Annmarie Adams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3934231 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Annmarie Adams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Annmarie |
| FAMILY NAME | Adams |
| SIGNATURE | ADAMS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Exploring Gender in Vernacular Architecture by Jessica Ellen Sewell, and
Friendship archaeology
This paper is drawn from a chapter of a forthcoming book on Canadian physician Maude Abbott. The excerpt explores how a prominent woman negotiated relationships during the early twentieth century. Abbott spent most of her career at McGill University in Montreal, as curator of its medical museum and as a researcher in congenital heart disease. Nonetheless her network of correspondents was vast. Engaging an approach the author calls ‘friendship arc…
Designing Penfield
Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield (1891-1976) envisioned hospital architecture as a powerful medical tool. Focusing on two key interiors in the 1934 Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI)-the operating room and the foyer-this article engages newly accessible textual and material evidence to show Penfield's intense involvement in the design of the building. A unique, tri-level surgical room, with a sophisticated setup for photography, made the MNI's sur…
Making Himself at Home
Montreal architect Ernest Cormier designed and occupied the art deco house at 1418 Pine Avenue starting in 1930–31 to accommodate his unusual living arrangement with Clorinthe Perron. Pierre Elliott Trudeau, fifteenth prime minister of Canada, purchased the house in 1979 to suit his different and yet equally atypical masculinity as retired head of state and single father. The house’s unique spatial program and its artifacts comprise an architectu…
Kids in the atrium
Tower of Power
This paper focuses on Montreal’s Drummond Medical Building (1929), designed by the well-known architectural firm of Nobbs & Hyde, as a case study of the new typology that emerged in urban Canada in the 1920s: a modern, purpose-built high-rise for healthcare professionals, with elevators, telephones, indoor parking, and retail shops, located in an upscale commercial district. What role did medical high-rises play in the practice of modern medicine…
Architecture, Religion, and Tuberculosis in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec1
This paper explores the architecture of the Mount Sinai Sanatorium in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts (Qc) to disentangle the role of religion in the treatment of tuberculosis. In particular, we analyze the design of Mount Sinai, the jewel in the crown of Jewish philanthropy in Montreal, in relation to that of the nearby Laurentian Sanatorium. While Mount Sinai offered free treatment to the poor in a stunning, Art Deco building of 1930, the Protestant ho…
Collapse and Expand
This paper explores the complex reflexive relationships among technologies associated with tuberculosis care and treatment: the fresh air cure, surgical collapse therapy, architecture, and chemotherapy. We review the architectural histories of the Royal Edward Laurentian Hospital (now the Montreal Chest Institute) to track important transformations of treatment environments. We recount how the rest-cure prevalent at the beginning of the twentieth…
Les représentations des femmes, dans la revue de l’Institut royal d’architecture du Canada, de 1924 à 1973
Cet article examine les représentations des femmes architectes au Canada au 20 e siècle telles qu'elles apparaissent dans les pages d'un périodique national, la revue de l'Institut royal d'architecture du Canada, de 1924 à 1973. L'analyse montre qu'à une époque où les femmes faisaient des progrès significatifs au sein de la profession d'architecte, qui demeure dominée par les hommes, dans les revues professionnelles elles étaient représentées com…
Pneumothorax Then and Now
This article begins with a photograph of the Children’s Memorial Hospital in Montreal depicting the induction of a pneumothorax, a treatment for tuberculosis (TB) used from the 1920s to the 1940s. The authors place the photograph in historical context and review the contents of the room it shows, including a patient’s chest X ray. Building on Martha Langford’s Suspended Conversations, the authors examine the use of such photographic and X ray ima…
Exploring Everyday Landscapes
Journal Article Exploring Everyday Landscapes: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, VII. Ed. by Annmarie Adams and Sally McMurry. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997. xxx, 313 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-87049-983-1.) Get access J. Ritchie Garrison J. Ritchie Garrison University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999,…
Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic
From the Archives
Wartime Housing and Architectural Change, 1942-1992
This paper comprises the intermediate results of a study of architectural changes made to wartime houses over a fifty-year period in Ville St-Laurent, Quebec, Canada. Our study shows several basic patterns in the ways people changed their spaces over time. In-depth interviews with longtime occupants and a comprehensive photographie survey of the area show that it was their wartime work experience which encouraged most householders to undertake re…
Waste Not, Want Not
Kids in the atrium
Collapse and Expand
This paper explores the complex reflexive relationships among technologies associated with tuberculosis care and treatment: the fresh air cure, surgical collapse therapy, architecture, and chemotherapy. We review the architectural histories of the Royal Edward Laurentian Hospital (now the Montreal Chest Institute) to track important transformations of treatment environments. We recount how the rest-cure prevalent at the beginning of the twentieth…
Waste Not, Want Not
Wartime Housing and Architectural Change, 1942-1992
This paper comprises the intermediate results of a study of architectural changes made to wartime houses over a fifty-year period in Ville St-Laurent, Quebec, Canada. Our study shows several basic patterns in the ways people changed their spaces over time. In-depth interviews with longtime occupants and a comprehensive photographie survey of the area show that it was their wartime work experience which encouraged most householders to undertake re…
From the Archives
Exploring Everyday Landscapes
Journal Article Exploring Everyday Landscapes: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, VII. Ed. by Annmarie Adams and Sally McMurry. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997. xxx, 313 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-87049-983-1.) Get access J. Ritchie Garrison J. Ritchie Garrison University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999,…
Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic
Les représentations des femmes, dans la revue de l’Institut royal d’architecture du Canada, de 1924 à 1973
Cet article examine les représentations des femmes architectes au Canada au 20 e siècle telles qu'elles apparaissent dans les pages d'un périodique national, la revue de l'Institut royal d'architecture du Canada, de 1924 à 1973. L'analyse montre qu'à une époque où les femmes faisaient des progrès significatifs au sein de la profession d'architecte, qui demeure dominée par les hommes, dans les revues professionnelles elles étaient représentées com…
Pneumothorax Then and Now
This article begins with a photograph of the Children’s Memorial Hospital in Montreal depicting the induction of a pneumothorax, a treatment for tuberculosis (TB) used from the 1920s to the 1940s. The authors place the photograph in historical context and review the contents of the room it shows, including a patient’s chest X ray. Building on Martha Langford’s Suspended Conversations, the authors examine the use of such photographic and X ray ima…
Collapse and Expand
This paper explores the complex reflexive relationships among technologies associated with tuberculosis care and treatment: the fresh air cure, surgical collapse therapy, architecture, and chemotherapy. We review the architectural histories of the Royal Edward Laurentian Hospital (now the Montreal Chest Institute) to track important transformations of treatment environments. We recount how the rest-cure prevalent at the beginning of the twentieth…
Tower of Power
This paper focuses on Montreal’s Drummond Medical Building (1929), designed by the well-known architectural firm of Nobbs & Hyde, as a case study of the new typology that emerged in urban Canada in the 1920s: a modern, purpose-built high-rise for healthcare professionals, with elevators, telephones, indoor parking, and retail shops, located in an upscale commercial district. What role did medical high-rises play in the practice of modern medicine…
Architecture, Religion, and Tuberculosis in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec1
This paper explores the architecture of the Mount Sinai Sanatorium in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts (Qc) to disentangle the role of religion in the treatment of tuberculosis. In particular, we analyze the design of Mount Sinai, the jewel in the crown of Jewish philanthropy in Montreal, in relation to that of the nearby Laurentian Sanatorium. While Mount Sinai offered free treatment to the poor in a stunning, Art Deco building of 1930, the Protestant ho…
Kids in the atrium
Making Himself at Home
Montreal architect Ernest Cormier designed and occupied the art deco house at 1418 Pine Avenue starting in 1930–31 to accommodate his unusual living arrangement with Clorinthe Perron. Pierre Elliott Trudeau, fifteenth prime minister of Canada, purchased the house in 1979 to suit his different and yet equally atypical masculinity as retired head of state and single father. The house’s unique spatial program and its artifacts comprise an architectu…
Designing Penfield
Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield (1891-1976) envisioned hospital architecture as a powerful medical tool. Focusing on two key interiors in the 1934 Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI)-the operating room and the foyer-this article engages newly accessible textual and material evidence to show Penfield's intense involvement in the design of the building. A unique, tri-level surgical room, with a sophisticated setup for photography, made the MNI's sur…
Friendship archaeology
This paper is drawn from a chapter of a forthcoming book on Canadian physician Maude Abbott. The excerpt explores how a prominent woman negotiated relationships during the early twentieth century. Abbott spent most of her career at McGill University in Montreal, as curator of its medical museum and as a researcher in congenital heart disease. Nonetheless her network of correspondents was vast. Engaging an approach the author calls ‘friendship arc…
Exploring Gender in Vernacular Architecture by Jessica Ellen Sewell, and
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