Professor Anne Bordeleau has been appointed as the Director of the School of Architecture for a four year term beginning May 1, 2016.
A registered architect in Quebec, Anne Bordeleau was awarded a PhD from the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies (University College London, UK) after receiving her professional degree and Masters in the history and theory of architecture from McGill University (Montreal). She is an architect and historian with publications on the temporal dimensions of casting, drawings, maps, buildings and architecture more generally. She has published articles in numerous international journals (Journal of Architecture, Architectural Theory Review, Architectural History, Architecture_MPS, Footprint), along with chapters in edited books (Materiality and Architecture, Chora 7, Architecture’s Appeal), and a monograph, Charles Robert Cockerell, Architect in Time: Reflections Around Anachronistic Drawings (Ashgate, 2014). She is one of four principals who worked on The Evidence Room, an exhibition in the central pavilion of the 15th Venice Biennale in 2016, and Architecture as Evidence (Canadian Centre of Architecture, 2016).
Dr
Bordeleau’s
research
interests
include
the
epistemology
of
the
architectural
project,
as
well
as
the
historiographical
and
practical
bearing
of
investigating
the
relations
between
architecture
and
time.
Her
teaching,
research
and
practice
have
covered
many
fields,
from
medieval
to
modern
cultural
history,
nineteenth-century
architectural
history
and
theory,
the
question
of
the
preservation
and
communication
of
culture
through
architecture,
concerns
pertaining
to
rural
architecture
in
contemporary
China,
as
well
as
historical
and
theoretical
considerations
of
casting
as
a
practice.
She
is
fundamentally
interested
in
architecture
as
a
cultural
act,
a
commitment
that
informs
her
research
as
much
as
her
approach
to
education.