Architectural Design

NAME: Lise Anne Couture

ABOUT: Born 1959 in Montreal, Canada, she is a principal of Asymptote Architecture, the New York-based practice that she co-founded with Hani Rashid in 1989. She received her Master of Architecture degree in 1986 from Yale University.

CONTACT: nume.prenume@yahoo.com

EXPERIENCE: Lise Anne Couture has been a New York Foundation of the Arts Fellow. She is a New York State Registered Architect and a member of the AIA. She sits on the Board of Directors of the Architectural League of New York, the Advisory Board of the Builder’s Association and serves on the federal government’s GSA Design Excellence Peer Review Board.

EDUCATION: Lise Anne Couture has held numerous academic appointments including the Bishop Chair and Saarinen Chair at Yale University, the Muschenheim Fellowship at the  University of Michigan, the Kenzo Tange Chair for architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and distinguished visiting professorships at Princeton University, the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), the  University of Virginia, l’Université de Montréal, the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam,  Parsons School of Design  and MIT. For over ten years she has been on the faculty of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. In 2009 Lise Anne Couture held the Davenport Chair at Yale University as a Visiting Professor, and is currently the Baird Visiting Professor at  Cornell University ’s College of Architecture, Art & Planning as well as a Visiting Professor at Sci-Arc.