Louise Pelletier

Louise Pelletier is an architect by training. A full professor at the UQAM School of Design, since 2006 she has been director of the undergraduate programme in environmental design (2008-2012), director of the School of Design (2014-2017) and director of the Design Centre (2018-2024). A graduate of the School of Architecture at Laval University, she also holds a

master’s degree and a doctorate in architecture from McGill University.

Before joining UQAM, she worked in private practice for about ten years, including as an associate designer for the firm Pelletier + Franco, Atelier d’architecture, and then as an architectural consultant for various Montreal firms. She has participated as a curator and guest designer in several exhibitions in Montreal, Japan, Brazil and Norway. She taught at

McGill University’s School of Architecture from 1997 to 2006 and was a visiting professor at the University of Montreal’s School of Architecture and the University of Oslo’s School of Architecture.

She is the author of several books on the history and theory of architecture, including Architecture In Words; Theatre, Language and the Sensuous Space of Architecture (Routledge, 2006), Architectural Representation and the Perspective Hinge (MIT Press, 1997) and Theatrical Space as a Model for Architecture (McGill Libraries, 2003). Her articles have been published in architecture and design journals in Canada, the United States and Europe. She is also the author of Downfall: The Architecture of Excess (RightAngle International, 2014), a novel that reflects on the challenges of contemporary architectural practice. Her most recent book, Women Changing Architecture, analyses the work of thirty-two Canadian architects whose practices have shaped the built environment over the past four decades. Her current research focuses on the exhibition of design.