Team
We work with our clients as one team, and we hope to have you fully involved. Your ideas, insights and feedback are invaluable. We are experts in facilitating collaborative processes with multiple stakeholders, be that in planning process or in obtaining permits for complex projects that require community workshops and consultation.
We manage strong teams and provide for an engaging and participatory platform for design development and construction. We have worked with many of our consultants for 3 to 10 years on previous projects and have developed a very strong mutual professional respect and understanding of each others working methodology.
Oliver Lang
Principal and Creative Director LWPAC, President Intelligent City
MSAAD, DIPL.ING.ARCH, MAIBC, RA-NY, AK-NW
Oliver Lang is a leading architect and award winning designer, recognized throughout North-America for his cutting edge contemporary designs. He is the creative force driving LWPAC Lang Wilson Practice in Architecture Culture, providing trendsetting holistic architectural design services to clients around the world.
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Oliver is a graduate of Columbia University’s Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design program, one of the world’s most recognized think tank programs:
- He has also earned a professional architecture degree from Berlin’s University of Technology, with 2 years of studies abroad at the Escuela Superior de Arquitectura in Barcelona.
- Prior to launching LWPAC he has been under the mentorship of world renowned architects Enric Miralles, Peter Eisenman, Greg Lynn and Henry Smith Miller in Barcelona and New York City. He was the chief design architect for the $ 30,000,000 Corning Glass Center.
- While always in practice since graduation in 1993, Oliver has served consistently, for more than 15 years, on the faculties of some of the very best architecture schools including, Princeton, Columbia, UPenn, SCIARC, The Berlage, Santa Maria U and UBC. He has mentored over 600 design projects.
- He has been lecturing around the world, and the work of LWPAC has been published and exhibited broadly, including a solo exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery. A monograph, produced with a major production grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, is forthcoming in 2011.
- In 2008 he founded Intelligent City, an ‘urban productions’ company committed to deliver truly high end and holistic design to a broader audience.
- Oliver has been appointed by the City of Vancouver and its Director of Planning to the Urban Design Panel in 2009.
Cynthia Wilson
Partner
Cynthia Wilson holds a professional architecture degree from the University of British Columbia and a Bachelor degree in the Arts. Cynthia has worked on many international interior renovation projects such as the house of representatives in Berlin, the Gran Almacen in Barcelona. Before starting LWPAC she also worked for Anabell Selldorf interior design in New York.
Don Chan
Don Chan holds a Masters degree in Architecture from UBC. He has worked from 2002-2005 for LWPAC. For 4 years he worked for James Cheng Architects at the Fairmont tower project in Vancouver. We are delighted that Don rejoined LWPAC in 2009.
LWPAC currently has six team members.