Blanche Lemco van Ginkel
General Information
Occupation: Architect
Date of Birth: December 14, 1923
Birth City: London
Resident City: Toronto
Resident State/Province: Ontario
Resident Country: Canada
Notes: Finding aid: http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/vt/viblbv00185.xml.frame
Archive/Repository: IAWA Online Inventory at: http://spec.lib.vt.edu/IAWhA/inventories/ginkel.htm; documents at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; and the University of Toronto archives.
Sources: CV from Ms van Ginkel
Specialties
No specialties on record
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