The RAIC is honored to announce that Leckie Studio Architecture + Design, a Vancouver-based firm, is the recipient of the Emerging Architectural Practice Award for 2021.
The RAIC Emerging Architectural Practice Award was established to recognize an emerging architectural practice that has consistently produced distinguished architecture.
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The award recognizes the achievements of the practice for the quality of their built work, service to their clients, innovations in practice, and public recognition. Eligible firms need to be practicing and licensed in Canada, and they can be no more than 10-years-old. This is to celebrate exciting new voices entering the architectural landscape of Canada.
Founded in 2015, Leckie Studio is a 20-person practice based in Vancouver, led by Principal Architect and founder Michael Leckie. Arts Student Centre
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The studio is understood as a vehicle for creative speculation ? expanding the boundaries of traditional architecture practice through research, client commissions, and self-initiated projects that combine practice with creative entrepreneurship.
Rooted in a rigorous architectural methodology, the work of Leckie Studio spans a range of scales and typology ? including buildings, installations, product design, and environmental design. The studio?s current portfolio is intentionally diversified in both typology and scale across Canada, the United States, and Mexico...