Annmarie Adams (born 1960) is an architectural historian and university professor. She is the former Chair of the Department of Social Studies of Medicine and is the former Director of the School of Architecture at McGill University. Adams specializes in healthcare architecture and gendered space. At McGill she teaches courses in architectural history and research methods.[1] She is the inaugural holder of the Stevenson Chair in the History and Philosophy of Science, including Medicine. She is a board member of the Society of Architectural Historians and former board member of the Vernacular Architecture Forum.
Annmarie Adams | |
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 Annmarie Adams speaking at an IGSF event in February 2013 | |
| Born | 1960 (age 63–64) |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley, MArch and PhD McGill University, BA |
| Awards | John K. Branner Travelling Fellowship from the University of California at Berkeley, 1985-86 E. McClung Fleming Fellowship in American Cultural, Social, and Intellectual History from the Winterthur Museum in 1991-92 Jason Hannah Medal from the Royal Society of Canada, 1999 William Dawson Scholar McGill University, 2000 Woman of Distinction Award from the YWCA, category Science and Technology, 2002 William C. Macdonald chair McGill University, 2005 Arcus Endowment Scholar-in-Residence Award from the College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley, 2008 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Architectural History History of Medicine Women's Studies |
| Institutions | McGill University |
| Doctoral advisor | Dell Upton |
Career
editAdams focused on domestic architecture in the 1990s and turned to hospital environments about 2000. A paper exploring the intentions and experience of women and children in suburban California established research questions to which Adams would return repeatedly.[2] How do buildings express behavioral expectations and do users of houses simply do what they are told? She followed this up with studies of wartime housing in Canada;[3] privacy and girlhood in 19th-century Quebec;[4] and sick children and maternal care.[5] She and colleagues contributed to an award-winning website, Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History, by showcasing the role of a Montreal house in an unsolved double murder.[6] Her more recent works examine Art Deco architecture and hospitals;[7] and the architecture of the Montreal Neurological Institute and neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield.[8] She is currently writing a biography of museum curator and physician Maude Abbott.
Adams has received numerous awards for her academic work including the President's Medal for Media in Architecture (2017) from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, the Hilda Neatby Prize (1994) from the Canadian Historical Association (CHA), the Jason Hannah Medal (1999) from the Royal Society of Canada (RSA), and a Woman of Distinction award (2002) from the Montreal YWCA.[9][10]
She has served in administrative roles including as Curator of the Osler Library and Director of the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF) at McGill University in 2010-11.[11]
Bibliography
editArchitecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870-1900. 1996. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 9780773513860
- Contrary to the widely held belief that the home symbolized a refuge and safe haven to Victorians, Adams reveals that middle-class houses were actually considered poisonous and dangerous and explores the involvement of physicians in exposing "unhealthy" architecture and designing improved domestic environments.
"Designing Women": Gender and the Architectural Profession. (co-written with Peta Tancred) 2000. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9780802082190
- Adams and Tancred examine the issue of gender and its relation to the larger dynamics of status and power. They argue that many women architects have reacted with ingenuity to the difficulties they have faced, making major innovations in practice and design.
Medicine by Design: The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893-1943. 2008. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816651146
- Medicine by Design examines how hospital design influenced the development of twentieth-century medicine and demonstrates the importance of these specialized buildings in the history of architecture.
References
edit- ^ "Annmarie Adams". Retrieved June 1, 2013.
- ^ Adams, Annmarie. "The Eichler Home: Intention and Experience in Postwar Suburbia" (PDF). Retrieved May 26, 2013.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Adams, Annmarie; Sijpkes, Pieter (1995). "Wartime Housing and Architectural Change, 1942-1992" (PDF). Retrieved May 26, 2013.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Adams, Annmarie; Gossage, Peter (1998). "Chez Fadette: Girlhood, Family, and Private Space in Late-Nineteenth-Century Saint-Hyacinthe" (PDF). Retrieved June 1, 2013.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Adams, Annmarie; Gossage, Peter (2008). "Sick Children and the Thresholds of Domesticity: The Dawson-Harrington Families at Home" (PDF). Retrieved May 24, 2013.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Adams, Annmarie; Theodore, David (2003). "The Redpath Mansion Mystery". Retrieved May 26, 2013.
- ^ Elliott, Bridget; Windover, Michael (2019). The Routledge Companion to Art Deco. Routledge. pp. 160–175. ISBN 9780429627408.
- ^ Adams, Annmarie (2019). "Designing Penfield: Inside the Montreal Neurological Institute". Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 93 (2): 207–240. doi:10.1353/bhm.2019.0027. ISSN 1086-3176. PMID 31303629. S2CID 196612811.
- ^ "Annmarie Adams". 2011. Retrieved May 23, 2013.
- ^ "Women's Y Foundation Montreal". 2002. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
- ^ Adams, Annmarie (2011). "Farewell from Outgoing Director". Archived from the original on June 20, 2013. Retrieved June 2, 2013.
External links
edit- Annmarie Adams, page on McGill University School of Architecture website
- McGill Reporter, Interview by Neale McDevitt with Annmarie Adams