PARTISANS

PARTISANS is a Toronto architecture studio co-founded in 2012 by Alex Josephson, built around the integration of design and technology, invention and programming, culture and creative services. Its team mixes architects, researchers, storytellers and builders in a research-focused practice that treats architecture as a way of seeing and making, aiming at high-performance design that makes the impossible probable.

That ambition shows in work across housing, hospitality, retail and culture: Bar Raval, Grotto Sauna, Fold House, Canvas House, the Expo 2020 Canada Pavilion in Dubai, Union Station retail and 145 Wellington. Josephson, the only Canadian to hold the Van Alen Institute’s New York Prize, was named Best Emerging Designer by Canada’s Design Exchange in 2015.