Want to know more about the local professional community? This will be an opportunity for you to meet with local firms to talk about the work they do and the employment opportunities they may have coming up. Each office will host a table on the second floor of Lasserre and students will be free to visit the firms they are interested in.
Please note that participating firms are subject to change.
Participating firms
Architecture
Acton Ostry Architects (AOA) is a leading Canadian design practice recognized for the creation of eloquent and innovative public institutional and mixed-use residential buildings. Our design approach thoughtfully reflects local topography, climate, culture, and history while incorporating new technologies and materials that contribute to the realization of buildings rooted in a considered, modernist idiom.
Carscadden Stokes McDonald Architects is a collaborative, full-service architectural studio of ingenious pragmatists that are dedicated to designing and building structures that strike a fine balance between beauty and function. A team of 20 led by partners Glen Stokes, Ian Ross McDonald, Mark Woytiuk, and Emma Carscadden, we are proud to have made our name designing and building some of Canada’s most respected public facilities that change communities for the better.
Cherrnoff Thompson Architect (CTA) is a partnership under the leadership of Russell Chernoff, Naomi Gross, Tony Yip, and Vicki Sucic Hruskovec. We are based in Vancouver, BC and specialize in innovative, holistic design solutions for our Advanced Education, Healthcare, Biotech/Science, Public/Civic, and Workplace clients. Established in 1981, we have continued to expand our scope of practice with projects throughout Canada and the US. We also have affiliated firms under overlapping ownership: Chernoff Thompson Architects North in Prince George, BC, and Jensen Chernoff Thompson Architects in Victoria, BC.
With a team of individuals hailing from 20 different countries, we nurture an inclusive and collaborative working environment throughout the organization by bringing together our staff’s diverse range of perspectives, experiences, and approaches. This allows us to explore with curiosity, respect, and inclusivity, leading us to discover unique solutions to everyday challenges and complex scenarios. Our team’s energy, forward-thinking progressiveness, and innovation inspire us to surpass boundaries and achieve remarkable design feats together.
DIALOG is an interdisciplinary firm with locations in Vancouver, San Francisco, Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto, and Ottawa. We bring expertise and perspective to complex projects where collaboration adds value. We are Landscape Architects, Architects, Urban Designers, Planners, Public Engagement Specialists, Engineers, Interior Designers, and Sustainability Consultants. We are passionate designers who believe in the power of built form to meaningfully improve the wellbeing of communities and the environment we all share.
Diamond Schmitt is an architectural and interior design firm based in Toronto, Canada, with offices in Vancouver and New York City. We collaborate and advocate for sustainable buildings that elevate and enrich communities through design.
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The Field Collective is a collaborative of small architecture practices (10 employees or less) located in British Columbia, Canada.
Open to any small architectural practice, our Collective membership centres on firms that are working to uphold the strictest of ethics and professional standards, and firms whose practices are shaped around addressing the pressing needs facing BC today, including:
- Supporting more affordable, high-quality housing options
- Creating more inclusive cities
- Building resiliency to manage the effects of Climate Change
- Generating high-quality, forward-thinking design.
The outcome is a community of architects that reflects the diversity of BC with the ambition to make tangible contributions to our BC communities.
Francl Architecture Inc. is a full-service architecture, interior, urban design, and landscape practice based in the heart of Vancouver.
We have had the privilege of collaborating with clients to create a portfolio of award-winning residential, institutional, recreational, and infrastructure projects. Our organizational structure emphasizes collaboration and knowledge sharing. Operating as an open-studio environment, our workspace fosters inclusion and innovation, reflecting the people-centric approach that defines our work. This spirit extends to our relationships with clients, consultants, and the broader community.
hcma designs buildings, brands, and shared experiences that connect people.
Because with collective strength, communities can work together to make a difference to the issues that matter.
Collective strength empowers our practice too. Driven by relentless curiosity, we work as one to solve complex problems from every angle. Advocating for inclusive, accessible design that embraces everyone and minimizes environmental impact.
We’re multi-skilled but driven by a shared purpose: to maximize positive impact. We achieve it by learning from others. By challenging ourselves. And by applying relentless curiosity to create the lasting change we all want to see in the world.
At HDR we believe that the way we work can add meaning and value to the world. That ideas inspire positive change. That coloring outside the lines can illuminate fresh perspectives. And that small details yield important realizations. Above all, we believe that collaboration is the best way forward.
We specialize in engineering, architecture, environmental and construction services. While we are most well-known for adding beauty and structure to communities through high-performance buildings and smart infrastructure, we provide much more than that. We create an unshakable foundation for progress because our multidisciplinary teams also include scientists, economists, builders, analysts and artists.
At Kasian we believe design can make the world better. Our team includes more than 250 architects, designers, and planners who focus on people first. We create solutions that improve daily life and help people feel more connected to the places around them. Our curiosity drives us to look at problems from different angles and uncover new ideas.
We operate globally from our offices across Canada and partner with our clients who are visionaries, passionate and courageous. Together, we create results that benefit whole communities.
Our people are at the center of everything we do. If you enjoy working with others in a creative and supportive environment and are ready for the next step in your career, we’d love to hear from you. For more visit, https://kasian.com/careers/
The office of mcfarlane biggar architects + designers (omb) is an award-winning, full-service design firm based in Vancouver and Victoria. The practice focuses on architecture and interior design, informed by deep interests in responsive urban design, thoughtful master-planning, and meaningful place-making.
omb’s studio culture harnesses the creative energy of over 50 multi-disciplinary design professionals under the guidance of a seasoned leadership team. Our collective curiosity and wide-ranging interests enrich collaborative design exploration, and form the foundation of memorable and enduring built environments delivered with sensitivity and technical prowess.
Perkins&Will, an interdisciplinary, research-based architecture and design firm, was founded on the belief that design has the power to transform lives. The firm is committed to creating a better, beautiful, more equitable world through Living Design, an approach that integrates environmental, social, and design considerations to advance ecological health and well-being. Interior Design named Perkins&Will a “Sustainability Giant” in 2024; Architizer named it the world’s “Best Sustainable Firm” in 2023; and Metropolis named it “Firm of the Year” in 2022 for its industry leadership in advancing climate action and social justice. Fast Company named Perkins&Will one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies in Architecture three times, and in 2021, it added the firm to its list of Brands That Matter, making Perkins&Will the first architecture practice in the world to earn the distinction.
With an international team of more than 2,500 professionals, Perkins&Will has over 30 studios worldwide, providing integrated services in architecture, interior design, branded environments, urban design, and landscape architecture. Partners include Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects; McLennan Design; Portland; Nelson\Nygaard; and Pierre-Yves Rochon (PYR). For more information, visit www.perkinswill.com.
Founded in 2008 and based in Vancouver, PUBLIC Architecture is a full-service practice driven by the impact of simple and functional design. As our name implies, we specialise in affordable residential, recreational, cultural, and educational facilities for non-profit, governmental, and other public sector institutions.
PUBLIC understands that excellence in design can only be born of teamwork. Our strength comes from the collective work of a diverse group of designers working in architecture, interior design, and planning. We combine the expertise of the most renowned design firms in the country with the agility and care of a small practice. We prefer to develop long-term relationships with clients and communities by responding sensitively to their stated goals.
At PUBLIC, three principals oversee the work of a 31-member team to encourage knowledge transfer and mentorship. PUBLIC typically works collaboratively in cross-disciplinary teams, turning design and budget challenges into award-winning and innovative projects. We have developed a track record for thinking fast on our feet and leading a responsive team. Our firm has been recognized with honours and awards for our ability to innovate, solve complex problems, and deliver lasting value.
Revery is a Vancouver-based and internationally recognized architecture, interior design, and planning practice with a specialization in cultural and communal spaces such as theatre and performance arts facilities, university buildings and campuses, libraries, and community centres. Committed to a philosophy of building beyond buildings, we are passionate about placemaking and aligning architecture with broader community initiatives to shape inspiring, authentically responsive buildings. Our designs seek to improve quality of life and bring joy by encouraging connection and engaging the senses.
Our innovation-oriented studio balances creative reverie with technical excellence and a sensitive urban planning approach that is guided by the people and natural settings we serve. Our ongoing work includes the PNE Amphitheatre, a precedent-setting venue in the heart of historic Hastings Park; Sen̓áḵw, an Indigenous-led, 11-tower mixed-use community development on the False Creek waterfront; and the Greater Vernon Cultural Centre, a new cultural hub including a theatre, gallery and museum spaces.
Rafael Santa Ana Architecture Workshop practices with building technologies that adapt to the specific requirements of each program, while fabricating expressive contemporary interventions that contribute to the wider community in a thoughtful and meaningful manner.
Stantec Architecture champions Design Excellence, Delivered Brilliantly. Our attention focuses on Clarity, Purpose, Discovery, Performance and Craft in each of our projects, across the full spectrum of building and client types. We are a collaborative and multi-disciplinary design firm in British Columbia and with offices around the world. Our integrated design practice—encompassing architecture, buildings engineering, interior design, and more—keeps people at its heart, recognizing that our shared journey forward is shaped by the meaningful and responsive places we design. Interior or exterior, we design spaces true to each site’s unique context and adaptable to changing needs. Spaces that engage and uplift us. Spaces that contribute to our sense of health and well-being. And spaces that fulfill our clients’ missions while enriching the communities that surround them.
ZGF is an industry leader in sustainable and regenerative design. We embraced sustainable design as a core value long before green or LEED became common phrases. As stewards of the built environment, our applied research and learnings over the past 70 years allow us to invent new approaches that address urgent climate challenges in complex building types including laboratories, hospitals, learning spaces at colleges and universities, and corporate headquarters.
Urban planning has influenced our work since the firm’s inception‚ we design buildings and cities that harness the opportunities of a carbon neutral future. Alongside this, we strengthen our clients’ ESG goals with design solutions that embody their mission, vision, and values.
We are dedicated to working with the entire industry to solve the pressing environmental and social issues of our time. As a firm, we are committed to the 2030 Challenge, the US Architects Declare, and are signatories of the AIA Materials Pledge. In 2021, we signed the 1.5°C COP26 Communique to further call on the industry and our colleagues to join us in reducing our carbon footprint, and in 2022, we updated our JUST 2.0 label to best evaluate our social justice and equity practices.
Landscape Architecture
Founded in 2012, BENCH Site Design Inc. is a 10-person design consultancy located in Kelowna, BC. We specialize in the practice of contemporary landscape architecture across a spectrum of site types and scales, in both rural and urban contexts. We strive to create places that appeal to the senses, improve with time and use, foster ecological literacy, and connect users with the landscapes they inhabit. We also deeply value the relationships we build along the way – with clients, consultants, community partners, builders, and users. We embrace the idea that collaboration brings about the best solutions, and believe that our projects are improved when they are evaluated from diverse perspectives. No one individual is responsible for authoring the design of any of our works; they are instead the result of collaborative effort, critique and dialogue.
Connect Landscape Architecture is a recognized leader in the design and transformation of healthy vibrant communities. Our specialty is in the planning, design, and delivery of public and civic gathering spaces, places to work and socialize, to live, to rejuvenate and connect with. Our vision is simple – Connect people to nature through meaningful design. We pride ourselves on creating inspiring places and experiences for people. Our values are at the core of everything we do, our strength is in our people, and our 30 years of diverse and award-winning success is driven by the love and passion for our craft.
Hapa Collaborative is a nationally recognized landscape architecture and urban design practice, deeply committed to the creation of connected and livable communities. We hearten the attachment between people and their environment by revitalizing forgotten spaces into ones buzzing with social energy, transforming them into dynamic and intricate parts of a larger, connected whole. This is the alchemy of what we do. With a team of 18 staff across studios in Vancouver and Victoria, we have worked within the full breadth of scales, from master plans to pocket parks, civic spaces to private residences, and streetscapes to green roofs. We love exploring new materials, building lasting relationships, and ultimately creating cherished spaces. The insights we have gained by working closely with the public have created our foundation for an excellent design team: strong leadership and design fundamentals, engaging presentation skills, experienced technical knowledge, and a keen ear.
PFS Studio is a leading planning, urban design, and landscape architecture firm based in Vancouver, BC. Their international practice undertakes projects both for the public and private sectors throughout Canada, the United States, Europe, Southeast Asia and China. Over the past 30 years, the firm has received numerous awards, including more CSLA awards in the history of the Society than any other firm in Canada. This is a testament to the firm’s commitment to exemplary planning and design, demonstrating its ability to create iconic, memorable and engaging public spaces.
LEES is an award-winning firm offering comprehensive services in landscape design, planning, research, and policy development. We specialize in serving the needs of the public sector in communities large and small across Canada, providing services from our offices in Vancouver, Whitehorse, and Guelph. Our primary areas of practice include cemeteries, memorials, parks, outdoor recreation, and trails. We span a full range of project types from research and planning through to built works in these sectors.
Making places, engaging people, inspired by nature
We are a team of landscape architects, urban designers, and site planners.
Since 1976, PWL Partnership has transformed built and natural environments into vibrant and memorable destinations in ways that honour the cultural, historical and environmental attributes of a place.
Each PWL project is infused with research and rooted in context resulting in thoughtful, site-responsive places. We believe even the boldest landscape architectural statement needs to be practical in function, so we begin every project by considering its anticipated users and then create spaces that will be enriched by future generations. Our goal is to have every landscape be truly regenerative, to give more than it takes.
For us, every project is an opportunity to tell a story stamped with history, firmly rooted in the present, and pointing towards a long, sustainable future. That’s why every project we create is unique.
In our nearly 50 years, we were behind some of the most significant developments in Metro Vancouver‚ from False Creek to Coal Harbour. We contributed a full range of services from site planning to community engagement, visual details to building positioning. Now, as we grow, we are putting our stamp on placemaking projects across North America, creating opportunities for dense populations and nature to thrive together.
Urban Systems is an employee-owned and award-winning inter-disciplinary practice serving local and senior governments, Indigenous communities, and private sector clients throughout Western Canada. We work in collaboration with our water resources, transportation, planning, land economics, and civil engineering practices. We have a thriving landscape architecture team across British Columbia, Alberta and Manitoba. Our core practice areas include parks, recreation, trails planning, public spaces and urban design, cemetery planning and design, and urban forest strategies.
VDZ+A Consulting Inc. is a full-service multi-disciplinary consulting firm specializing in landscape architecture, civil engineering, and urban forestry. Established in 1999, we bring over 25 years of experience delivering award-winning, innovative, and community-focused designs for public and private sector projects across British Columbia, including the Lower Mainland and Okanagan, as well as throughout Western Canada and select states in the US.