Anne Cormier

Anne Cormier is an Associate Professor at the School of Architecture at Université de Montréal, where she has served as director from 2007 to 2015.

Anne Cormier is an architect. She has a professional bachelor’s degree in architecture from McGill University (1982) and a Certificat d’études approfondies en architecture urbaine from the Paris-Villemin school of architecture (1987), where she wrote a dissertation on development projects and the transformation of Paris in the early 20th century. She is affiliated with the Laboratoire d’étude de l’architecture potentielle (LEAP), an inter-university group dedicated to research on the design process in architecture. She is a member of the National Capital Commission’s Advisory Committee on Planning, Design and Realty in Ottawa. She regularly sits on other committees dedicated to excellence in architectural and urban projects and on architectural juries. Anne Cormier is co-founder of Atelier Big City (Cormier, Cohen, Davies, architects), a group of Montreal architects recognized for the quality of its architectural and urban projects. Created in 1987, Atelier Big City has received the Prix de Rome in Architecture from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Governor General’s medal and the grand prize in architecture from the Ordre des architectes du Québec. The group has presented and shown its work in Quebec, Canada and abroad and has been invited to teach at Cornell University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University of Toronto and University of Calgary. Atelier Big City’s work has been broadly published. Its Center d’interprétation du Bourg de Pabos was recognized by The Canadian Architects amongst the 20th century most significant Canadian buildings.