Lise Anne Couture

Lise Anne Couture ( born 1959 in Montreal, Canada ) is a Canadian architect and co-founder of the architectural firm Asymptote Architecture.

She received her Master of Architecture from Yale University in 1986. In 1992, Lise Anne Couture scholarship from the New York Foundation of the Arts. She is a licensed architect in the state of New York and a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA ). Couture is a board member of the Architectural League of New York, on the advisory board of the Builders' Association and the peer review committee for the GSA " Design Excellence Program " of the U.S. government.

Her academic career includes, among other things, the " Bishop Chair" and " Saarinen Chair" at Yale University, " Musch Home Fellowship " at the University of Michigan and a visiting professor at Princeton University, Harvard University, at the Southern California Institute of Architecture ( SCI - Arc ), at the University of Virginia, at the Université de Montréal, at the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam, at the Parsons School of Design and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). For 10 years she has taught at Columbia University 's Graduate School of Architecture, " Planning and Preservation ." Lise Anne Couture in 2008 was Visiting Professor at the " Kenzo Tange Chair of Architecture " at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. In 2009, Lise Anne Couture held the " Davenport Chair" visiting professors office at Yale University and is currently the " Baird " visiting professor at Cornell University College of Architecture, Art & Planning, as well as guest professor at the SCI - Arc.

Since asymptotes founding in 1989, the Office received awards for visionary building designs, master planning, art installations, exhibition and product design as well as for pioneering digital spatial environments.

2004 received Lise Anne Couture and Hani Rashid Austrian Friedrich Kiesler Prize.