stage for a design-based dialogue about the cities, towns and outport communities across the province. Each lecturer is chosen based on the relevance of their work in relation to issues surrounding the built environment in Newfoundland and Labrador. By sharing with us their ideas and designs for similar issues the hope is that this series can engage the public in a discussion about the future of our built environment.
This year’s theme is Engaging Public Space.

LECTURE 2 – Brigitte Shim, Shim Sutcliffe, Toronto, ON
NOVEMBER 5, 7:30 PM LSPU HALL

Brigitte Shim is a principal in the Toronto based design firm Shim-Sutcliffe Architects. Shim, along with
her partner A. Howard Sutcliffe formed their architectural design practice Shim-Sutcliffe Architects in 1994 reflecting their shared interest and passion for the integration and interrelated scales of architecture, landscape and interior and industrial design. To date, Shim Sutcliffe Architects have received thirteen Governor General’s Medals and Awards for Architecture and an American Institute of
Architects National Honor Award along with many other professional accolades for their built work
ranging from projects for non-profit groups to public and private clients.

Since 1988, Brigitte Shim has been a Professor at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto, engaged in core design studios, advanced design studios as well as teaching courses in the History and Theory of Landscape Architecture. She is currently the 2014 Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor at Yale University’s School of Architecture. Shim and Sutcliffe hold the 2014 University of Auckland Distinguished Visitors’ Award, School of Architecture and Planning in the National Institute for Creative Arts and Industries. She has also held the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professorship (2010 and 2005), the William B and Charlotte Sheperd Davenport Visiting Professorship (2008), the Henry Bishop Visiting Chair and the Visiting Bicentennial Professor in Canadian Studies (2001); an invited international visiting professorship at Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne (2002) and Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (1996 and 1993) as well as the Somerville Visiting Lectureship at the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Environmental Design (2013) and the Martell Distinguished Visiting Critic at the University of Buffalo’s School of Architecture and Planning (2006).

Brigitte Shim has lectured on Shim-Sutcliffe’s built work and participated in invited international design
juries and symposia around the world. Shim is a current member of Waterfront Toronto’s Design Review
Committee, the University of Toronto’s Design Review Committee and has served on Canada’s National
Capital Commission Architectural Advisory Board for over a decade. She has served on numerous
international, national and local design juries as an advocate for design excellence including the 2007
Aga Khan Architecture Award Master jury. She was a board member of Build Toronto, the real estate
and development corporation created to generate value from the City’s real estate assets as well as
Mooreland’s Community Services – a local Toronto non-profit charity helping inner city children and youth affected by poverty since 1917. She is a Senior Fellow at Massey College in the University of Toronto and their College Architect. Brigitte Shim is a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (FRAIC), an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (Hon FAIA) and an elected member of the Royal Canadian Academy (RCA). In January 2013, Brigitte Shim and her partner Howard Sutcliffe were both awarded the Order of Canada, “for their contributions as architects designing sophisticated structures that represent the best of Canadian design to the world.” along with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.