Brigitte Shim was born in Kingston, Jamaica before immigrating to Toronto, Canada – where she now calls home. Brigitte studied architecture and environmental studies at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
She is a founding principal of Shim-Sutcliffe Architects and has been a faculty member at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto since 1988.
Brigitte Shim is the 2022 Louis I. Kahn professor of architectural design at Yale University’s School of Architecture and has been a visiting chair and lecturer at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), The Cooper Union’s Chanin School of Architecture, The University of Auckland, and others. She has served on numerous international, national and local design juries as an unwavering advocate for design excellence.
