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Studio Lapstrake is a design-research practice based between the inland prairies of Winnipeg, MB and coastal landscapes of Nova Scotia. The office works transcalarly through both local and global contexts, providing full-scale architectural services ranging in typological focus from small-scale single-family residential to larger scopes of educational, industrial, and urban design that incorporate systems-level analysis of material and energetic flows. We believe deeply in the power of architecture to build meaningful connections to history & place, and in the transformational role it plays with respect to culture and technology.

Asst. Professor, U of M Faculty of Architecture

MArch, SMBT, MIT ‘24

Inge Donovan is a practitioner and educator at the University of Manitoba, where she holds the role of assistant professor within the Faculty of Architecture. She achieved both her Masters of Architecture and Masters of Science in Building Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and holds an undergraduate degree from the Daniels Faculty of Architecture at the University of Toronto. She is the co-founder of Future Assemblies, a research and design collective focused on cross-disciplinary decarbonization work between design, engineering, computation, and construction history. Her work addresses the need to re-think the way in which we design, build, and un-build in a resource conscious future, with work exhibited internationally, including at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale.

MArch, MIT ‘24

NCARB, MA

David Pankhurst is an MIT-trained designer and researcher whose work advances context-driven design across scales in pursuit of cultural, economic, and environmental sustainability. He has taught and lectured at the University of Manitoba, is a frequent collaborator with Future Assemblies Design+Research Collective, and prior researcher at MIT’s Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism. In all forms of practice, his work is focused on situating material assemblies within their broader landscape and infrastructures to produce place-specific, low-carbon outcomes.