Anne-Marie Petter

Anne-Marie has a background in architecture (baccalaureate, 1994) and in project management (M.Sc.A., 2008). She is currently a PhD candidate in urbanism at the University of Montreal. Prior to this curriculum, she led a 20-year career in private practice, carrying out projects of various natures and sizes in Canada, the United States and Haiti. From 2008, she devoted herself to the management of large-scale institutional projects, including the Maison symphonique de Montréal and two hospitals in Haiti, where she was director of operations for Ædifica Sud, an architecture and urban planning firm of Port-au-Prince. Challenged by the desire to better understand the context of intervention in developing countries and to contribute to it in a different way, she momentarily put her practice on hold by devoting herself to research. Her interests focus on the self-organization of communities in informal urban contexts, and her thesis deals with the production of public space in a self-urbanized city on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince. Alongside her doctoral curriculum, Anne-Marie coordinates the activities of the Fayolle-Magil Construction Chair. Since 2015, she has collaborated on several research mandates, including two on urbanization issues in Port-au-Prince. She has also been a teaching assistant in master's workshops in architecture in Cuba and Haiti.