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Dec 08, 1958 65 years old
Canadian architect
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About Brigitte Shim
- Brigitte Shim, FRAIC, OC, RCA, Hon.
- FAIA, OAA (born December 8, 1958 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Canadian architect and a founding partner of Shim-Sutcliffe Architects, a Toronto-based practice established in 1994.
- Shim and her husband Howard Sutcliffe have been working collaboratively since they met at the University of Waterloo, where they both studied and received degrees in environmental studies and architecture.
- She is an invested officer of The Order of Canada "for her contributions as an architect, designing structures that enrich the public realm".
- Brigitte Shim has won the Governor General's Medal in Architecture thirteen times (four times independently, and nine times as Shim-Sutcliffe Architects).
- Shim was also a jury member for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2007 and is currently serving on the Aga Khan Architecture Award Steering Committee.
- She is a tenured professor at the University of Toronto's John H.
- Daniels Faculty of Architecture, where she has been teaching since 1988.
- Shim also lectures widely, and she was the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor at Yale University.
