Sophie Kaltenback

Sophie completed her Bachelor of Architecture at Université de Montréal, including a year as an exchange student at École nationale d’architecture de Versailles (ENSA-V), in France. She then completed her master’s degree in architecture at Université de Montréal. Her final study project, coordinated by Claudine Déom and supervised by Gavin Affleck, dealt with the adaptative reuse of a place of worship, specifically Christ Memorial Church, conceived in 1965 by Roger d’Astous. The project’s focus is on how to enhance and to insert a contemporary use to a modern church with great heritage value.

Prior to joining ERA Architects, Sophie worked as an inspector in the municipality of Mont-Saint-Hilaire and in the arrondissement of Plateau-Mont-Royal, where she had her first experiences in the field of municipal regulations. She also completed a research internship in architecture at the Société québécoisedes infrastructures (SQI), in order to set up a methodology for analyzing the heritage value of the buildings in this government agency’s building stock.