Adams’ research interests focus on two areas: architecture for health and “domesticities,” the expression of domestic imagery outside the traditional home. Current papers explore architecture for neurosurgery, a spatial biography of Maude Abbott, longterm care design, Art Deco hospital lobbies, and masculinity and men’s clubs. She is supervising PhD dissertations on women in German bunkers during World War II, toy houses, Indian Residential School architecture, the WCTU shelter in Montreal, women in the Mexican revolution, domestic architecture in the Philippines, working-class housing in Venezuela, progressive school design, housing for Canada’s north, and homelessness.
