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John Patkau
John Patkau is a founding principal of Patkau Architects, the Vancouver practice he leads with Patricia Patkau and other principals.
Background & practice
John Patkau is a founding principal of Patkau Architects, the Vancouver practice he leads with Patricia Patkau and other principals. Its projects range from urban and community buildings to houses, installations and furniture. The RAIC's 2023 practice-award profile describes a search for the potential already present in a place, together with full-scale material experiments that help connect studio research to constructed architecture.
How to read the work
Look for architectural possibilities in landscape, history and circumstance, then test the relationship between material, force and form at full scale before translating research into buildings.
Founding principal explicitly identified in a collective practice profile; individual project authorship is not inferred.
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