Lise Anne Couture

Lise Anne Couture (born 1959 in Montreal, Canada) is a Canadian architect and educator.

[3] It was at Carleton University she met her future husband and business partner, Hani Rashid.

[5] Couture's work as a principal of Asymptote includes: She 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 2004, Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture were presented with the Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts in recognition of exceptional contributions to the progress and merging of the disciplines and fields of art and architecture.