We believe regenerative design can solve the needs of our clients, our communities, and our planet.

Our entire practice is designed to make this possible!

At Local Practice, we design community infrastructure that connects people with the living planet. We work with public agencies and thought-leading clients across the Salish Sea bioregion, employing our regenerative design expertise to create healthy, equitable, and resilient communities.

Our team provides three primary areas of service: architectural design and contract administration, sustainable design and policy advice, and Integrated Design Process facilitation. Together, this expertise allows us to successfully support our clients in advancing regeneration across a variety of project types and scales including community infrastructure, diverse educational facilities, adaptive reuse of existing buildings, and affordable housing projects. Regardless of project scale or typology, Local Practice works through a unique regenerative process built around meaningful collaboration, cooperative learning, holistic integration, whole systems thinking, constant creativity, and relentless optimism.

We operate out of a single studio in what is now known as East Vancouver, on the unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. We acknowledge that our projects are a part of these territories and those of other Indigenous Nations. We thank these nations who continue to live on these lands and care for them, along with the waters and all that is above and below.