Terence Van Elslander Architect OAA MA
Educated at the prestigious Cranbrook Academy, a pioneering institute of modern design and architecture, Terence Van Elslander has been a registered architect in Canada since 1986. His practice is directed from Toronto Canada with recent projects located in Brunei, New York and Ontario.
In each project Van Elslander expresses a logic of context combined with the building process: in forms which both integrate and symbolize the client’s development. A project begins with the context of site, budget, and program. Value, continuity and quality are the guidelines for the resolution of this context into form. Construction ,and the molding of surface, space, and light is the process for the resolution of the form into a building.
Known for high standards of design and superior aesthetics, his practice delivers cost effective and efficient solutions. His design practice includes the following:
furniture and object design
single family residences
multiple residential projects
medical rehabilitation facilities
commercial-restaurants and theatres
urban planning-site, feasibility studies and project planning
A Selection of Previous Work
Toronto Globe and Mail 2009 "A little less direct, the connection to Mr. Saarinen is no less significant: Slowly and lovingly over the course of a quarter-century, he designed the campus and some of the buildings at Cranbrook, which had a “profound impact” on Mr. Van Elslander while he was studying for his master's degree in the late 1980s. “Everything just works together,” the 50-year-old architect says, “and you can see how the whole thing develops from a romanticism to a very severe modernism and there's no seam, no disjunction there.”
