About Danielson Architecture Office
Patrick Danielson founded DAO in 2017, and the practice is marking 10 years. We're a small team in Sudbury and Ottawa designing industrial, commercial and residential projects across Ontario.
Design credibility, construction realism.
We design new buildings, additions and changes to existing properties, from working out what a property can hold to making sure the result can be built on budget.
Mass timber and existing-building work gave us our technical grounding, and we apply it to repeatable systems such as Lantern Box.
DAO has held an Ontario Association of Architects Certificate of Practice since 2017, and our principal is also licensed in British Columbia. A sister company, Danielson Associates Office Inc., has run our research since 2014, including the patented Formid seat and our material research.
Who you'll work with.
Patrick Danielson
Founder and Principal Architect · OAA, AIBC, MRAIC
Patrick studied biomedical science at Laurentian University and architecture at UBC. He is licensed in Ontario and British Columbia, holds two US patents, and has led research funded by Mitacs, NOHFC and FPInnovations. He has taught at the McEwen School of Architecture, the University of Waterloo and UBC. He flies the company aircraft and speaks English and French.
Jeremy Upward
Chief Technology Officer, Intern Architect · MArch, BArch
Jeremy chooses the tools behind DAO's workflow and is exploring spatial computing, so clients and builders can see a design in its real setting.
Katherine Morawietz
Architect · OAA · MArch, BArch
A graduate of Sudbury's McEwen School of Architecture, Katherine sets up the office's procedures and makes sure they hold up on site as projects move from design to construction.
Jason Presse
Architectural Designer, Intern Architect · MArch, BArch
Also a McEwen graduate, Jason focuses on community engagement and sustainable design, and keeps the people who will use a building at the centre of it.
A mobile office, across Ontario.
We come to the project: the site, the client, and the suppliers and builders.
We are based in Sudbury and Ottawa, Ontario, and work as a remote office. We come to you, or arrange a meeting wherever suits you. Most of our built work is in Greater Sudbury and Northern Ontario.
Our principal flies the practice's own aircraft for site visits, supplier meetings and construction review. Sudbury and Ottawa are about an hour and a half apart by air.
- Aircraft
- Pipistrel Virus
- Cruise
- 273 km/h
- Range
- 1,450 km
More about regional field access
Careers
Send a portfolio or link and your résumé to [email protected]. We read every application and contact the people we'd like to interview.
Have a site, a building or an idea? Tell us about it.
Email [email protected]. We work from Sudbury and Ottawa across Ontario.