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Andree Iffrig - Profile
Andrée Iffrig is a writer and award-winning graduate architect with a passion for all things sustainable. She uses her broad background in art and environmental design to investigate trends in architecture and urban design. Andrée interviews famous architects for Canadian design magazine, elemente, and is a social activist with a long history in community development, locally and internationally.
Andrée is the author of Find Your Voice at Work: The Power of Storytelling in the Workplace (Limegrass 2007) and co-author with Keith Seel of BEING A Governor: A Process for Board Development (Mt. Royal College 2006). Storytelling is a life-long love that finds its way into her professional speaking as well.
Writing for elemente design magazine, Andrée has interviewed some of the stars of the sustainable design movement, most recently Cameron Sinclair, TED winner and humanitarian; Paul Goldberger, Pulitzer-prise winning architectural critic for The New Yorker magazine; Bill Valentine, Chair of HOK, one of the world’s largest architectural and urban planning firms; and Alejandro Zaera-Polo, founder of Foreign Office Architects.
Never content with the status quo, Andrée is currently exploring what organizations can learn from the field of sustainable design. Her articles at Suite 101 celebrate outstanding examples of sustainability, critique corporate greenwashing and educate readers about sustainability principles that have stood the test of time.
In addition to her writing for Suite 101 and elemente, Andrée has contributed recently to Canadian Manager, Training Matters, Network and E-Source (publications of the Human Resources Institute of Alberta), Charity Village NewsWeek and Gift Planning in Canada.
Over the years, Andrée has received several awards, including a Medal from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada for her thesis project, a Ganesha award from the Faculty of Environmental Design at the Institute of Technology in Bandung, Indonesia for her community development work, and recognition for her winning teams in corporate challenges at the Calgary Chamber of Commerce.