The Team
Lumion Tharven
Principal Architect & Co-Founder
Lumion's been obsessed with buildings since he was a kid sketching floor plans during math class. After working at a couple big firms that felt too corporate, he wanted something different - more human-scale, more experimental. He's the one who'll geek out over passive solar angles at lunch and somehow make it interesting. His residential projects have this way of feeling both modern and cozy, which isn't easy to pull off.
When he's not at the drafting table, you'll find him hiking the North Shore trails or tinkering with his 1970s Airstream renovation project.
Quinth Ravenwood
Urban Planning Director & Co-Founder
Quinth came from a city planning background and honestly got frustrated watching development projects ignore the communities they were built in. She's got this talent for seeing the big picture - how a building fits into a neighborhood, where people actually walk, what a street needs to feel alive. Her approach to urban planning is less about rigid zoning and more about creating spaces that evolve with the people using them.
She's also the most organized person in the studio, which balances out the rest of us creative types. Spends her weekends exploring Vancouver's different neighborhoods by bike and advocating for better cycling infrastructure.
Marcus Chen
Senior Sustainability Consultant
Marcus joined us three years ago after doing environmental engineering work in Toronto. He's the guy who actually knows how to read energy models and can tell you exactly why one insulation material makes more sense than another. But what's cool about Marcus is he doesn't talk down to clients - he explains the technical stuff in ways that actually make sense. His passion's around retrofitting older buildings to modern green standards without destroying their character.
Total coffee snob who's always trying to get everyone to visit his favorite roasters around the city. Also builds furniture in his garage workshop on weekends.
Sasha Kowalski
Interior Architecture Lead
Sasha's got an eye that the rest of us just don't have. She can walk into an awkward space and immediately see how to make it work. Her background's in set design actually, which gives her this theatrical sense of how people move through rooms. She's been with us for five years and handles most of our interior optimization projects. Clients love her because she really listens to how they actually live instead of imposing some Instagram-perfect aesthetic.
She's also teaching a night class at Emily Carr on sustainable interior materials and collects vintage lighting fixtures that she refurbishes.
