The Berlage

Annmarie Adams holds joint appointments at McGill University’s Peter Gou-hug Fu School of Architecture, where she is the former director; and the Department of Social Studies of Medicine, where she holds the Stevenson Chair in the History and Philosophy of Science, including Medicine. Her research focuses on how medicine, gender, and architecture intersect, mostly in  hospitals and houses. She is currently writing a spatial biography of cardiologist and museum curator Maude Abbott. Her books include Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870–1900, Medicine by Design: The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893–1943,  and the coauthored Designing Women: Gender and the Architectural Profession. She is a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, and the Society of Architectural Historians. Until 2023, she was one of four members on the comité d’experts at the Société québécoise des infrastructures (SQI), overseeing the future reuse of the former Royal Victoria Hospital, a historic complex located on the southern slope of Mount Royal in Montreal.