Keynote Biographies - Patricia Patkau

Patricia Patkau graduated from the University of Manitoba with a Bachelor of Interior Design degree in 1974 and from Yale University with a Master’s in Architecture in 1978. In 1978 she founded Patkau Architects with John Patkau. Patkau Architects has received significant national and international design awards for a wide variety of building types including the Bibliothèque nationale du Québec and the Winnipeg Centennial Library. Patricia Patkau is a Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of British Columbia where she has taught since the 1980s. She is a Fellow of the Royal Architecture Institute of Canada, an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and the Royal Institute of British Architects, a member of the Royal Academy of Art, and a Member of the Order of Canada. In addition to practice, she has taught, lectured and been a guest critic at numerous universities in Canada, the United States, and Europe. In 1995, John and Patricia Patkau were jointly Eliot Noyes Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.