AK A_ABOUT — ANDREW KING

PRINCIPAL AK A/FLDWRK

PROFESSOR OF PRACTICE MCGILL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

PROFESSOR OF PRACTICE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

PROGRESSIVE ARCHITECTURE AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE (2 x 2012)

CANADIAN ARCHITECT AWARD OF EXCELLENCE 2000 2010 2017 2020

Andrew King is recognized nationally and internationally as a leader in design excellence, applied design research, teaching and cultural discourse. King’s work has been consistently published in international art and architecture journals and recognized with international design awards. He was selected one of Canada’s “design leaders” by the Globe and Mail in 2003 and has received four Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence. In 2012 he had the unprecedented honour of being awarded two American Institute of Architecture Progressive Architecture (P/A) Awards of Excellence in the same year for projects of very divergent scales and briefs. In 2017 he was elected to the College of Fellows of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, and in 2003, the Canada Council for the Arts Prix de Rome Laureate.

King currently leads AKA/FLDWRK. AKA/FLDWRK is transdisciplinary, design research practice with partners and collaborators across Canada and abroad, as well as academic and institutional partnerships in design, architecture, business and health care. In 2018, his trans-disciplinary team, including artist Angela Silver, was award first place in the international design competition for Place de Montrealaises (PDM), to be completed in 2024. PDM has subsequently received 2020 Awards of Excellence from Canadian architect as well as a WAN award, world architecture prize and the grand prix du design. His Oratoire St. Joseph Carillon was awarded a 2017 Canadian Architect Award of Excellence and a 2018 AZ Award.

King currently holds a three year appointment as Professor in Practice at the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture at McGill University and a Professor of Practice appointment at the University of Calgary’s School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape. He has been continuously involved in teaching design studio at various levels since 1988, and has contributed to studios in Ottawa, Montreal, Calgary, Banff, London (UK), Berlin, Copenhagen and Rome. This includes all levels of architectural studio development and delivery from first year undergraduate to senior graduate studios, including interdisciplinary, integrated, comprehensive and speculative initiatives, and thesis supervision. King has held two of Canada’s most prestigious academic design chairs. As the Gerald Sheff Visiting Professor in 2012 at McGill University’s School of Architecture King developed contingent architectures delivering a senior undergraduate studio on exploring critical art and cinema methodologies, and a senior graduate studios that dealt with the body and health in a context of physical and ideological crisis. The studios were heavily informed by his speculative and large practice research. His critical practice lecture series Gerald Sheff Lecture and exhibition focused on the interdisciplinary nature of his work, curating drawings, models and film through a constructed installation that re-aligned the gallery space. At McGill, he participated in the schools 2012 accreditation review. As the Azrieli Visiting Critic (2009-10) at Carleton University’s Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, King focused graduate studio delivery around one tectonic based studio, looking at material culture and a speculative studio exploring methodologies. His Azrieli Visiting critics Symposium invited critics, curators, practice leaders and academics to discuss the tensions between practice and research.

In 2008, King was appointed firm wide design leader and Design Principal for Canada at Cannon Design. He was a member of the firms Board of Directors and Design Practice Committee, and led the firms re-branding initiative. He led teams in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal on projects across Canada and in Asia, including the two billion dollar CHUM super-hospital in Montreal. His Capilano University Film School was awarded a 2010 Canadian Architect Magazine Award of Excellence and his Wilfred Laurier University Sports Centre received a 2012 AIA P/A Award of Excellence. His York University Student Centre was awarded a 2018 Best in Canada Prize.

Since 1990, King has led his own interdisciplinary design and research initiative, AK A, making architecture, industrial design, graphic design, installation, publications and urban policy consulting, often using critical design methodologies to create strategies for communities and cities. AK A operates simultaneously as an interdisciplinary design practice and as an experimental research platform that implicates design studio teaching directly in its work. By blurring boundaries between studio practice and studio teaching, student experience is often implicitly engaged in issues of design practice. AK A regularly collaborates with multidisciplinary teams in academia, urban policy-making, art production institutions and industry creating an informed approach to integrated design. This work been recognized through awards and publications, including a Canadian Architect Award of Excellence and a 2012 AIA P/A Award of Excellence for the Hawk House. AK A has been supported by various schools, funding bodies, galleries, curators and research initiatives. For the last five years AK A has been a research laboratory focused on small, critically resonant architecture, interdisciplinary design and dissemination projects across Canada, and in 2019 it converged with the lemayLAB to form FLDWRK.

Andrew King studied engineering and theatre (Acadia University), and worked as a professional actor before studying architecture (Dalhousie University). King’s first decade of practice was spent primarily in Europe, working in London, Seville, Budapest and Berlin, where he lived for eight years. He spent a formative mentorship in the office of Zaha Hadid in London.

In 2003, King was the Canada Council for the Arts Prix de Rome Laureate, spending a year using the historic and contemporary gates of Rome to examine the relationship between exile and identity. The resulting project, ROMALUX, is a speculation on architectural, curatorial and cinematic space, which has subsequently been exhibited across Canada and abroad. This is a stream of research that began with his thesis project in 1990, was supported by a Canada Council for the Arts Production Grant in 1993 and has informed speculative projects, exhibitions, lectures, essays and studio delivery. Through this work, King has a nuanced understanding of architectures role in post-war Rome and Berlin, particularly through the lens of industrial design, contemporary art and neo-realist cinema. The Rome research has evolved into a recognized critical art practice (with partner Angela Silver), commissioned to make in-situ and gallery-based installations across Canada and abroad. Commissions include lens for the Banff Centre for the Arts for inclusion in the 2005 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art and ex-urbus for Black Dog Press’ Informal Architecture by Anthony Keindl.

From 1997 to 2007 he was continuously involved with the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Architecture and Faculty of Fine Arts, with appointments as Professional Associate Professor and an interdisciplinary appointments between Fine Art, Theatre and Architecture. This has included active participation in two accreditation reviews.

From 2005 to 2010 King developed an interdisciplinary research initiative with the Banff Centre for the Arts, forming and delivering several residencies as participant, instructor and peer review. This work brought together architects, artists, filmmakers, musicians and others in a context for production of work through the exploration of critical methodologies.

In 2012 at the University of British Columbia King co-delivered a practice-based studio with Prof. Chris Macdonald, where UBC students worked in tandem with his Vancouver design studio on a parallel project, sharing research and development. Reviews occurred in the school and practice studio environment, across digital communication platforms and on site.

King has contributed at Dalhousie University (FreeLab 2005), the American Academy in London, the Architectural Association in London, and the Hochschule der Kunst in Berlin and in January 2004 he was appointed Visiting Professor at the Royal Academy of Art, School of Architecture in Copenhagen, creating and implementing a ten day charrette at Institute 3, Architecture and Speed.

In 2003-04 King contributed to the various Rome programs held during the 2003-2004 academic year: participating in mid-term and final reviews at several programs as invited critic, including Cornell, Pratt Institute, Temple University, RISD and Waterloo.

As a consultant, writer and critic King has contributed to cultural development through several critical journals, writing about contemporary art, projects and architectural curation. He visited the Sao Paolo Biennialle in 2005 for DFAIT and the Canada Council, creating a report on Canada’s potential involvement with the exhibition. He has written critical essays for projects such as 20+, artcity and informal architectures and has reviewed significant international exhibitions for journals, including the Venice Biennalle and the Sao Paolo Biennalle He is a co-editor of and contributor to the University of Calgary Press’ building/art (2004), and his work was featured in and on the cover of Coach House Books The Prix de Rome: A Critical Perspective by Marco Polo.

King has lectured widely on his work, various research streams and on contemporary practice. Venues include the Tate Gallery in London, the Iceland School of Art and Design, the Spertus Institute in Chicago, Ohio State University, Maison de Architecture in Montreal, the University of Lethbridge, Carleton University, La Sapienza University in Rome, New York University in Florence, the Royal Academy in Copenhagen, the Design Exchange in Toronto, the Confederation Arts Centre in Charlottetown, the Stride Gallery in Calgary and the Walter Philips Gallery in Banff. He speak continually at RAIC, OAA and Banff Centre conferences, WRLDCTY and DEZEEN talks, and recently gave the keynote lectures for ATMOSPHERE 15 at the University of Manitoba and the Doctor of Design Symposium at the University of Calgary

ANDREW KING FRAIC PRIX DE ROME CURRICULUM VITAE

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT

2021-24 professor of practice peter fu school of architecture mcgill university

2022-25 professor of practice school of architecture/planning/landscape university of calgary

2016-19 adjunct professor mcgill university montreal

2012 gerald sheff visiting chairmcgill university montreal

2009-10 azrieli visiting critic graduate studios/symposium carleton university

2008/17 studio instructor U1/U2/U3 graduate studio mcgill university

2008/09 studio instructor second/fourth year studio carleton university

2007-11 creator/faculty architecture lab banff centre for the arts

2008 visiting scholar in creative practice fine art mount allison university

2008 visiting studio instructor fourth year studio carleton university

2007-11 creator/faculty architecture lab banff centre for the arts

2008 visiting scholar in creative practice fine art mount allison university

2008 visiting studio instructor fourth year studio carleton university

2005-07 inter-disciplinary appointment fine art/architecture university of calgary

2006 visiting studio instructor studio/DSA/Banff carleton university

2003 visiting professor danish royal academy copenhagen

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENT

2019- principal/founder AKA/FLDWRK montreal/toronto/calgary

2015-23 CDO/design principal lemay/lemayLAB/FLDWRK montreal/toronto

2008-15 CDO/design principal cannondesign global

1990- principal/founder AKA/andrewking calgary/montreal/toronto

EDUCATION

technical university of nova scotia (dalhousie university)

1990 masters of architecture 1988 bachelor of environmental design

acadia university wolfville nova scotia

1984 third year bachelor of arts (theatre arts) 1983 diploma in civil engineering

research: banff centre for the arts

2005 new works residency for the alberta biennal 2004 informal architectures

DESIGN AWARDS + HONOURS

2022 award of excellence WAN FLDWRK/lemay

2022 award of excellence CTBUH lemay

2021 world architecture prize FLDWRK/lemay

2021 best unbuilt AZ award FLDWRK/lemay

2020 award of excellence canadian architect FLDWRK/lemay

2021 world architecture prize FLDWRK/lemay

2018 Place de Montrealaises International competition FLDWRK/lemay

2018 Azure Best in Canada YUNSC cannondesign

2018 AZ awards best of and peoples choice lemayLAB

2017 award of excellence canadian architect lemayLAB

2017 American Architecture Prize CHUM cannondesign

2017 College of Fellows RAIC andrew king

2016 architizer A+ award CHUM cannondesign

2016 A’ design award CHUM cannondesign

2015 ottawa urban design award lansdowne stadium cannondesign

2012 progressive architecture award wilfred laurier sports centre cannon design

2012 progressive architecture award hawk house andrew king

2010 award of excellence canadian architect cannon design

2005 new works residency banff centre for the arts alberta biennial of art

2003/04 prix de rome in architecture canada council for the arts roma lux

2004 research/creation grant sshrc/co-applicant informal architecture

2003 sheddon design award city of calgary oliver house

2004 excellence in achievement university of calgary

2003 creation grant for architecture canada council for the arts modernow

2002 publishing grant architecture canada council for the arts building/art

2000 award of excellence canadian architect magazine AK A

1993 project grant for architecture canada council for the arts absurdity: form/politic 2

1990 architecture thesis prize dalhousie university form/politic 1

1989 dorothy and bruce rosetti scholarship for architecture dalhousie university

EXHIBITIONS/INSTALLATIONS

2016 Paysage MAQ montreal

2014 KING a architecture exhibition ryerson university

2013 dessins/dessins MAQ montreal

2012 KING a architecture exhibition mcgill university

2011 cinema pacific design center los angeles

2011 AK A/plans sequence MAQ montreal

2010 no longer exit 5 kenderline gallery university of saskatchewan

2010 motelization forman art gallery bishops university

2009 lost highway CHARTS digital

2009 !:26 the model emily carr gallery vancouver

2009 !:26 the model design exchange toronto

2009 !:26 the model MAQ montreal

2008 imaginecity owens art gallery sackville, nb

2007 prix de rome monopoli montreal

2007 hit or miss contemporary drawings triangle calgary

2006 prix de rome ballenfords toronto

2005 peripheral confederation centre gallery charlottetown

2005 romalux YYZ toronto

2005 romalux architecture gallery university of manitoba

2005 alberta biennial for contemporary art

selected participant walter phillips gallery, banff art gallery of alberta, edmonton

2005 faculty show contributor and curator universityof calgary design gallery

2004 romalux stride gallery calgary

2004 roma lux int. 5 gallery rome

2004 termini pratt institute gallery rome

2003 aka recent works walter phillips gallery banff centre for the arts

2003 thread aka/angela silver university of calgary design gallery

2002 imaginary architecture m.a.d.e. gallery edmonton

2002 scrim installation artcity art and design festival calgary

2001 building/art design and curation institute for contemporary art calgary

2001 five conditions berlin 1991-96 installation university of calgary design gallery

2000 aka 5 projects : andrewkingstudio evds design gallery

2000 competition awards exhibition raic conference ottawa

1999 aka architecture faculty show evds design gallery

1999 2mthsbudapest evds design gallery

1994 form/politic 2 silberstein gallery berlin

1991 wilful constructs 5 projects : a king m arch t.u.n.s. exhibition gallery

PUBLICATIONS / PROJECTS FEATURED IN JOURNALS

2020 canadian architect PDM, award toronto january

2017 azure magazine 61 bells, award toronto august

2017 canadian architect CHUM toronto july

2017 canadian architect 61 bells, award toronto january

2017 interiors CHUM passerelle toronto july

2013 canadian architect cap u film school feature toronto august

2012 AIA architect award of excellence (hawk) new york february

2012 AIA architect award of excellence (WLU) new york february

2010 canadian architect award of excellence feature toronto december

2009 canadian architect tros/keefe house toronto september

2009 building 22 tros/keefe house ottawa october

2008 canadian architect golden design masterplan toronto july

2008 onsite review romalux images calgary february

2007 elemente AKA/andrewkingstudio calgary october

2006 avenue magazine andrew king profile calgary may

2006 canadian interiors romalux toronto february

2006 canadian art scrim (cover and feature) toronto january

2005 canadian architect kensington clinic toronto june

2004 enroute magazine house 2054 toronto april

2003 canadian architect scrim toronto july

2003 onsite review 8 thread calgary

2002 canadian architect ez/ thread awards issue toronto december

2002 onsite review 7 ez house feature and interview calgary

2002 canadian architect building/art exhibition toronto november

2001 avenue magazine tros/ keefe house calgary february

2000 canadian architect tros/keefe award of excellence toronto december

2000 canadian architect armature toronto

2000 in situ 2 armature calgary

1999 avenue magazine ccpa design masterplan calgary december

1989 utopica 3 extreme lives milan

PUBLICATIONS / BOOKS

2024 itinerant practice andrew king, lev bratishenko, nicolay boyadiev, tba

2020 canadian architecture leslie jen figure.1 press

2008 informal architecture contributor anthony kiendl black dog press

2006 prix de rome: a critical perspective contributor coach house books

2004 building/art co-editor/contributor/essayist university of calgary press

PUBLICATIONS / CRITICAL ESSAYS BY ANDREW KING

2010 canadian architect award of excellence review toronto december

2009 canadian architect penelope stewart toronto january

2008 little utopias venessa perunovich toronto may

2008 20+ catalogue essay toronto january

2006 canadian architect rothney review toronto november

2006 canadian architect esplanade review toronto september

2005 canadian architect sao paolo bienalle review toronto november

2004 canadian architect venice bienalle review toronto november

2004 Ai modernow toronto may

2003 globe and mail design icons toronto july

2001 onsite review 6 beauty lost photos by a silver calgary

2001 onsite review 4 budapest and ideology calgary

PUBLICATIONS / LECTURES AND SYMPOSIA

2023 climate haven(s) RAIC festival calgary

2023 AKAmanifesto ATMOSPHERE 15 keynote university of manitoba winnipeg

2022 humaniti CTBUH chicago

2022 PDM WRLDCTY new york

2022 AKA//FLDWRK doctor of design symposium keynote calgary

2022 radical inclusion PDM RAIC festival online

2022 sensory spaces RAIC festival online

2021 future of cities WRLDCTY online

2019 inclusion PDM design TO toronto

2019 POP/CAN/CRIT design exchange toronto

2019 vertical Cities conference Singapore

2019 the city at night WRLDCTY online

2019 design for justice WRLDCTY online

2019 business/health EXECMBA rothman school of business toronto

2019 IDS Professional lecture toronto

2018 POP/CAN/CRIT symposium vancouver

2018 OAA conference york university NSC toronto

2017 World Design Summit conference montreal

2017 OAA/RAIC conference design research toronto

2017 CCHF conference design and health ottawa

2016 AAA banff sessions trans architecture banff alberta

2015 CCPPP conference design excellence in P3 toronto

2015 APPA conference design/landscape chicago, illinois

2015 design DIG public lecture buffalo new york

2014 AKA/new works public lecture iceland school of art and design

2014 AKA/new works public lecture ryerson university

2013 hospital city UIA/PHG international healthcare forum IIDEX toronto

2012 trans-architecture critical practice lecture series mcgill university

2011 design/PPP RAIC conference vancouver

2011 scripted skin facades conference new york city

2009 radical pragmatism: new modes of practice metro convention centre toronto

2009 process/project spertus institute chicago

2009 5 modes of practice/AKA trans architecture carleton university

2009 stars in their eyes trans architecture carleton university

2008 berlin/rome stable instability carleton university ottawa

2008 constructed landscapes fine art/geography mount allison university

2008 AKA/new works public lecture mount allison university

2007 AKA/new works review lecture mcgill university

2007 cinecitta art/design university of lethbridge

2007 post war berlin university of calgary, EVDS

2005 romalux SSAC conference confederation centre charlottetown

2006 post war berlin university of calgary, EVDS

2005 AKA/newworks public lecture confederation centre charlottetown

2005 romalux art/design university of lethbridge

2005 artist talk new works public lecture banff

2004 romalux stride gallery public lecture calgary

2004 artist talk informal architectures symposium banff

2004 aka work lecture carleton university ottawa

2004 artcity artalk series currency invited speaker calgary

2004 aka / romalux architecture and curation tate britain, london

2004 informal architecture public lecture la sapienza university rome

2004 building/art melbookstore public lecture rome

2004 aka work lecture public lecture royal academy of art copenhagen

2003 architecture and speed futurism lecture new york university florence

2003 aka / roma lux public lecture design exchange toronto

2003 aka recent works public lecture walter phillips gallery

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE / COURSES DELIVERED

mcgill university school of architecture

2022-26 final project two term studio

2020-22 studio U3, U1, M2

2013-18 studio U2, U3, DST critic

2012-14 sheff visiting professor (M1 studio, DST)

2009-11 thesis project supervision, third year studio (U3)

2008/09 first year studio (U1) / graduate studio (M2)

carleton university azrieli school of architecture and urbanism

2009-10 graduate studios as azrieli visiting critic

2007/09 fourth year speculative design studio

2006 landscape studio and DSA with the banff centre for the arts

banff centre for the arts

2008-11 mst two week architecture lab

mount allison university canadian studies/crc

2008 senior undergraduate design lectures in creative practice

dalhousie university school of architecture

2005 cinecitta freelab cinema, scenography and perception

1990 -91 bachelor of environmental design b3 design tutor

royal academy of art school of architecture copenhagen denmark visiting professor

2004 architecture and speed one week studio

university of calgary , faculty of environmental design , faculty of fine arts

2022-25 doctor of design critic

2005-07 advanced speculative interdisciplinary graduate studio FFA/EVDS

2005-07 senior sculpture studio FFA

2001-08 graduate thesis supervision, advisement and committees FFA/EVDS

2000-04 advanced comprehensive graduate design studios EVDS

1999-07 design studio one EVDS

2001-07 graphics studio EVDS

2001 05 design studio two EVDS

1998-99 design studio three EVDS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE / CRITICAL DESIGN PRACTICE

AK A/andrewkingstudio CALGARY/MONTREAL 1990-

AKA/FLDWRK TORONTO/MONTREAL

tamil cultural centre in design

slip house under construction

hawk house nova scotia in construction P/A award

roth house calgary in design

stride art gallery in design

stride urban strategy urban design study

city of calgary expropriation urban design study appeal/policy change

town of golden urban design canadian architect june 2008

clarke/cran house calgary in design avenue magazine

university of calgary convocation scenography

van rosendaal house tofino built 2007

kensington clinic built 2004 canadian architect june 2005

thread studio design canadian architect december 2002

holiday house built 2002/4

ez house unbuilt canadian architect buiding/art

tros keefe house built 2007 canadian architect award of excellence

tripathy gill house built 2002 avenue magazine

calgary centre for the arts masterplan avenue

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE / LEADERSHIP WITHIN LARGE INTERNATIONAL PRACTICE

DESIGN PRINCIPAL FOR CANADA 2016-2023 lemay/FLDWRK

orataoire st. joseph bell tower in design montreal office

CHUQ hospital quebec in design/construction montreal office

parc drapeau in design montreal office

DESIGN PRINCIPAL FOR CANADA 2008-PRESENT CANNONDESIGN

capilano university film school complete C/A award vancouver office

CESM soccer centre competition finalist montreal office

science centre addition in construction vancouver office

wilfred laurier/YMCA sports centre P/A award to/van office

CHUM hospital montreal in design/construction montreal office

fort st john hospital complete vancouver office

xian sports complex invited competition shanghai office

pan am games venue concept design/awarded toronto office

AIM campus mumbai concept design boston office

CANNONDESIGN LEADERSHIP APPOINTMENTS

2009- CHUM superhospital leadership committee

2012-15 board of directors

2013-15 director branding committee

2013 canada large firm roundtable

2010- design practice committee

OTHER LARGE PRACTICE

DESIGN CONSULTANT/LEADER 1997- 05 VARIOUS FIRMS

alberta childrens hospital built 2003-2005

golden visitors centre built 2005

burgess shale learning centre built 2001 aaa design award

intercontinental hotel, budapest built 2000 octogon

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE / INTERNATIONAL PRACTICE

BERLIN 1994-96 STANKOVIC + BONNEN ARCHITECTURE

ibb bank invited competition 1 prize built 1998 bauwelt, centrum

three public zones berlin 2 prize invited competition

new german government ministries invited competition

1992-94 ARCHITECTURESTUDIO TIM HEIDE

house alsterblick addition built 1995 bauwelt,, aedes gallery

leninallee urban design study bauwelt, centrum, aedes gallery

1991-92 JOHN HEJDUK /MORITZ MULLER

IBA housing built 1991 published internationally

LONDON 1987-88 ZAHA HADID ARCHITECT

peak hong kong exhibition at m.o.m.a.

iba berlin social housing built 1994 published internationally

tomigaya tokyo published internationally

azabu tokyo published internationally

deconstructivist architecture exhibition drawings moma new york

HALIFAX 1986-91 BRIAN MACKAY-LYONS ARCHITECTURE

dalhousie university campus plan published internationally

w/ charles moore, giancarlo decarlo, bill mitchell lieutenant governors award

maynard street housing built 1988 governor generals medal

legallais house built1987 lieutenant governors medal

new room for architecture international competition 1 prize

t.u.n.s. architecture addition built 1991 published internationally

OTHER APPOINTMENTS

2012-15 public art selection committee CHUM montreal

2012-15 board of directors cannondesign firmwide

2013-15 director branding committee cannondesign

2013 canada large firm roundtable cannondesign

2010- design practice committee cannondesign

2006-08 board member stride art gallery calgary

2005- stride building committee stride art gallery calgary

2004- adviser laboratorio architettura nomade napoli, italy

2001 editorial board on site review magazine calgary

2001-2 director of architecture artcity calgary

1998 architecture and design director our millenium calgary

1997 western editor raic update calgary

OTHER MEDIA

2012 I tunes university andrew king sheff lecture mcgill university

2009 readers digest commentary on brian mackay-lyons international

2006 CBC arts tonight interview with eleanor wachtel national

2004 CBC afternoon show architecture in calgary calgary

2004 CBC wild rose show architecture calgary

2003 globe and mail design icons/rome prize national

2003 calgary herald interview/rome prize calgary