Lise Anne Couture
Lise Anne Couture (born in 1959) is a Canadian architect and educator. She is the co-founder of Asymptote Architecture, in partnership with Hani Rashid. She is based in Brooklyn, New York.
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- Name
- Lise Anne Couture
- Born
- 1959
- Education
- Carleton University, Yale University
- Known for
- Architecture
- Spouse
- Hani Rashid
- Nationality
- Canada
- Occupation
- architect
- Honours
- Frederick Kiesler Prize
- Languages
- English
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Lise Anne Couture (born in 1959) is a Canadian architect and educator. She is the co-founder of Asymptote Architecture, in partnership with Hani Rashid. She is based in Brooklyn, New York.
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Lise Anne Couture (born 1959) is an architect, of Canadian nationality. The architect was born in Montreal. Lise Anne Couture was educated at Carleton University, Yale School of Architecture and Yale University.
Languages used include English. Works are held at Nieuwe Instituut, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. Honours include Frederick Kiesler Prize.
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Lise Anne Couture studied at Carleton University, Yale University and Yale School of Architecture. The recorded working language is English. Work by Lise Anne Couture is recorded in the collections of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and Nieuwe Instituut. Distinctions recorded are Frederick Kiesler Prize.

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Key facts
• Name — Lise Anne Couture • Born — 1959 • Other Names — Liseanne Couture • Education — Carleton University, Yale University • Known for — Architecture • Spouse — Hani Rashid
Early life and education
Early life and education
Lise Anne Couture was born in 1959 in Montreal, Canada. She attended Carleton University and received a bachelor's degree in architecture in 1983. At Carleton, she met her future husband and business partner, Hani Rashid. She received a Master's of Architecture degree in 1986 from Yale University.
Architectural work
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 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates • 2002 – HydraPier Pavilion in Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands • 1996 – Universe Theater in Aarhus, Denmark • 1997 – Aarhus Museum of Modern Art in Aarhus, Denmark
Identity
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Lise Anne Couture is recorded as having received Frederick Kiesler Prize.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1959
Lise Anne Couture born at Montreal.
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,
Teaching
Couture has held numerous academic appointments, including the Bishop Chair and Saarinen Chair at Yale University; the Muschenheim Fellowship at the University of Michigan; 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 (SCI-Arc), the University of Virginia, l'Université de Montréal, the Barrage Institute in Amsterdam, Parsons School of Design, and MIT. She has served on the faculty of Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. In 2009, she held the Davenport Chair at Yale University as a visiting professor, and was the Baird Visiting Professor at Cornell University's College of Architecture, Art & Planning, as well as a visiting professor at Sci-Arc. 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 and the advisory board of the Builders' Association, and serves on the federal government's GSA Design Excellence Peer Review Board. In 2004, Rashid and Couture were presented with the Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts in recognition of their contributions to the progress and merging of the disciplines and fields of art and architecture.
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- 1.Home Tour: A Waterfront Escape in Brooklyn. Departures.
- 2.Lise Anne Couture. MoMA.
- 3.Carleton University. Where are they now?. Carleton Now. 2003-12-01.
- 4.Yale University. Yale exhibition highlights foundations of digital architecture. YaleNews. 2014-11-24.
- 5.The Yas Hotel by Asymptote. Dezeen. 2009-05-14.
- 6.Pogrebin, Robin. A Luxury Condo by Arty Architects From the Fringe. The New York Times. 28 June 2007.
- 7.166 Perry Street Residences. Front Inc.
- 8.The Yas Hotel. Architectural Record. December 2009.
- 9.Project Portfolio: HydraPier. Architectural Record.
- 10.Helen., Searing. Equal partners : men and women principals in contemporary architectural practice. Smith College Museum of Art. 1998. 0873910508.
- 11.Kiesler Prize 2004. Kiesler. 2018-02-04.
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Lise Anne Couture received Frederick Kiesler Prize. Connected to 2 other published records in the VALÉORINE Encyclopedia.
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