[1] While at university she became the first woman to win the annual student design competition by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC).

In 1934, that design for An Embassy in the Capital City of a Country in the Temperate Zon was published in the RAIC Journal.

[2] In 1935 Cook wrote an article for RAIC Journal called The Modern Kitchen.

[2] As her career continued, Cook (now Carlisle) designed kitchens that appeared in the Formica promotional materials.

[1] Around 1945 Carlisle appeared in a series on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation about home renovations.