Women Changing Architecture highlights the pivotal role women have played in transforming contemporary architecture in Canada. Through the works and careers of thirty-two architects from Quebec and Ontario, this publication showcases engaged practices that, for over four decades, have helped redefine the discipline, its values, and its modes of action.
This publication stems from an exhibition originally presented at TMU (Toronto Metropolitan University) in the fall of 2024, and UQAM Design Centre in the spring of 2025. Titled Women Changing Architecture, it brings together the work of sixteen women from Ontario and sixteen from Quebec.
Far from being a mere generational overview, this publication reflects the diversity of approaches, scales, and issues addressed by these architects. Whether institutional, cultural, residential, or urban projects, their work explores the relationships between architecture, society, and the built environment, and responds with rigor and inventiveness to contemporary environmental, social, and cultural challenges. By highlighting these individual and collective trajectories, Women Changing Architecture invites us to recognize the fundamental contribution of women to the recent history of architecture and to reflect on the future of a discipline in constant transformation, shaped by practices that are attentive, critical, and deeply rooted in their environment.
FOLLOW-UP TO THE EXHIBITION
After being shown at the Paul H. Cocker Gallery at Toronto Metropolitan University and the UQAM Design Centre, the exhibition was on view at the Jean-Marie-Roy Gallery at the Laval University School of Architecture in the spring 2026. It is expected to travel to Vancouver and Victoria in the fall of 2026.
LIST OF ARCHITECTS AND THEIR FIRMS
FEATURED IN THE EXHIBITION AND PUBLICATION
Farida Abu-Bakare, Global Practice, WXY
Manon Asselin, Atelier TAG
Shirley Blumberg, KPMB Architects
Tania Bortolotto, BORTOLOTTO
Sydney Browne, Diamond Schmitt Architects
Anne Carrier, Anne Carrier architecture
Anne Cormier, Atelier Big City
Anne Côté, Lafond Côté Architectes
Marie-Chantal Croft, Écobâtiment
Renée Daoust, Daoust Lestage Lizotte Stecker Benech
Ana-Francisca De La Mora, Arcadis
Heather Dubbeldam, Dubbeldam Architecture + Design
Sonia Gagné, Provencher_Roy
Sylvie Girard, Archi-
Valerie Gow, Gow Hastings
Meg Graham, Superkül
Pat Hanson, gh3
Lilia Koleva, NEUF architect(e)s
Annie Lebel, in situ atelier d’architecture
Janna Levitt, LGA
Anne-Marie Matteau, Lupien Matteau
Marianne Mckenna, KPMB Architects
Catherine Milanese, Maîtrise d’œuvre Architecture
Lucie Paquet, Atelier Lucie Paquet Architecte
Kim Pariseau, APPAREIL Architecture
Pina Petricone, Giannone Petricone Associates
Carol Phillips, Moriyama Teshima Architects
Brigitte Shim, Shim-Sutcliffe Architects
Anik Shooner, Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux Architectes
Eladia Smoke, Smoke Architecture
Megan Torza, DTAH
Betsy Williamson, Williamson Williamson
