Biography:
Anne Bordeleau is Associate Professor and O’Donovan Director of the School of Architecture of the University of Waterloo. She is currently Chair of the Canadian Council of University Schools of Architecture (CCUSA), Director on the Canadian Architectural Certification Board (CACB) and Canadian director on the board of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). Bordeleau received her professional degree in architecture and post-professional Masters in the history and theory of architecture at McGill University, she was awarded a PhD in Architecture from the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies (University College London, UK) and was the recipient of a postdoctoral fellowship from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. A registered architect with the Ordre des architects du Québec (OAQ), Dr. Bordeleau is also an historian with publications on the temporal dimensions of 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, Les Cahiers de Droit), along with chapters in edited books (
Materiality and Architecture, Chora 7, Architecture’s Appeal), a co-authored book,
The Evidence Room (New Jewish Press, 2016), and a monograph,
Charles Robert Cockerell, Architect in Time:
Reflections around Anachronistic Drawings (Ashgate, 2014.) She oversaw the creation of the plaster casts as co-principal of The Evidence Room, an exhibition prepared for the 15
th Venice Biennale in 2016, also shown as
Architecture as Evidence at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, at the Royal Ontario Museum in 2017-2018, and operating at the Hirshhorn Museum in 2019. Her research interests include the epistemology of the architectural project, the shifting conceptions of the relationship between architecture and time, and historical and theoretical considerations of casting as a practice. She is interested in architecture as a cultural act, a commitment that informs her research as much as her approach to education.
