Measured Architecture is a Vancouver-based studio practice focused on modern design, interiors and landscapes. From our inception in 2007, we have delivered exceptional public and private environments that are stimulating to occupy and fundamental to their surroundings. As a full-service firm, Measured is present on projects from start to finish, ensuring that the ideas conceived in the beginning with clients are manifest at the end. We achieve this through close collaboration with all members of the project team, including consultants, contractors, trades and artisans.
Modern Human Spaces
We practice situational modernism — a subject-based, humanist approach that considers a project through the aspirations of a client, the opportunities of a site and the constraints of a municipality, budget and schedule. We work to understand these need sets — to treat them as minimum standards of practice — and move forward to create ideal spaces based on this criteria. The measure of success for us is when clients tell us that while the space might not look like what they had imagined, their experience of it is what they had desired at the project outset.
Measured in Years
2007
With Clinton Cuddington at the helm, Measured opens its doors as a full-service architecture firm with the objective of creating contemporary, environmentally sound buildings for both the private and public sectors.
2008
Hardly a year old, Measured receives a Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia Award of Merit for a Mayne Island retreat, completes Wolfe House, and wins Western Living Magazine’s inaugural Architecture Designer of the Year.
2015
Measured Architecture wins the Architectural Institute of British Columbia Emerging Firm Award and, for the second time, Western Living Magazine’s Architecture Designer of the Year.
Awards
- Western Living Architect of the Year / 2022
- Architecture Foundation of British Columbia Special Jurors Award - Shift House / 2021
- CWC Wood Design & Building Citation - Veil House / 2021
- GRAY Awards Wildcard - Restock / 2020
- Western Living Interior Designer of the Year / 2020
- Wood Works BC Residential Wood Design - Shift House / 2019
- Architectural Institute of British Columbia Lieutenant-Governor Award Merit Level – Rough House / 2016
- Architectural Institute of British Columbia Special Jury Award for Heritage Retention and Modernization – Shaughnessy House / 2016
- Architectural Institute of British Columbia Emerging Firm Award / 2015
- Western Living Magazine Architecture Designer of the Year / 2015
- Masonry Institute of British Columbia Design Awards Single Family Home – Waterfront House / 2015
- Western Living Magazine Architecture Designer of the Year / 2008
- American Institute of Architects/Dwell Magazine How green are you? Contest Runner-up – Gulf Islands House / 2008
- Architectural Institute of British Columbia Lieutenant-Governor Award Merit Level – Mayne Island Retreat / 2008
Publications
- Western Living Announcing Our 2022 Designers of the Year / 1 Sep 2022
- Montecristo Magazine Veil House / 20 Aug 2021
- Canadian Architect Shift House / 3 Nov 2021
- Wood Design & Building Veil House / 23 Mar 2021
- Dwell Veil House / 23 Mar 2021
- Arch Daily Wood Design & Building Award Winners Announced / 26 Feb 2021
- Modern Home Magazine Interview with Piers Cunnington / 24 Mar 2021
- Canadian Architect Wood Design & Building Award Winners Announced / 24 Feb 2021
- Modern Home Magazine Graft2 House / 5 Feb 2021
- Nuvo Magazine On High ft Lagoon House / 30 Jan 2021
- GRAY Magazine Editor's Pick: Lagoon House Entryway / 11 Dec 2020
- Vancouver Sun Equinox Gallery / 5 Oct 2020
- Western Living Announcing Our 2020 Designers of the Year / 11 Sep 2020
- Western Living In Good Measure / 10 Sep 2020
- Scout Magazine Tractor Everyday Healthy Foods Opens 10th Location in West Vancouver / 25 Aug 2020
- Hauser Shift House / 6 Jul 2020
- Dwell Before & After: A Humdrum Midcentury in Vancouver Gets an Origami-Like Addition / 15 May 2020
- Hauser Rough House Laneway / 15 Apr 2020
- Western Living We Asked Designers: How Will COVID Affect the Future of Design? / 26 Mar 2020
- Western Living Pixel Perfect / 15 Mar 2020
- Globe & Mail We need a change in the way we make, build and consume. A circular economy may hold the answer / 7 Mar 2020
- Home Builder Digest The Best Residential Architects and Designers in Vancouver, Canada / 24 Feb 2020
- Dwell Shift House Included in Top Instagram Posts on Dwell / 29 Nov 2019
- Canadian Interiors IDS Vancouver Installations Utilize Sustainable Concepts / 10 Oct 2019
- Design Milk Why We Love IDS Vancouver / 4 Oct 2019
- Azure 3 Beautiful Designs that Elevate the Practice of Upcycling / 3 Oct 2019
- Globe & Mail Rethinking and reclaiming materials / 19 Sep 2019
- Vancouver Sun IDS Vancouver: Make the most of your time by checking out these three essential features / 24 Aug 2019
- Arch Daily Step House / 20 Aug 2019
- Canadian Architect IDS Vancouver unveils the concept for the central bar on its show floor / 13 Jun 2019
- Dwell A new Vancouver home dazzles with a facade that looks like falling confetti / 17 Apr 2019
- Western Living A Stunning Renovation of a Heritage Vancouver Home / 9 Apr 2019
- Vancouver Sun Michael Geller: In celebration of wood / 30 Mar 2019
- Western Living Inside a Slick Whistler Cabin Designed for Family Living / 27 Mar 2020
- Little House in the City Grade House / 14 Nov 2018
- The New Urban House: A Global Survey Rough House / 5 Nov 2020
- The Globe and Mail Favourite room: A seamless transition from indoor to outdoor living / 14 Jun 2018
- The Globe and Mail Favourite room: An outdoor space designed for Vancouver’s ‘semi-rainforest environment’ / 7 Jun 2018
- Contemporist Carbonized cypress wood covers the exterior of this new house in Vancouver / 21 Apr 2017
- Inhabitat Green roof flows into a lush living wall on this modern Vancouver home / 1 Apr 2017
- Dezeen Measured Architecture incorporates green roofs and living wall into slender Vancouver residence / 12 Apr 2017
- New York Times My Vancouver: an ever-unfolding story / 1 Apr 2017
- Western Living Magazine 9 homes with gorgeous exteriors / 1 Mar 2017
- Western Living Magazine Inside an airy home reno connected to the great outdoors / 5 Oct 2016
- Architectural Record The Rough House by Measured Architects / 1 Feb 2017
- The Globe and Mail Vancouver architects hope Rough House inspires more innovative homes / 1 Jun 2016
- Dwell Magazine A wild garden leaps off the walls of this backyard build / 1 Jun 2016
- Dwell Magazine One home, three bathrooms, each with an awesome way to use tile / 1 Apr 2016
- Gray Magazine A modern intervention / 1 Dec 2015
- Western Living Magazine Design lab: Measured Architecture’s home experiment / 1 Oct 2015
- Architectural Digest Mexico Casa Claustro / 1 Sep 2015
- ArchDaily Grade House / 1 Sep 2015
- ArchDaily Cloister House + Laneway / 24 Sep 2015
- Dezeen Measured Architecture clads a Vancouver home in wood-textured concrete / 1 Sep 2015
- Archello Cloister House + Laneway / 1 Sep 2015
- Archello Grade House / 1 Sep 2015
- Contemporist This house in Vancouver was designed as a quiet refuge within the city / 1 Sep 2015
- Western Living Magazine Architecture Designer of the Year: Measured / 1 Aug 2015
- The Globe and Mail How tile can become the design star of a home / 1 Jun 2015
- Gray Magazine Open secret / 1 Apr 2015
- Business World Magazine Artful subtle architectural sustainability / 1 Jan 2015
- Sixty7 Architecture Road Deeply invested in collaboration: Measured Architecture / 29 Nov 2014
- The West Coast Modern House Wolfe House + Cloister House / 1 Nov 2014
- Canadian Architect Industrial revolution / 1 Mar 2014
- Azure Magazine A Vancouver home that lets in the light / 25 Feb 2014
- The Globe and Mail Meet modernist design, Vancouver's new housing trend / 1 Dec 2013
- Winnipeg Free Press Pedals power green dream / 1 Feb 2013
- Exploring Vancouver: The Architectural Guide Wolfe House / 27 Apr 2012
- Canadian Architect Room and board / 1 Mar 2012
- The Globe and Mail Hot House: A paradigm of in-your-face modernism / 18 Feb 2010