Annmarie Adams
Katie Adams-Gossage

Associate Director (Post-professional)

William C. Macdonald Professor
BA (McG.), MArch, PhD (UC Berkeley)

Macdonald-Harrington Building
Room 309
Tel: (514) 398-6706
Email

Major research interests

• the history of hospital architecture
• gender, sexuality and space
• cultural landscape studies
• vernacular architecture

Publications pdf downloads

Courses

• ARCH 533: Sex and the Single Building (Fall 2009)
• ARCH 627: Research Methods for Architects (Fall 2009)
• ARCH 355: Architectural History 4 (Winter 2010)
• ARCH 685: Contemporary Theory 2 (Winter 2010)

Recent Public Lectures

• CWOQ: Classes without Quizzes, What is Postmodern Architecture? 17 October 2009
• Halifax 9 Pre-conference, Designing with Safety in Mind, 22 October 2009
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• Introduction
  

• Annmarie Adams came to McGill University in 1990. An expert on the history of domestic architecture, hospital design, and gendered space, she travels widely to lecture to university audiences and community groups. She currently serves as a Mentor in the CIHR-funded training program, Health Care Technology and Place at the University of Toronto. With colleagues, she is involved in the post-professional option, Cultural Mediations and Technology at McGill University's School of Architecture. In 2008 she was the first Arcus Scholar-in-Residence at the College of Environmental Design, University of California at Berkeley, where she taught a graduate seminar entitled Sex and the Single Building; Adams' latest book Medicine by Design: The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893-1943 was published by the University of Minnesota Press in February 2008. She is the author of Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870-1900 and co-author of Designing Women: Gender and the Architectural Profession with sociologist Peta Tancred. (Sample reviews of books [.pdf])

  Current funded research includes a project on the development of the high-rise medical clinic in the 1920s (with Stacie Burke, University of Manitoba and David Theodore, Harvard University) and a grant from the Australian Research Council, with University of Melbourne professors Julie Willis and Philip Goad, to support a comparative study of American, Canadian, and Australian hospitals. In August she will co-teach at the Summer Institute in the material culture of science hosted by the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa.

  Adams' PhD and post-professional Masters students explore a range of issues in healthcare design and housing research. Current topics include a study of the role of public baths in Montreal; an exploration of the house competitions hosted by CMHC in the postwar period and a study of megastructure hospitals, with a focus on McMaster University Health Sciences Centre; the role of women interior designers in the evolution of the prairie house; gay baths in Montreal; architecture in Second Life; and "Children's World" at Expo 67. At the School of Architecture she serves as Associate Director (Post-professional programs) and Graduate Program Director.

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