JASON KING ARCHITECTS

Jason King Architects

Jason King Architects is an architecture firm based in Vancouver B.C. and the Okanagan. We specialize in the design of custom residential, hospitality, retail and other commercial projects. Founded in 1997, we are a full service architecture practice with international experience; we have designed projects in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

Biography: Jason King, Director

Jason King is a multi-disciplinary designer who has practiced architecture internationally. His professional experience covers a varied number of design fields which include: architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, experience and exhibition design, interior design and industrial design. King was among ten young firms selected for Architectural Record’s first “Vanguard” issue in 2000 and his work has been featured in AMC, Frame, World Architecture, Azure, Architectural Record, L’Arca, I.D. Magazine, and in the book “-40 The New Generation in International Architecture” which shows the work of the fifty finalists of the Borromini Prize for Architecture. Jason King’s work has been exhibited in various venues including the Workscene Gallery in Toronto, the Van Allen Institute in New York, and the International Union of Architects XXII World Congress. He has received numerous awards for his design work in architecture including: an AIA Honor Award, the Canada Council Arts Grant in Architecture, I.D. Magazine’s Design Distinction Award and the Canada Council’s most prestigious award in architecture, the Prix de Rome for 2000.

King earned a Bachelor of Architecture (Honours) degree from the University of Toronto in 1991 and a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University in 1996. Jason King has taught architectural design at the University of British Columbia, Harvard University’s GSD Summer Program, the Boston Architectural Center, the University of Texas (Austin), Art Center College of Design, the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Parsons School of Design and the University of Kentucky where he was the Sue Fan Gooding Visiting Professor for 1998. He has most recently been teaching as an Adjunct Professor at Pratt Institute School of Architecture and Barnard College and Columbia University in New York, and as a Unit Master at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London.

King has lectured widely on contemporary issues in architecture at various venues including: the University of Kentucky, the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urbanism, the University of Texas, the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-ARC) and the University GD Annunzio in Pescara, Italy.

King established the firm JASON KING ARCHITECTS in 1997, and has specialized in the design of many innovative projects that forefront issues of education and community building. These innovative environments have been commissioned and built for companies such as IBM, Sony and Virgin.