Michael Levin, BESMEnv, M.Arch., MAIBC        

President and Director of Praxis Architects, Inc., Michael Levin has been in private practice in Victoria for the past 17 years. Previously, he worked as a facility planner at BC Buildings Corp.

Since qualifying as an architect at the University of Waterloo and earning his Masters at the University of Manitoba, Levin has practised architecture in a variety of capacities and firms across Canada.

From Toronto as a facilities planner for Jamaica’s Gun Court and for numerous maximum security facilities throughout Canada and the Caribbean, Levin moved to Edmonton and then Regina. While an associate with the IBI Group in Edmonton Michael was part of a team awarded the 25-storey residential tower and club renovation for the Ranchman’s Club in Calgary and won an award for the Terwilliger Park Information Centre in Edmonton.  While senior partner in Regina with Building Design Partnership, Michael was awarded design competitions for SaskOil’s Headquarters and the Regina Exhibition Centre which included exhibition space, a pari-mutuels race track, casino, banquet facilities convention centre and arena.

In Victoria, his skills as a communicator, planner and team player have allowed him to build a flourishing practice serving a diversity of returning clients. Michael’s expertise with high-rise design and construction and his skills at negotiations have earned many residential multi-unit design projects. From the Sooke Seniors Home to the Red Lion Inn and the Royal and McPherson Theatres, to numerous hotel projects, Levin has practiced in residential, commercial and hospitality architecture with increasing success.

“Budget always plays a part in the developer’s ethic and I pride myself in targeting the project to be on budget and on time. The environmental needs, the functional needs, the client’s ideas, ideals and needs, melded with my own commitment to thoughtful planning and innovative design all shape my architectural responses.”