BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

BRIGITTE SHIM is an architect and professor who lives and works in Toronto. She is a partner in the firm  firm Shim-Sutcliffe Architects, a small architectural practice that believes that the full integration of furniture, architecture and landscape is crucial to the creation of a richer and more complete world. They are the recipients of four Governor General Award’s for Architecture for projects in urban and rural sites. 

Professor Brigitte Shim is a faculty member at the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto responsible for coordinating the second year architecture design studio 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. She has lectured on her architectural work throughout the United States, Canada and New Zealand.

She is a member of the National Capital Commission’s Architectural Advisory Committee for the last five years. She is an associate fellow at Massey College in the University of Toronto and has chaired their Architectural Advisory Committee and she is a founding member of the Trent University, Champlain College Architectural Advisory Board. She has served on numerous professional and academic design juries throughout North America. 

HOWARD SUTCLIFFE, born in Yorkshire, England, received a Bachelor of Environmental Studies and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Waterloo. He has worked with significant Canadian architects including Ronald Thom, Barton Myers and most recently, Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects. He has participated on several award winning design competition teams for the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Kitchener City Hall. 

He is a partner in the firm Shim-Sutcliffe involved in all scales of design and their execution. In 1992, he was the first recipient of the first Ronald J. Thom Award given by the Canada Council.