Alex Minard

An avid adventurer, Alex draws insight and inspiration from his travels. The variety of perspectives he encounters is reflected in his approach to design, where diversity enables creative solutions. Pragmatic and playful, he favours simple, clean, and functional designs that spark delight in unique ways. He strongly believes that investing the time to understand the people who will ultimately live, learn, work, and play in a building is critical to its success. Since starting as a student in our model shop in 2005, he has worked on a wide variety of project scales and types and found a particular resonance with the design of places of learning at all scales.

As the technical director of our Vancouver and Calgary studios and a key part of our Quality Program, Alex supports all project teams in the development and documentation of solutions to technical design challenges. He also serves on the firmwide Perkins&Will Project Delivery Council, whose mandate is to continually refine our approach to project delivery through construction and post-occupancy so that it is holistic, progressive, adaptive, and efficient.