Patricia Glanville, Ph.D.

Dr. Glanville is grateful to have travelled as a child, having lived in Christchurch, New Zealand, Khon Kaen, Thailand, the Fiji islands and visiting family in the U.K. She is educated and trained as an architect, landscape architect and interior designer in Canada. Upon graduation from the Master or Architecture program she was awarded the Alpha Rho Chi award. She attended the inaugural Prince of Wales’s Summer School in Civil Architecture, 1990. Ms. Glanville has lectured, taught and juried at various universities, polytechnic and trades institutions on the merits of classical and traditional design, construction and conservation. She has presented at conferences in Canada such as the National Trust, Canadian Society of Landscape Architects, Canadian Masonry Symposium, and internationally, CNU and in Thailand at KKU. She has served on boards such as the Architectural Society of Saskatchewan, the Manitoba Building Envelope Council, and ICOMOS Canada. After attending the Princes Summer School again in 2015, Dr. Glanville co-founded the Canadian Institute of Traditional Architecture and Art, engaging students in workshops and research about traditional design, including Canadian Indigenous projects and conservation of existing historic sites.

Work

Early in her career, Dr. Glanville mentored with Marshall Haid Architects who had heritage conservation and rehabilitation projects in Winnipeg’s Exchange District, an area rich with classical buildings. Some of these projects received Preservation Awards for Excellence from Heritage Winnipeg, 1987 and 1989. Working with Harold Funk Architect the project for D’8schtove Restaurant received the 1989 Governor General’s Award in Architecture. She also worked throughout rural Manitoba for the Mainstreet Manitoba Program. After attending the first Prince’s Summer School, she started an interdisciplinary practice, inspired to provide a more spiritually, psychologically positive traditional and classical perspective in an otherwise Modernist milieu. Academic teaching experience has included the University of Manitoba, School of Architecture, at both the undergraduate and graduate level, University of Calgary, Environmental Design program, the Saskatchewan Polytechnic, and internationally in Thailand. Dr. Glanville has also led masonry conservation workshops for trades and professionals in Alberta and Saskatchewan. In private practice her firm designed buildings taking into account regional historic prototypes such as local vernacular Beaux Arts buildings. She eventually worked for the Province of Saskatchewan as the Provincial Heritage Architect, guiding Lieutenant Governor award-winning heritage projects to completion, such as the Saskatchewan Legislature Building’s dome and masonry rehabilitation project. She was also technical and design advisor to the Mainstreet Saskatchewan Program and the Saskatchewan Heritage Foundation, one community of which received the Prince of Wales Prize in 2019. Dr. Glanville was then consultant to the Saskatchewan Heritage Foundation and worked with the Prince’s Charities Canada on a conservation plan for the Claybank Brick Plant, National Historic Site. Ms. Glanville then worked for the Government of Canada, Public Works on heritage conservation projects in Banff National Park, Alberta and southern region.  She has also hosted masonry workshops for professionals, trade unions and the general pubic in Alberta. Ms. Glanville has also served as adjudicator for the Alberta Masonry Design Awards.

She is most proud of her doctoral research, completed in 2005, into the effects of architecture on spirituality and well-being. She has since done further work on conservation projects for historic churches in Saskatchewan in which the principles influencing increased well-being are evident.

Select Publications

• Glanville, P. Conservation Report, Zion United Church, Moosejaw, Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan Polytech, History of Architecture 221, Workshop and Studio, 2021
• Glanville, P., Session Speaker, “Create Vision, Inspire Action, Energize”, Heritage Energized 2016, National Trust.
• Claybank Brick Plant Rehabilitation Plan, with Princes’s Charities Canada, for the Saskatchewan Heritage Foundation, 2013.
• Glanville, P., Claybank Brick Plant: Moisture Diversion Recommendations for Building and Site,12^th Canadian Masonry Symposium, June 2-5, 2013.
• Glanville, P., Hartloper J., “Claremount House Remediation Report”. The A.O. Wheeler House Foundation, Banff, Alberta, October, 2010.
• Glanville, P. “The Effect of the Interaction of Architecture, Culture and Nature on Well-being and Spirituality”. Ph.D. Dissertation, 2007.
• Glanville, P., “Landscape Architecture: Lost in the Process of Development”. Canadian Society of Landscape Architects, Congress 2010, August 20, Edmonton, Alberta.
• Glanville, P., “Watershed and Topsoil: Amenities to Consider in Suburban Development”. Alberta Low Impact Development Partnership, November, 2007.
• Glanville, P., Green Awakening. Canadian Architect. January, 2002. P30. The article promoted the importance of sustainable architecture in both practice and education.
• Glanville, P., “A Matter of Pride and Identity; Leland Hotel, part of our history, culture”. Winnipeg Free Press, August 22, 1998.
• Glanville, P. and Dolovich, J., Architects’ Perception of Masonry – An evaluation of architects’ use and perception of masonry as a building product. A study commissioned by the Manitoba Masonry Council, presented for the proceedings of the Fifth Canadian Masonry Symposium, Vancouver, B.C.
• Glanville, P., Hasler, G., Lam, H.T., Ptashnick, R., McLachlan T., and Smyrski, R., Analysis and Documentation of Historical Residential Districts and Building Prototypes in Dauphin & Brandon – A Report supervised and commissioned by the Government of Manitoba and the Manitoba Heritage Federation, in conjunction with the Department of Architecture, University of Manitoba, 1985 under the supervision of W.P. Thompson, Ph.D.