Paul Kariouk

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Paul Kariouk holds the rank of Professor and teaches design studios at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Additionally, he created the undergraduate lecture course, The Modern Designed Landscape.

He received his professional degree from Columbia University and completed his undergraduate studies in architecture at the University of Virginia. Alongside his university roles, he has over 30 years of experience in the profession and is licensed to practice architecture in the States of New York and Virginia, as well as the Province of Ontario.

His office, Kariouk Architects, has won multiple AIA honors, including a National AIA Award, an AIA New York Chapter Award, and an AIA New York Chapter Interiors Residential Review. The work of the office has been a finalist in the OAA Design Excellence Awards. His office has received Architizer’s Best Small Practice Award and has earned further awards from Dezeen, Architizer, and The Canadian Wood Council. The work of Kariouk Architects has been published extensively in books and architectural journals in North and South America, Europe, and Asia, and in Canada, has been featured in the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, and the National Post. The work of the office has also been invited to the Venice Biennale.

Kariouk’s installation, “(a)way station: the architectural spaces of migration” (completed with Mabel O. Wilson), was sponsored and exhibited by the Storefront for Art and Architecture and funded by the New York State Council on the Arts and the Graham Foundation. It was subsequently exhibited at additional venues, including New York’s Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian National Design Museum, Yale University, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, which acquired the work for its permanent collection. Kariouk and Wilson also authored a shortlisted competition entry for Manhattan’s African Burial Ground.

The office of Kariouk Architects is dedicated to pro bono work, including support for local groups challenging the erasure of community spaces, expert testimony in related legal challenges, design work for Ottawa refugee centres, and fundraising via design for the Ottawa Humane Society.

Specific information on the work of Kariouk Architecture can be found at kariouk.com.