PETER SAMPSON BA, BArch
MAA | OAA | AAA | FRAIC
Peter is Principal Architect of Public City Architecture based in Winnipeg. He is a Canadian architect of Swedish descent and grew up in both Montreal and Toronto. He studied Literature at McGill University, graduating in 1991, and, after living in Spain and Haida Gwaii, went on to study Architecture at the University of Toronto. He has worked with a number of distinguished firms including Joe Lobko Architect (now DTAH) and Levitt Goodman Architects (now LGA Partnership). In 2008, he established his own practice and in 2016, Liz Wreford joined him as Director and Principal Landscape Architect. The two have restructured the firm into a trans-disciplinary practice that works seamlessly across architecture and landscape architecture. The work of their award-winning practice was recently published in Leslie Jen’s new book, Canadian Architecture, Evolving a Cultural Identity. Peter is interested in the pleasure of making and inhabiting an architecture that is striking, joyful, healthy, and balances itself within its natural, human, and economic contexts. Between 1998-2018, he taught architecture at the Universities of Toronto, Waterloo, and Manitoba. In 2017, he was elected into the Royal Canadian Institute of Architecture’s College of Fellows. In 2012, he was juror of the Canadian Architect Awards, and in 2015, a juror of the AIA Alaska Awards.
