Jobs

Employer: University of Toronto

Title: Professor and Director of the School of Architecture

City: Toronto

State: Ontario

Country: Canada

Start Date: 1977

End Date: 1980

Notes: Professor Emeritus in 1992

Employer: University of Pennsylvania

Title: Assistant Professor of Architecture

State: Pennsylvania

Country: United States

Start Date: 1951

End Date: 1957

Employer: Atelier Le Corbusier

Title: Architect

City: Paris

State: Ontario

Country: Canada

Start Date: 1948

End Date: 1948

Employer: City Planning Office

Title: Manager

City: Regina

State: Ontario

Country: Canada

Start Date: 1946

End Date: 1946

Employer: National Film Board of Canada

Title: Technical Assistant

State: Ontario

Country: Canada

Start Date: 1943

End Date: 1944

Employer: van Ginkel Associates

Title: Partner

City: Toronto

State: Ontario

Country: Canada

Start Date: 1957

Notes: also Montreal, Quebec

Employer: University of Toronto

Title: Dean of Faculty, Architecture and Landscape Architecture

City: Toronto

State: Ontario

Country: Canada

Start Date: 1980

End Date: 1982

Employer: McGill University

Title: Visiting professor in Urban Planning

Start Date: January 01, 1971

End Date: January 01, 1977

Employer: Harvard University

Title: Visiting lecturer in Graduate School of Design (1958)

Notes: In 1970s lectured in City Planning and Urban Design

Employer: Institut d'Urbvanisme, Universite de Montreal

Title: Lecturer

City: Montreal

State: Quebec

Country: Canada

End Date: January 01, 1961

Notes: also 1969-1970

Employer: Blanche Lemco Architect

Title: Sole Principal

Start Date: January 01, 1952

End Date: January 01, 1958

Employer: Mayerovitch and Bernstein

Title: Designer

City: Montreal

State: Quebec

Country: Canada

Start Date: January 01, 1950

End Date: January 01, 1951

Employer: Le Corbusier

Title: Architect/designer

City: Paris

Country: France

Start Date: January 01, 1948

End Date: January 01, 1948

Employer: W. Crabtree

Title: Architecture assistant

City: London

Country: Great

Start Date: January 01, 1947

End Date: January 01, 1947

Employer: Regina City Planning Committee

Title: Manager

City: Regina

State: Saskatchewan

Country: Canada

Start Date: January 01, 1946

End Date: January 01, 1946

Collaborators

No collaborators on record

Apprenticeships

No apprenticeships on record

Awards

Name: International Federation of Housing and Planning (IFHP) Grand Prix for Film

Date Received: 1956

Name: Woman of the Year

Description: awarded by Mademoiselle Magazine

Date Received: 1956

Name: Massey Medal for Architecture

Date Received: 1962

Name: Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal

Date Received: 1977

Name: Distinguished Professor Award

Description: Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA)

Date Received: 1989

Notes: ACSA Service Award 1984

Name: Canadian Citizenship Citation

Date Received: 1991

Name: Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal

Date Received: January 01, 2002

Name: Member, Order of Canada

Date Received: 2000

Name: Canadian Architect Magazine Award

Date Received: January 01, 1961

Name: Doctorat Honoris Causa

Description: Université Paul Cézanne Aix-Marseille

Date Received: January 01, 2005

Name: Montreal YWCA Award

Date Received: January 01, 1975

Name: U of Toronto Architecture and Landscape Architecture Alumni Award

Date Received: January 01, 1991

Name: Award of Merit

Description: McGill Alma Mater Fund

Date Received: January 01, 1995

Name: Award Le Prix Blanche Lemco van Ginkel

Description: Corporation des Urbanistes du Québec named an award for van Ginkel

Date Received: January 01, 2003

Name: Colloque Franco-Canadien Blanche Lemco van Ginkel, Aix-en-Provence

Description: Symposium Metropoles en France et au Canada

Date Received: November 01, 2005

Exhibitions

Title: Plan for a Park

Description: Kroeller-Mueller Museum, Otterloo, Netherlands, 1959; and in Tokyo, Japan, 1960.

Notes: Exhibition of work of van Ginkel Associates

Title: Proposals for "Le Vieux Montréal"

Description: Place Ville Marie, Montréal

End Date: January 01, 1963

Title: Movement in Midtown

City: New York City

State: New York

Country: United States

End Date: January 01, 1973

Title: Ginkelvan

Description: International Transportation Exhibition

City: Washington, D.C.

State: District of Columbia

Country: United States

End Date: January 01, 1973

Title: The Ginkelvan in Rockefeller Plaza

City: New York City

State: New York

Country: United States

End Date: January 01, 1973

Title: "Spectrum Canada"

Description: In Royal Canadian Academy of Arts touring exhibition

Start Date: January 01, 1975

End Date: January 01, 1976

Title: Model of first Expo 67 proposal. (1962)

Description: at Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal

End Date: January 01, 1993

Title: Model of first Expo 67 proposal in "The Collections of the CCA, 1989-1999"

Description: at the CCA

Country: Canada

End Date: January 01, 1999

Title: Several works in "The 60s Montreal Things Big"

Description: at the Canadian Centre for Architecture

City: Montreal

State: Quebec

Country: Canada

Start Date: January 01, 2004

End Date: January 01, 2005

Title: “Penser Tout Haut/Faire l’Architecture”

Description: Centre de Design, Université du Québec à Montréal

City: Montreal

State: Quebec

Country: Canada

End Date: January 01, 2010

Title: Eastview

Description: for the Philadelphia Housing Authority

End Date: January 01, 1956

Notes: Exhibition of own work (prior to VGA)

Title: With GAI, Philadelphia: An Answer to Levittown

Description: at CIAM, Dubrovnik

End Date: January 01, 1956

Notes: Exhibition of own work (prior to VGA)

Title: Study of Decatur, Illinois

Description: for ACTION, (American Council to Improve Our Neighborhoods)

City: Coliseum, New York

End Date: January 01, 1955

Notes: Exhibition of own work (prior to VGA)

Title: Study of the Row House

City: Philadelphia

State: Pennsylvania

Country: United States

End Date: January 01, 1954

Notes: Exhibition of own work (prior to VGA)

Title: With GAI, Philadelphia, Study of Levittown

Description: at CIAM

City: Aix-en-Provence

Country: France

End Date: January 01, 1953

Notes: Exhibition of own work (prior to VGA)

Title: Designs for "Everyman" (McGill U. production)

Description: at Montreal Museum of Fine Art

City: Montreal

State: Quebec

Country: Canada

End Date: January 01, 1946

Notes: Exhibition of own work (prior to VGA)

Title: "Italian Portraits", Sorel Etrog sculpture and prints at Italian Cultural Institute

Description: Installation of exhibit

City: Toronto

State: Ontario

Country: Canada

End Date: January 01, 1999

Title: "Earthworks"

Description: Curator and installation for the RCA, at the John B. Aird Gallery

City: Toronto

State: Ontario

Country: Canada

Start Date: January 01, 1994

Title: "Art For Giving"

Description: Curator and installation, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts

City: Toronto

State: Ontario

Country: Canada

Start Date: January 01, 1991

Title: "Teatro Magico" and "Four Generations of Italian Artists

Description: Co-curator/installation at RCA

City: Toronto

State: Ontario

Country: Canada

Start Date: January 01, 1990

Notable Projects

Title: McGill University study of housing in Montreal

Description: for CMHC

City: Montreal

State: Quebec

Country: Canada

End Date: January 01, 1952

Notes: Participant in study

Title: Study for urban mapping and production of publication

Description: for CMHC

End Date: January 01, 1949

Notes: Participant

Title: ACTION (American Council to Improve Our Neighbourhoods), pilot study of urban renewal in Decatur, Illinois, 1955

Description: Consultant to study

End Date: January 01, 1955

Notes: Exhibited at the Coliseum, New York City

Title: Pan-American Union on Library Material, slide collection

Description: Consultant to collection project

End Date: January 01, 1955

Title: Lectures on architecture on CBC radio

Description: Participant

End Date: January 01, 1957

Title: Film on aided self-help housing for the U. S. State Department

Description: Wrote and produced the film

End Date: January 01, 1955

Notes: Film won the Grand Prix for Film of the International Federation of Housing and Planning 1956.

Title: "Suburban Living - Six Solutions", 1959-60 (CBC and U.S. television).

Description: Consultant to the National Film Board of Canada and appeared in the film

Start Date: January 01, 1959

End Date: January 01, 1960

Title: Expo '67, Montreal, on the Theme of the International Exhibition

Description: Consultant

End Date: January 01, 1963

Education

Institution: McGill University

Department: Architecture

Degree: Bachelor of Architecture

End Date: 1945

Notes: McGill entrance scholarship; Miss I. McLennan Prize for highest standing in final year; Lieutenant-Governor's Medal, McGill 1945.

Institution: Harvard University

Degree: Master of City Planning

Start Date: January 01, 1948

End Date: 1950

Notes: Harvard Graduate Fellowships 1948, 1949

Licensing

No licenses on record

Professional Affiliations

Organization: Royal Architectural Institute of Canada

Role: Fellow 1973; Executive committee 1971-74

Organization: American Institute of Architects

Role: Honorary Fellow

Start Date: January 01, 1995

Notes: Joint AIA/ACSA Awards Committee 1987-1988; Philadelphia Chapter AIA Design Award Jury, 1979

Organization: International Archive of Women in Architecture at Virginia Tech

Role: Founding member of the Board of Advisors

Start Date: January 01, 1985

End Date: January 01, 2000

Organization: Canadian Institute of Planners

Role: Retired member, Board of Directors 1961-64

Organization: Association Collegiate Scholars Architecture

Role: Board of Directors 1981-84; Vice President 1985-86; President 1986-87

Organization: Association Royal Institute British Architects

Role: Associate

Organization: Royal Canadian Academy of Architects

Role: Board of Directors 1992-present

Organization: Ontario Association of Architects

Role: Life member

End Date: January 01, 1998

Notes: Served on Registration Board 1978-1984

Organization: Royal Canadian Academy of Arts

Role: Member

Organization: Toronto Society of Architects

Role: Fellow

Start Date: January 01, 1998

Organization: Canada Council for the Arts

Role: Architecture Jury, 2005

Notes: Also served on other juries, editorships, offices in associations

Organization: Congrés Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne

Role: Member

Start Date: January 01, 1948

End Date: January 01, 1958

Organization: Harvard Graduate School of Design

Role: Tenure committee, 1984; Alumni Council 1992-97, Secretary 1957-60; Final Reviews, 1997; Advisory Committee, Planning Program, 1981; Advisory committee, Board of Overseers, 1981-87

Notes: Harvard 350th Anniversary Celebration, panelist in symposium at GSD,1986; Panel on Education, Gopius/Hudnut Symposium, May 1997; "Translation," LeCorbusier symposium, October, 1966

Publications By

Title: "Slowly and Surely (and somewhat painfully): more or less the History of Women in Architecture in Canada"

Publication: Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada Bulletin

Volume: Vol 17, No 1, March 1991

Date Published: March 01, 1991

Notes: Refereed Paper. Also non-refereed in The Canadian Architect, Nov. 1993

Title: "Planning Action By Indirection" Environments

Publication: Environments

Volume: Vol 20, No 3

Date Published: January 01, 1990

Notes: Referreed paper

Title: "New Towns in the North"

Publication: Contact

Volume: Vol 8, No 3, August 1976

Date Published: January 01, 1976

Notes: Refereed paper. Faculty of Environmental Studies, University of Waterloo

Title: "The Form of the Core",

Publication: Journal of American Institute of Planners

Issue: February 1961

Date Published: January 01, 1961

Notes: Refereed paper

Publications About

Title: Canadian Encyclopaedia; Canadian Who's Who

Author: Authors unknown

Notes: Also in several similar publications in USA and internationally

Title: Dominion Modern

Author: Author unknown

City: Toronto

State: Ontario

Country: Canada

Title: Highways and bridges article

Author: Linda Gyulai

Publication: Gazette newspaper

Issue: 4 August 2007

City: Montreal

State: Quebec

Country: Canada

Date Published: September 04, 2007

Title: “La Modernité Critique, autour du CIAM 9 d’Aix-en-Provence – 1953”

Author: Author unknown

Publication: Editions Imbernon

Date Published: January 01, 2006

Title: "Blanche Lemco van Ginnkel and the Urban Aesthetics of Montreal"

Author: Margaret Hodges

Publication: Dissertation

Publisher: McGill University

Date Published: January 01, 2004

Title: Several works in The 60s Montreal Thinks Big

Author: ed. Andre Lortie

Publisher: Canadian Centre for Architecture

Date Published: January 01, 2004

Title: Article

Author: Author unknown

Publication: Urbanite

Volume: Volume 2, No. 3, Nov. 2003

Date Published: November 01, 2003

Title: Subject of a M. A. Thesis

Author: Adrienne Richter

Publication: Thesis

Publisher: Carleton University

Date Published: January 01, 2002

Title: Articles in Toronto Star, Montreal Star, Montreal Gazette, New York Times, New York Magazine, New Yorker, Winnipeg Free Press, Regina Leader Post; Canadian Architect, Progressive Architecture, Architectural Record, l'Architecture d'Aujourdhui, Architectural Design.

Author: Authors unknown

Publication: Journals, magazines, newspapers

Title: "Une entrevue avec Blanche Lemco van Ginkel, Cofondatrice de l'Ordre des urbanistes du Québec".

Author: Andre Boivert.

Publication: Urbanite

Date Published: January 01, 1999

Notes: 1999, cahier spécial. Pub. OUQ. (reprinted Nov. 2003)

Title: “Designing Women”.

Author: Annmarie Adams and Peta Tancred

Publisher: U. of Toronto Press

Date Published: January 2000

Title: “The CIAM Discourse on Urbanism”

Author: Eric Mumford

Publisher: MIT Press

Date Published: January 01, 2000

Title: Newsletter of the International Archive of Women Architects

Author: Author unknown

Publication: Newsletter

Issue: Fall 1999

Date Published: January 01, 1999

Title: "Queens of the Road"

Author: Author unknown

Publication: Canadian Motorist

Date Published: June 01, 1971

Title: "En Chantier, The Collections of the Canadian Centre for Architecture 1989-1999"

Author: Author unknown

Publication: Collection

Date Published: January 01, 1999

Title: "Civic Visions, World's Fairs"

Author: Author unknown

Publisher: Canadian Centre for Architecture

Date Published: January 01, 1993

Title: "New Patterns for a Metropolis"

Author: Author unknown

Publication: Architectural Forum

Date Published: October 01, 1971

Title: “Movement in Midtown: New York City.”

Author: Author unknown

Publication: “Ekistics”

Volume: Vol. 33 No. 194

Date Published: January 01, 1972

Title: Student work

Author: Author unknown

Publication: Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Journal

Notes: 1940s