Ridge House is a modernist single-family three-storey home situated in Portland?s Alameda Ridge neighbourhood on a site with dramatic views of the city?s southwest hills and striking skyline. Photo by Ema Peter
Vancouver-based Leckie Studio is a 20-person practice founded by architect Michael Leckie in 2015. The studio operates across a range of scales and typologies, including architecture, interiors, product design and environmental design.
During his architectural internship, Michael Leckie worked at firms including Patkau Architects in Vancouver and Atelier 66 in Athens, Greece, developing an appreciation for modern regionalist practices in different parts of the world. Leckie Studio?s work is primarily located in the Cascadia Region (also known as the Pacific Northwest), with completed projects in Canada, the United States and Mexico. In the midst of global mediatization, the studio writes that it ?strives to continually reassess the notion of modernism, meaning and truth.? In architectural terms, it uses an approach informed by critical regionalism, creating places grounded in both site and context.
Designed to be self-assembled, The Backcountry Hut Company?s System 00 is a DIY cabin kit based on the classic A-frame. ?Photo by Kyle Chappell
The studio?s designers believe that architecture has the potential to transform mundane realities in positive and meaningful ways. This is evident in a start-up venture co-founded by Michael Leckie, The Backcountry Hut Company. Th...