OUR PEOPLE
At Longpre Architecture, architecture is carried by people before it is carried by drawings.
Every project depends on listening, trust, judgment, and care. The work moves through clients, consultants, contractors, builders, city staff, and the people who will one day live inside the places we make. Our role is to bring those people into alignment around a clear vision, then protect that vision as it becomes real.
Founded by David Longpre in 2022, the studio is grounded in craft, lived experience, and the belief that architecture must serve people first. We design homes, multiplexes, multi family developments, and selected projects where the human experience matters.
Strong architecture requires more than talent. It requires honesty, patience, collaboration, and the courage to protect what matters when the process becomes difficult. Meet the people of Longpre Architecture, the architects, collaborators, and companions who help make homes, not just housing.
OUR FOUNDER
DAVID LONGPRE
MASTER ARCHITECT
Architect AIBC, MArch, BFA
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Architecture as a Vessel for the Soul
David Longpre is the founder and principal architect of Longpre Architecture, a Vancouver based practice focused on homes, multiplexes, multi family developments, and selected projects where the human experience matters. His work is human first, rooted in the belief that architecture is more than drawings. It is the study of how people live, feel, gather, heal, and come home to themselves through place.
David calls this idea Vessels for the Soul. Inspired by his time living in Japan and the Japanese concept of kami, he sees architecture as something far deeper than shelter, image, or real estate. A home holds memory, identity, family, grief, joy, ritual, and transformation. It shapes how people move through the world, how they recover, how they connect, and who they are becoming.
His practice is deeply interested in the relationship between psychology and architecture, what he often thinks of as psycho architecture. Why do certain spaces calm us while others create tension? Why does one room feel sacred while another feels empty? How do proportion, light, material, sound, compression, openness, and sequence affect the human nervous system, emotion, and spirit? These questions sit at the centre of his work.
David’s perspective has been shaped through international study, travel, lived experience abroad, and a lifelong interest in the spiritual traditions that have shaped human culture, including Christianity, Buddhism, Shinto, ancient religious systems, and Hermetic principles. In Japan, he became fascinated by restraint, atmosphere, ritual, impermanence, and the emotional power of space. These studies deepened his understanding of architecture as a vessel for meaning, a way of giving physical form to the unseen forces that shape human life.
He holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Calgary, and his career spans boutique studios and large scale firms, with experience across residential, commercial, institutional, cultural, and educational projects.
In practice, David brings an artisan’s respect for builders together with a clear command of process. He guides clients through design, zoning, rezoning, permitting, consultants, contractors, and construction with care, craft, and backbone. His role is not only to design the architecture, but to protect the integrity, livability, and soul of the project as it becomes real.
For David, architecture is ultimately about humans and their transformation. Each project is a shared journey, one that asks for honesty, patience, and trust. At its best, the result is not only a finished building, but a home that reflects who its occupants are and supports who they are becoming.
