ACRE ARCHITECTS IS A PRACTICE OF STORIED ARCHITECTURE – INSPIRING PEOPLE TO LIVE GREAT STORIES
WE ARE COMMITTED TO CREATING ORIGINAL, PROVOCATIVE, CONTEXTUALLY DRIVEN DESIGN AT THE CORE OF EVERY IDEA IS A UNIQUE STORY.
Winner of the 2017 Lieutenant-Governor Award for Excellence in Architecture in New Brunswick, and selected for Wallpaper magazine’s 2016 Architects’ Directory of “rising-star and breakthrough practices from around the globe”, Acre Architects’ unique practice of Storied Architecture champions more meaningful ways of living, and through narrative, helps shape a vision that inspires people to embark on a process of discovery, defying convention and ultimately creating their own myth.
Acre Architects vision is to change the world by creating 100 Transformational projects by the year 2030.
Acre Architects was co-founded by partners Monica Adair and Stephen Kopp in 2010, where realizing narratives and developing identities has become a specialty of their firm. In Atlantic Canada, they are reframing the value proposition of architecture by focusing on intensive pre-design services through Storied Architecture to ultimately create more meaningful cultural commissions.
The Storied Architecture process is a unique delivery model that helps clients embark on a rigorous discovery process, to uncover the storied elements that help drive the vision, and to craft the strategic narratives that shape the outcomes to provide focused solutions for the project.
Building a practice in a bilingual province without a school of architecture, where there are only 11 Architects under the age of 40, Acre Architects do not take the conventional order of things as a given. Based out of Saint John, New Brunswick, they see operating on the fringe of larger city centers as a fertile testing ground to tackle global questions, and to explore new models of practice without the barriers of preconceived ways forward.
With projects extending from rural outposts in Burlington, Newfoundland, to the hills outside of Austin Texas, Acre Architects continues to pursue work with a global context, while investing in local commissions to inspire people to believe they can live better. Stories have the ability to reveal strong and deeply held emotions that are the key to the structure of our lives. Architecture can convey our stories, and in the end, it’s not just a building; it’s something that rethinks the way we see ourselves and the way we live our lives.