Anne Cormier

Anne Cormier is an architect and full professor at the School of Architecture of the Université de Montréal.

She directed the School of Architecture of the Université de Montréal from 2007 to 2015.  She is also a founding member of Atelier Big City. Since its inception, this workshop has worked to develop innovative intervention strategies and to speculate on the potential of the public domain. Atelier Big City’s work on architecture and the city has been carried out through competitions, calls for ideas, exploratory studies and direct commissions. With Atelier Big City, Anne Cormier has won several distinctions, including the Prix de Rome from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Grand Prix d’excellence from the Ordre des Architectes du Québec. She has presented and exhibited her work in Quebec and abroad. Anne Cormier is an architect and graduate of McGill University. She also studied urban architecture under the direction of Jean-Louis Cohen at the Unité Pédagogique d’Architecture Paris-Villemin (France). With Atelier Big City, she has been invited to teach architecture at various institutions including Cornell University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University of Toronto and University of Calgary. She was a member of the Bureau of the Ordre des Architectes du Quebec (1993-1995), the editorial committee of the magazine “ARQ” (1993-…) and the editorial committee of the magazine “Trames” (1990-95). She is currently a member of the OAQ Competitions Committee (since 2009) and a member of the Advisory Committee on Planning, Design and Realty of the National Capital Commission (Ottawa) (since 2008).