Practice
Our primary objective is to translate our clients’ desires and needs in to innovative, sustainable and delightful building solutions. Our philosophy is based on a successful collaboration with our clients and a highly integrated team of consultants from project initiation to post occupancy.
Who We Are
Lang Wilson Practice in Architecture Culture (LWPAC) is a multidisciplinary design firm that has operated at the intersection of architecture and culture since 1999. We bring both broad local and strong international experience to the task. LWPAC is a very accomplished and experienced full service design firm, licensed to practice architecture in British Columbia, New York and Germany. We have practiced and taught architecture in Berlin, New York, Barcelona, Valparaiso, Beijing and Vancouver. Following a 12 year career that has been equally split between university and practice around the world we bring an unusually broad perspective of knowledge and international exposure to each project. Since early 2008, we focus exclusively on full time practice. LWPAC was established in Vancouver in 1999.
The firm is the winner of the 2008 Governor General’s Medal in Architecture for the ROAR_one housing project. We have also won both Lieutenant Governor’s Medal and Innovation Awards and the Home of the Year Award from New York’s Architecture Magazine. LWPAC has executed award winning institutional and residential projects both nationally and internationally.
LWPAC specializes in outstanding architectural design. We deliver innovative and holistic design and building solutions to any project and have created a broad range of projects ranging from single family homes, to housing, art installation and public projects to large scale urban planning. Our work has been exhibited and published around the world.
Innovation
We have a proven record to be innovative across all aspects of our work. We deliver high quality projects that have found admiration and proven relevance both within the general public and the profession, as in the world academia and critical review. It is our distinguishing capacity that we can take complex, unique and conflicting project parameters and synthesize, integrate and distill them into simple, surprising, innovative, buildable, budget conscious solutions that are full of discoveries and delight. Our projects are highly flexible to remain relevant over time, as they are relevant in their setting. They are of importance to their respective communities and are as sustainable as we can possibly make them. It is for the ambition and accomplishment of our work that we have consistently won architectures highest recognitions throughout the first decade of our practice. There are indeed few firms that approach the making buildings as holistically and integrated as owe do. We care deeply about the arts, as we are in love with science and intrigued by the possibilities of economics. It is our first priority to deliver buildings that are ‘state of the art’ sustainable.