Lise Anne Couture (born 1959 in Montreal, Canada) is an architect and educator. She is the co-founder of
Asymptote Architecture
Asymptote Architecture is an American architecture practice, based in Long Island City, New York. Asymptote Architecture is known for multidisciplinary architectural designs that often incorporate digital technologies.
History
Husband and wife ...
, in partnership with
Hani Rashid
Hani Rashid (born 1958 in Cairo) is an architect and educator. He co-founded the New York-based architecture firm, Asymptote Architecture with Lise Anne Couture.
Early life and education
Hani Rashid was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1958, his famil ...
. She is based in
Brooklyn
Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...
,
New York
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Early life and education
Lise Anne Couture was born in 1959 in Montreal, Canada. Couture attended
Carleton University
Carleton University is an English-language public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1942 as Carleton College, the institution originally operated as a private, non-denominational evening college to serve returning World ...
and received a bachelor's degree in architecture in 1983.
It was at Carleton University she met her future husband and business partner,
Hani Rashid
Hani Rashid (born 1958 in Cairo) is an architect and educator. He co-founded the New York-based architecture firm, Asymptote Architecture with Lise Anne Couture.
Early life and education
Hani Rashid was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1958, his famil ...
.
She received a Master's of Architecture degree in 1986 from
Yale University
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...
.
Architectural work
She is co-founder of the New York-based architecture firm Asymptote Architecture, in partnership with Hani Rashid. The architecture firm was founded in 1989.
Couture's work as a principal of Asymptote includes:
* 2009 – 166 Perry Street a luxury residential building in Manhattan's West Village
* 2009 –
Yas Hotel Abu Dhabi
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in
Abu Dhabi
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,
United Arab Emirates
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* 2002 – HydraPier Pavilion in
Haarlemmermeer,
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* 1996 – Universe Theater in Aarhus, Denmark
* 1997 – Aarhus Museum of Modern Art in Aarhus, Denmark
Teaching
She has held numerous academic appointments including the Bishop Chair and Saarinen Chair at Yale University, the Muschenheim Fellowship at the
University of Michigan
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, the Kenzō Tange Chair for architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, and distinguished visiting professorships at Princeton University, the
Southern California Institute of Architecture
Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) is a private architecture school in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1972, SCI-Arc was initially regarded as both institutionally and artistically avant-garde and more adventurous than t ...
(SCI-Arc), the
University of Virginia
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, l’Université de Montréal, the Barrage Institute in Amsterdam,
Parsons School of Design
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and MIT. She has served 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 as of this writing, serves as the Baird Visiting Professor at
Cornell University
Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...
’s College of Architecture, Art & Planning as well as a Visiting Professor at Sci-Arc.
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.
In 2004,
Hani Rashid
Hani Rashid (born 1958 in Cairo) is an architect and educator. He co-founded the New York-based architecture firm, Asymptote Architecture with Lise Anne Couture.
Early life and education
Hani Rashid was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1958, his famil ...
and Lise Anne Couture were presented with the ''Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts'' in recognition of exceptional contributions to the progress and merging of the disciplines and fields of art and architecture.
Publications
* Hani Rashid, Lise Anne Couture: ''Asymptote. Architecture at the Interval'', Rizzoli 1995,
* Hani Rashid, Lise Anne Couture: ''Asymptote: Flux'', Phaidon Press 2002,
* Hani Rashid, Lise Anne Couture: ''Asymptote: Works and Projects'', Skira 2002,
* Hani Rashid, Lise Anne Couture: ''Asymptote Architecture Actualizations'', Asia Art & Design Cooperation 2010,
References
External links
* Lise Anne Couture museum collection at
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
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1959 births
Yale School of Architecture alumni
Living people
University of Michigan fellows
Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation faculty