SPEAKER EVENT: John Patkau

Join us on September 23 for an exclusive speaker event with John Patkau—renowned architect behind the Audain Art Museum in Whistler, the Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver, and the new School of Biomedical Engineering at UBC Vancouver.

In 2010, after three decades of conventional material practice, Patkau Architects launched a formal research program titled Material Operations. This initiative explored how everyday construction materials, when paired with modest yet unconventional methods, could generate expressive, evocative forms with inherent structural strength. Since the publication of Patkau Architects: Material Operations in 2017, the firm has sought opportunities to apply these investigations in their work.

Maneuvers and Manipulations, the application of this research, will be the focus of this talk.

About Patkau Architects
Founded by John and Patricia Patkau, Vancouver-based Patkau Architects is one of Canada’s most celebrated architecture firms.

Doors open at 5 pm; the talk begins at 6 pm.