Louise Pelletier

Louise Pelletier was trained as an architect. She has been Professor at the School of Design of the Université du Québec à Montréal since 2006 where she was Director of the Undergraduate Program in Environmental Design from 2008 to 2012 and Director of the School of Design from 2014 to 2017. She is currently Director of the Design Centre at UQAM.

She graduated from the School of Architecture at Laval University. She also holds a postprofessional master’s degree and a Ph.D. in architecture from McGill University. Before being. employed by UQAM, she worked in private practice for about ten years. She has been a curator and has designed several exhibitions in Montreal, Japan, Brazil and Norway. She taught at the School of Architecture at McGill University from 1997 to 2006 and was a Visiting Professor at the School of Architecture at the Université de Montréal and the School of Architecture at the
University of Oslo.

Louise Pelletier 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), and co-author of Architectural Representation and the Hinge Perspective (MIT Press, 1997) and Theatrical Space as a Model for Architecture (McGill Libraries, 2003). Her articles have appeared in architecture and design journals in Canada, the United States and Europe.

Her most recent book, Downfall: The Architecture of Excess (RightAngle International, 2014), is a novel that reflects on issues of contemporary architectural practice. Her current research focuses on exhibition design.