Johan Voordouw

Associate Professor

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Johan Voordouw is an architect and design practitioner. He uses research creation methodologies to explore a diverse range of topics. Long-standing interests include architectural representation of domestic interiors, critical heritage, and the ongoing environmental crisis. These themes form the foundation of his creative, material, and digital design practice.

Voordouw is developing an idea around architecture as a complication in the landscape. He is interested in pursuing the resultant design implications for program, passive and active systems, and material assemblies.

In July 2025, he started his second sabbatical. During this time, he aims to complete a series of unfinished projects, including a book entitled New Image of Home. This work includes an ongoing project on world heritage, a project on Canadian domestic interiors, a series of digital etchings that spatially catalogue endangered species, and a series of speculative drawings and models exploring clouds — a longstanding technological and environmental interest.

Voordouw’s research has been published the The Plan Journal, and his creative work exhibited at the Magazin Gallery and the Academy of Fine Art in Vienna, the International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam, the Royal Academy Summer Show London, and the Venice Architecture Biennale. He completed an architecture residency at Art Omi in 2019.

He is a registered architect in the UK and has worked in professional practice in the U.K., Canada, and the Netherlands. His most notable professional experience was at Foster + Partners in London. Before joining Carleton, he taught at De Montfort University and London Southbank University.