About us
Patkau Architects is an innovative architecture and design research studio based in Vancouver, Canada. There are currently four principals: John Patkau, Patricia Patkau, Greg Boothroyd, and David Shone; three senior associates: Peter Suter, Michael Thorpe, and Mike Green; and three associates: Katy Young, Tom Schroeder, and Dimitri Koubatis. In over 44 years of practice, we have been responsible for the design of a wide variety of project types for a diverse range of clients. Projects vary in scale from gallery installations to master planning, from houses to major urban libraries and galleries. Many projects have involved functional programming, management of detailed public processes, and design of complex buildings and sites. The practice is also actively engaged in architectural research. Our current work explores the potential resulting from the response of materials to applications of force. A compedium of these investigations will be publised in Patkau Architects: Material Operations, a forthcoming book published by Princeton Architectural Press. Current work includes the School of Biomedical Engineering at UBC's Vancouver campus; the Thunder Bay Art Gallery in Thunder Bay, Ontario; Kiweki Point in Ottawa; as well as several private commercial and residential projects. As the circumstances of the work change, our interests expand. We seek to explore the full richness and diversity of architectural practice, understanding it as a critical cultural act that engages our most fundamental desires and aspirations. We refuse singular definitions of architecture: as art, as technology, as social service, as environmental agent, as political statement. We embrace all these definitions, together, as part of the rich, complex and vital discipline that we believe architecture to be.
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http://www.patkau.ca/
External link for Patkau Architects
- Industry
- Architecture and Planning
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Vancouver, BC
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 1978
Locations
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Primary
1564 6th Ave
Vancouver, BC V6J 1R2, CA
Employees at Patkau Architects
Updates
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No better place for a staff party than at one of our projects! https://lnkd.in/g4fTP8Yx
Patkau Architects on Instagram: "Bowen House embraces a spectacular panorama over the Salish Sea and its rugged coastal landscape. In late summer, the setting sun casts a luminous glow over the water, house, and rocky cliff. Drone piloting and videography by our very own @bryn_martin #patkau #patkauarchitects #architecture #vancouverarchitecture #bowenhouse #bowenisland #design #residentialarchite
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Patkau Architects on Instagram: "We're back!"
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Hope to see you at this year's RAIC conference in Vancouver! https://lnkd.in/gA5hQQmH
2024 RAIC Research & Innovation in Architecture Award
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Interview with John Patkau, Daniel Cohlmeyer, Shallyn Murray, and Silva Stojak on architectural legacy is now available to read online: https://lnkd.in/g5-Dd44p
Canadian Architect’s November 2023 issue: https://lnkd.in/g2ruVXdh Special Focus: STATE OF THE PROFESSION – Analyzing Canada’s Architectural Practices. What is the state of the architectural profession in Canada? We delve into selected results from the newly available ‘Canadian Architectural Practices Benchmark Report (2023 edition)’. Also RAIC - IRAC Journal and much more! Cover: This month’s cover art was selected for its resonance with the issue’s key themes: the present and future of architecture, and the profound loss of several members of Canada’s architecture community over the past months. Toronto-based Miles Gertler and Madrid-based Igor Bragado are the co-directors of experimental design studio Common Accounts, and created the installation Three Ordinary Funerals for the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, later adapting it for The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Korea. Modelled to sit atop an urban hanok, the prototypical funeral home and disposition site proposes to reverse the distancing of death from daily life, and argues for the presence of ceremony in the domestic realm. #architecture #architects #canadianarchitect #buildingdesign #construction #engineering #design #sustainability #aecindustry #aec #interiordesign #commercialinteriors #magazine #b2bmedia #publishing #businessmedia #canada
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