2010

publications

Cover, Landscape Architecture Magazine, February 2010 Ponte Formaggio Concept by P and R for PWL Partnership Landscape Architects.

2009

awards

Public Art Award of Excellence, the Office of Cultural Affairs, City of North Vancouver, for Pier Fixtures, The Pier Phase 1

Articles/reviews

Globe and Mail Newspaper, The Lakewood Residence, by Kerry Gold
January, 2009.

Jury Member

Where’s the Square? design competition Jury member
Vancouver Public Space Network, Vancouver, May 2009.

Lecture

Speaker “Aerial Views of Human Settlement”
Pecha Kucha Night, Vancouver, June, 2009.

Lecture/Conference

Speaker “On Cemetery Design”
Jewish Cemetery Association of North America (JCANA)
Berkley, California, June 2009.

2008

Lectures/Open House

Keynote Speaker Revisiting the Uniquely local Vancouver Special – public lecture for the Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s inaugural Vancouver Special Program, September 2008.

House Tour - The Lakewood Residence was the featured project for the Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s inaugural Vancouver Special Program, September, 2008.

2007

Exhibitions

Finding Sudoku
exhibition –Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver, BC, September 2007

Transitions
Pechet and Robb in group exhibition - building a case for sanctioning studio spaces in Vancouver
Chapel Arts, Vancouver, BC
March 2008

Publications

SweaterLodge
in Canada Innovates: Cultural Spaces , Jane Weber .Ed.
Institute without Boundaries
George Brown College

Articles/reviews

reviews in:
Globe and Mail Newspaper, Exeter Residence, by Tyee Bridge
Georgia Straight Weekly, Finding Sudoku review, Robin Laurence
V Magazine, profile of Pechet and Robb, May 2008

Lectures/Conferences

Keynote Speaker ‘The work of Pechet and Robb’
Landmark lecture Series
sponsored by the Capital Regional Core Municipalities of Victoria, Saanich, Esquimalt and Oak Bay, BC
Esquimalt City Hall, Esquimalt, BC
November , 2007

Keynote Speaker ‘The Body Public –projects by Pechet and Robb’
Exposed: A Forum for New Public Art
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Speaker selected works of Pechet and Robb
Working With and Within the City, City of Saskatoon,
Saskatoon conference centre

Presenter Roundtable discussion on civic infrastructure and the creative imagination, Working With and Within the City, as above, November, 2007

2006

Lectures/Conferences

Speakers ‘About our work’ Greater Vancouver Regional District networking session, United Nation’s World Urban Forum 3, Vancouver, June, 2006

Exhibitions

SweaterLodge Exhibition – The Canadian Pavilion, Venice Biennale of Architecture, Venice, Italy

2005

Selected to represent Canada at the 2006 Venice Biennale of Architecture.

Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia Innovation Award for Architecture, the Lakewood Residence.

Radio Canada, January 2005
Television interview about the Lakewood Residence.

2004

The Vancouver Sun, October 30, 2004
“Something Special“, by Kim Pemberton
Review of the Lakewood Residence.

SWEATERLODGE
Polarfleece, carabiners, water containers
Making Out: Installations from Unconventional West Coast Architects (exhibition), Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, October 2004.

Western Living Magazine, Summer 2004
“Natural Law”, by Jacqueline Moore
Review of the Exeter Residence.

Canadian Architect, July 2004
“The Vancouver Special Redux”, by Christopher Macdonald.
Review of the Lakewood Residence.

Western Living Magazine, May 2004
“Don’t Settle for a Bungalow. Make it a Fetching Bungaloft ”, by Adele Weder
Review of the Lakewood Residence.

building/art, University of Calgary Press, 2003
This recent survey of Canadian architectural practice
Review of GRANtable and Bearing, pp 39-41, 116-118.

2003

Regional Honour Award, Canadian Society of Landscape Architects
For St. Andrew’s Park
With the City of North Vancouver.

2001

Regional Honour Award, Canadian Society of Landscape Architects
For Mountain View Master Plan
With Philips, Wuori, Long Landscape Architects.

2000

Merit Award, American Society of Landscape Architects
For Mountain View Master Plan
With Philips, Wuori, Long Landscape Architects.

1999

Woods Columbaria / Brutal Telling / Bearing
Models, drawings, objects
Bigger than a Breadbox (exhibition)
The Architecture Gallery, Vancouver, BC.

The National Post , April 3, 1999
“Tomb with A View” by Adele Weder
Review of Ideas for Mountain View Cemetery.

1998

GUESS WHO? PECHET and ROBB
Drawings, photos, text
Canadian Practice – 16 Architectures (exhibition)
Canada House, London, England / RIBA Architecture Centre / UK Tour.

Stadt Bauwelt Special Vancouver Issue, 1998
“None of the Above” - Pechet and Robb, by Trevor Boddy
General Review of Practice, pp. 72-74.

1997

Border Crossings, 1997
“Fresh Heirs Apparent”, by Stephen Pope
Review of Pentimenti Exhibition, Ottawa.

The Fulcrum, March 20, 1997
“Creating the City”, by Jeff Leiper
Review of Pentimenti Exhibition, Ottawa.

The Ottawa Citizen, March 11, 1997
“Only the Patient Sleuth”, by Nancy Beale
Review of Pentimenti Exhibition, Ottawa.

The Globe and Mail, March 15, 1997
“Depicting the Design Process”, by Rhys Phillips
Review of Pentimenti Exhibition, Ottawa.

Le Devoir, March 15, 1997
Forme, Genèse d’aujourd’hui, by Sophie Gironnay
Review of Pentimenti Exhibition.

The Globe and Mail, July 12, 1997
High Density Interment in BC, by Trevor Boddy
Review of Woods Columbaria, West Vancouver, BC.

The Vancouver Courier, December 17, 1997
Bronze Plaque Maze, by Ann Sullivan
Review of Make West, Vancouver, BC.

The Vancouver Courier, November 30, 1997
Mountain View Prepares, by Alison Appelbe.

Panorama - City of Vancouver Public Art Newsletter
Summer 1997
Make West description.

Arcade - Journal for Architecture and Design in the North West, Fall 1997
Objects of Thought Permanence, pp. 8-9
Chairs at Ambleside, West Vancouver, BC.

Arcade - Journal for Architecture and Design in the North West, Spring 1997
The Woods Columbaria, pp. 18-19, by Jim Nicholls.

1996

The New York Times, October 11, 1996
Dance Review, by Anna Kisselgoff
Review of In the Course of Sleeping, Ballets de Monte Carlo.

1994

THE CANADIAN ARCHITECT, August 1994
Facing the Land: Landscape Design in Canada, by Rick Andrighetti
Review of the Woods Columbaria, p. 18.

INSITE, September 1994
The Regeneration: How Original thinkers are Redifining the Power of Architecture, by Lisa Rochon, biographic review and illustration of Wibachi, p. 40. Editorial references p. 9.