Are you looking for a summer co-op position? Or a permanent position come May? Or maybe you just want to know more about the local professional community? This will be an opportunity for you to meet with firms to talk about the work they do and the employment opportunities they have. 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.
BOP is a full service architectural practice with experience in numerous typologies and at all stages of the project. Our firm is built on a history of great projects spanning 30 years across North America. Our team has designed and built numerous projects with a broad range of clients. From large-scale master plans, to more intimate community based projects and from project conception to opening day we have done it all. Our work is based on a belief in the connectivity of buildings to their surroundings; that structures support the life of the street, and that a vibrant public realm creates better living environments.
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, and Toronto. 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.
We are 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 centers 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 Vancouver-based full-service firm of over 80 talented architects, interior designers, planners and landscape architects.
Over the past 35 years, we have had the privilege of collaborating with our clients to create a portfolio of award-winning institutional, recreational and infrastructure projects of all sizes.
We operate as a team, working with integrity and with a strong focus on quality. When facing challenges, we thrive by innovating: We listen at depth to translate and actualize the project vision into an effective, elegant and enduring form. Above all, we develop lasting relationships with our clients and with the community. As a result, the firm’s creations address both the tangible and intangible needs of the end users and clients, promote overall well-being, and foster healthy, resilient and livable cities that enrich people’s lives.
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.
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.
Using the power of design to create a better world. We are a team of 250+ architects, designers, and planners. We champion people and apply design solutions that improve lives and create a deeper connection between people and place. With an insatiable curiosity for the world, we leverage our in-between thinking to make the invisible visible. We operate globally from our offices across Canada and partner with our clients who are visionaries, passionate and courageous ― together we achieve results that make a difference to entire communities. At the heart of what we do are our people. If you enjoy collaborating in a vibrant and inspiring workplace and are looking for the next step in your career, we’d love to hear from you. For more visit, https://kasian.com/careers/
KMBR Architects Planners Inc. is a Vancouver-based, award-winning firm specializing in architecture, planning, and interior design. For over 60 years, we have designed educational, public safety, community, and institutional spaces that foster learning, connection, and growth. The environments where we work and learn shape our experiences, influencing creativity, collaboration, and opportunity. At KMBR, we are committed to designing spaces that enhance the human experience and empower people.
M Moser Associates is a woman-owned, global architecture, design, strategy and delivery firm with more than 1,300+ professionals networked across Asia, India, Europe, and the Americas. Since 1981, we have helped transform organizations large and small as they have expanded locally and globally, providing solutions that meet the unique needs of their business and their people. In short, we design and build beautiful offices and buildings centred around the human experience with clients including Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, PayPal and beyond.
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 2,400 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 Butterfly, an award-winning reimagination of the tower typology in downtown Vancouver; the PNE Amphitheatre, a precedent-setting venue in the heart of historic Hastings Park; Confederation Park Community Centre, which will provide Burnaby with a destination community hub; and Sen̓áḵw, an Indigenous-led, 11-tower mixed-use community development on the False Creek waterfront.
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.
PMG Landscape Architects Ltd. is an award-winning team of fun-loving designers and space makers. Together, we have made significant contributions to the urban fabric of the cities in which we live, work and play throughout British Columbia and beyond. We believe that great design makes the world a more wonderful place and we are committed to using our extensive expertise to doing just that.
With a strong background in design and construction, we have created functional, sustainable, thoughtful, and enduring landscapes at all scales. Our portfolio boasts thousands of park, residential, institutional, commercial, and urban planning and design projects in every local jurisdiction. We strive to create tangible, meaningful connections between people and the places they inhabit. Wherever possible, we aim to reveal the site and the processes active on it. By making them more visible, aesthetics are intrinsically tied to functionality, strengthening our understanding of and connection to the land and ultimately our awareness of how we are a part of and not separate from the landscape and ecosystem as a whole. Looking ahead, we see a bright future where fresh minds embrace the resilient and sustainable landscapes to come.
PWL Partnership
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.
Since 2001, space2place has been transforming overlooked spaces into vibrant places that connect people with nature, culture, and community. Our Vancouver-based studio is made up of a team of ten landscape architects, ecologists, designers, educators, and communicators, and we are driven by a shared commitment: to craft resilient, future-forward environments where both people and nature flourish.
We believe in design solutions that are both flexible and enduring, from ecological integration to inclusive programming. Our projects exemplify how a commitment to ecological integrity enhances community enjoyment.
Operating since 2001, space2place has developed particular expertise in complex and larger-scale public space and infrastructure development projects. While it has grown in size over the past twenty years, the company has maintained a tight focus on unique, high-quality public projects within the realm of both built and natural environments. As demonstrated by its impressive portfolio, its proficiency extends from master planning and the development of strategic guidelines and design concepts to public engagement, urban design, revitalization and habitat restoration.
van der Zalm + associates is a full-service landscape architecture, civil engineering, and urban forestry firm with two decades of experience producing award-winning designs for public and private sector projects throughout the Lower Mainland, across Canada, and in select states of the USA. Our dedicated and collaborative team delivers creative and effective solutions to provide outstanding design with a professional consulting experience.