BRIEF BIOGRAPHY / BRIGITTE SHIM

Brigitte Shim is a principal of Shim-Sutcliffe Architects in Toronto, an architecture and design firm interested in the integration of furniture, architecture and landscape. Their built architectural work has been  honoured with five Governor General’s Medal’s and Awards for Architecture along with AIA, American Wood Council, Canadian Wood Council, Architectural Record Interiors, I.D. Magazine Design Review award, and their un-built projects have received a P/A Award Citation and a Canadian Architect Award of Excellence. Furniture designed by the firm has won awards and represented Canadian design in international exhibitions and their architectural designs has been published widely in the U.S., Europe and Japan. 

As a faculty member at the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto since 1988, she has taught a broad range of studios and a lecture course in the history and theory of landscape architecture. Brigitte Shim has been an invited visiting professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 1993 and 1996 and she has lectured throughout the United States, Canada and New Zealand. Her work in the second year architecture design studio at the University of Toronto was acknowledged by the American Institute of Architects Education Honors Program in 1997.

She has served as a member of the National Capital Commission’s Architectural Advisory Board for the last seven years. She is an associate fellow at Massey College in the University of Toronto and a senior fellow at Trent University’s Champlain College and has served on architectural advisory committees at both universities as well as a member of numerous professional and academic design juries throughout North America.