2012 Fellows - Royal Architectural Institute of Canada

Norman E. Grey-Noble
Norm Grey-Noble graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor
of Architecture degree in 1973. He joined the Ontario Association of Architects
in1978, and joined the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada in 2000. Following
his internship with Barton Myers Associates and employment with Carruthers
Shaw and Partners Limited and Clifford Lawrie Bolton Ritchie Architects he
founded Grey-Noble & Moore Architects in 1982. Eventually, that firm merged
with Carruthers Shaw and Partners, where he was a principal until 1995. In 1995,
Norm and his wife Helen, also a registered architect, formed Grey-Noble & Grey-
Noble Architects. In 2005, that firm merged with the IBI Group, where he was an
associate/principal architect for educational facilities until his retirement in 2011.
The principal focus of his career his career has been the design and construction
of educational facilities of all types. In addition to the design phases of his work,
Norm was heavily involved with the programming and master planning of schools
and in 1988 he became an REFP, a Recognized Educational Facility Planner by the
Council of Educational Planners International. Three of his projects, The Canadian
International School in Hong Kong, Milliken Mills Secondary School and Earl
Haig Secondary School received project of distinction awards from the Council
of Educational Facility Planners International. His firm Grey-Noble and Moore
Architects also received a Governor General’s Award in 1986 for their project for
Netscape Marketing Ltd.
His interest in schools naturally progressed to working with the not-for-profit
organization, Schools for Children of the World Canada in both the hands-on
construction and the planning of schools in Honduras and Haiti. He is currently
president of SCW Canada and is involved with fundraising and facilitating further
school construction in Honduras and Haiti.
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