Peter Jahnke pjahnke@piquearchitecture.com
Based in Seattle, Peter co-founded PIQUE in 2000 as a testing ground to explore new ideas and technologies and reinterpret existing notions through competitions and small gem projects.  As PIQUE grows, Jahnke continually makes sure there is at least one competition in the works and is passionate about infusing the energy, rigor and ideas of these competitions into our commissioned work.  Jahnke has a Masters in Architecture from Montana State University and has traveled extensively.  He has worked in New York as project designer for the Bitforms Digital Gallery at Archi-tectonics with Winka Dubbeldam, in Paris, France at Berg & Berg Architects and has over five years experience with various architecture offices in the Northwest. (more)

Keith Ballantyne kballantyne@piquearchitecture.com
Keith currently lives in Musselburgh, a small historic fishing village outside Edinburgh, Scotland. He is currently working on a research degree at the University of Edinburgh and acting as Course Organizer for the first-year design course there. Ballantyne’s interests lie in a search for significance - what qualities (in architecture) excite the public consciousness? Ballantyne co-founded PIQUE because we corporately believe that architecture is only significant when it aspires to achieve significance beyond the realms of fashion or trend and this is an ideal vehicle for pursuing and testing our ideas. (more)

Eric Meglasson emeglasson@piquearchitecture.com
Eric joined as one of the directors of PIQUE in 2005. Based in Bend, Oregon his sensitivity to clients, his determination towards a quality end product and his steadfast desire to "build things" has made him pivotal in the successes of PIQUE. Meglasson has over a decade of experience, half that time as a sole practitioner with a variety of building types in the ground to date. Eric holds a Masters degree from Montana State University.   (more)

Registered Architect: Washington & Montana, USA, 1996
NCARB Certificate

EDUCATION:

2002 -         University of Edinburgh, School of Arts, Culture and Environment, Department of Architecture, Edinburgh, Scotland - Postgraduate Researcher (M.Phil.) – “Strategies for the creation of meaningful architecture: the hinge between practice and academia” anticipated submission – Fall 2006

1992               Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, Bachelor of Architecture.

EMPLOYMENT:

Course Organizer/ Lead Tutor – University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

Architectural Design 1 (First Year).  Responsible for organizing, restructuring and operations of the course.  This entails management of 7 part-time tutors, creation of project structure and briefs, preparation of lectures and studio tutorials for a cohort of 90 students.

2004- - Director – PIQUE LLC
Collaborative architecture firm focusing on inventive and creative design solutions for commercial, institutional and residential projects with an emphasis on participating in design competitions.  www.piquearchitecture.com

2001-2002 - Visiting Lecturer - WashingtonStateUniversity, Pullman, WA.
Part-time tutor for second-year architectural design studio and AutoCAD instructor for interior design elective.

1998-2001 - Principal - Wolfe Ballantyne Studio Architects, PS.  Spokane, WA
Principal owner and designer of architecture and interior design firm specializing in contemporary interventions within existing fabrics and historic preservation.

1994-1998 - Associate – Bernardo Wills Architects, PS.  Spokane, WA
Designer and manager in a firm specializing in commercial and institutional projects.

1990-1994 - Intern Architect – L’Heureux Page Werner, PC.  Great Falls, MT
Design, production and construction management for a wide variety of projects including residential, commercial, institutional and interiors.

SELECTED BUILT PROJECTS:

BHW1, Spokane, WA.  Building renovation and interior design for a growing advertising agency.  Completed 2001

Cowles Publishing Company Parking Structure, Spokane, WA.  Design for a multiple story car park to accommodate 225 vehicles on a difficult urban site.  Completed 2001
HolleyMasonBuilding, Spokane, WA.  Historic restoration project awarded a Washington State Historic Preservation Award. Completed 1999

SELECTED UNBUILT PROJECTS:

Viewmaster 2005 , Bend, OR.  PIQUE[‘] project.  Commissioned design.

Collumbarium.  Speculative design proposal/investigation.  www.piquearchiteture.com

Groen Hoek Boathouse, New York, NY.  A collaborative design entry for an international competition that received jury commendation. 2004.

Window[?]Wall[?] Building, Spokane, WA.  An investigation challenging standards of retail development and the culture of pastiche.  2001.

Tree House: Screaming Mouse Offices, Spokane, WA.  Corporate offices for an upstart dotcom company.  A study in maximizing the full 3-D possibilities of the existing turn-of-the-century interior.  2001.

Missing-ToothBuilding, Spokane, WA.  A proposed mixed-use development of 25,000 square feet for a derelict site in downtown Spokane.  The proposal was used by the Downtown Business Improvement District as a model for desired development standards. 2000.

Subversive Insertions, Verona, Italy.  A collaborative design entry for an international competition.  Entry was awarded a Second Place.  1999.

AWARDS/EXHIBITIONS/PUBLICATIONS:

Vertical Patio, Seattle, WA.  Honor Award - Boston Society of Architects Unbuilt Architecture Design Awards program, 2005.  One of six projects awarded.  PIQUE[‘] project executed in collaboration with Peter Joel Jahnke, co-founder. 

Ballantyne, Keith & Dorian Wiszniewski.  “Grand Bazaar and Great Exchange:  The Architecture of Exchange in Istanbul”.  Presented at UIA 2005 Istanbul Congress. July 2005

Columbarium, Next Generation - Metropolis Magazine, August 2005.  Publication of finalists and winner of 2005 Next Generation Competition.

Columbarium.  Finalist in 2005 Metropolis Next Generation Design Competition.  A speculative PIQUE Architecture project executed in collaboration with Peter Joel Jahnke, co-founder. 

Groen Hoek Competition – Brooklyn Exhibit.  Exhibit of 65 commended entries.  3 – 28 September 2004.

Groen Hoek Boathouse, New York, NY.  A collaborative design entry for an international competition that received jury commendation. 2004.

Ballantyne, Keith.  “Architectural Praxis after Modernism,” in Edinburgh Architecture Research Vol. 29, 2004.  Proceedings from the postgraduate architectural symposium between the Graduiertenkolleg Berlin/Bamberg and Edinburgh University held in September 2003 at Edinburgh.

Barrie Wilson Memorial Prize for Outstanding First Year Research Postgraduate Student, Fall 2003.  University of Edinburgh.

Ballantyne, Keith.  “Speculations:  The Struggles and Designs of a “Challenger” Architectural Firm in Spokane,” in Sounding Spokane – Perspectives on the Built Environment of a RegionalCity.  Ed. David Wang, PhD.  Eastern Washington University Press, 2003

SPECULATIONS.  Exhibit at Washington State University, Interdisciplinary Design Institute Gallery, Spokane, WA. September 2000. Exhibit of my recent design.
 
Washington State Historic Preservation Officer's Award for Outstanding Achievement in Historic Preservation - The Valerie Sivinski Award for Outstanding Achievement in Historic Preservation Rehabilitation Projects – Holley Mason Building, Spokane, Washington, 2000

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:

2005-2006 - Course Organizer/ Lead Tutor, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
Courses taught:
Architectural Design 1 (First-year)           

• Course Organizer - Responsible for restructuring of First-year Design program to include creating new project briefs, writing lectures, preparing workshops, organization of budget, organization of schedule, casual-tutor employment arrangements, coordination with other courses and preparation and presentation to ARB and RIBA review boards for School/program accreditation at years end.
• Lead Tutor – Coordinate tutorials and tutors to support programme structure.  Set goals and outcomes and direct tutorials and lectures throughout the year.  Full studio day with tutorials every Friday with half-day tutorial/lectures on Tuesday mornings.

Postgraduate Tutor, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
Courses taught:  
·   Ecology & Environment (Second-year). 
-        Tutor project on environmental design strategies for an ongoing year-two project.  Specific areas of interest were site and microclimate, internal climate and the building skin.

2004-2005            Postgraduate Tutor, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
Courses taught:
·Masters of Architecture (Part 2) – Final year thesis; Borderlands in Istanbul

• Tutored to support and clarify the ‘Borderland’ theme created by the lead-tutor.  ‘Borderlands’ encourages a search for difference, areas in dispute, places of demarcation, unmediated or mediating territories and territorialities that illustrate techniques of exchange through either material expression, both as ongoing practice and as historical trace, or by the stalemate expressed by territorial division.  Importantly, the search for such territory does not presuppose a need or desire to fix or alter the landscape of the city per se but rather a desire to expose and celebrate the richness of the discursive and dynamic nature of the city. Students identify and interrogate their sites and make urban proposals using the ‘borderlands’ theme as the framework for their propositions.  This was a follow-on from the previous MArch2 project that was located in Budapest.  Istanbul is a border par excellence, being the threshold between East and West, Asia and Europe, Christianity and Islam, etc..

Technology & Environment (Second-year)
-        Tutor project on environmental design strategies for an ongoing year-two project.  Specific areas of interest were site and microclimate, internal climate and the building skin.

Postgraduate Seminar Tutor, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
Courses taught:
·CCX 2001 Architectural Theories and Philosophies (second-year)
Tutored a seminar on a variety of contemporary architectural theories and philosophies ranging from Modernism to Poststructuralism.  Included moderating numerous presentations and evaluating essays.

2003-2004 - Postgraduate Tutor, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
Courses taught:
·Masters of Architecture (Part 2) – Final year thesis; Borderlands in Budapest
Tutored to support and clarify the ‘Borderland’ theme created by the lead-tutor.  This was the first year this theme was tried at the University of Edinburgh.  This was the same programme as the previous MArch2 description listed above.  The project started in Budapest as it is one of the most clear examples of a ‘borderland’ in Europe – Buda and Pest only became united in the late C19 to form the city we now know.
Architecture and Technology (Fourth-year Honours)
Refinement of a project designed in a previous course with specific concern for technological integration.  Focus on maintaining and strengthening design intent through the process of ‘making real’ technological propositions.

2002-2003 - Postgraduate Tutor, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
Course taught:
Architecture and Technology (Fourth-year Honours)
Refinement of a project designed in a previous course with specific concern for technological integration.  Focus on maintaining and strengthening design intent through the process of ‘making real’ technological propositions.

2001-2002 - Visiting Lecturer, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
Courses taught:
Arch 201  Second-year architectural design
Ran one section of the design studio (15 students).  Focused on strengthening design fundamentals, judgment and communication skills through simple abstractions and small-scale building programs.
Arch 203  Second-year architectural design
Continuation from the previous term with continued focus on development of judgment and communication skills through small-scale building programs.
●  ID 403        Introduction to AutoCAD
Introduction to AutoCAD, specifically geared to Interior Design applications.  Two-dimensional drafting and various functionalities explored.
●  ID 405        Advanced CADD applications
Continuation from previous course.  Use of CAD to record and develop design proposals.  Introduction to three-dimensions and exposure to various presentation techniques. 

1996-2002 - Thesis Critic, Washington State University, Interdisciplinary Design Institute, Spokane, WA

ACTIVITIES:

Editor’s Committee, Edinburgh Architecture Research Journal, Vol. 30, 2005.

Co-founder & collaborator – PIQUE - A consortium for design and creative collaboration amongst design                  professionals.  www.piquearchitecture.com - 2004

Editor’s Committee, Edinburgh Architecture Research Journal, Vol. 29, 2004.

Co-chair, B2E – Eternalness or Transience, a postgraduate architectural symposium between the Graduiertenkolleg Berlin/Bamberg and Edinburgh University.  September 2003.

Chair, Postgraduate Seminar Series, School of Arts, Culture and Environment, Department of Architecture, University of Edinburgh. 2002-2003.

Advisory Council, Montana State University, School of Architecture, 2000-present

Exec. Board member, AIA Spokane, 1996-2002

Exec. Board member, Downtown Spokane Partnership, 1998-2001

Foreign travel – United Kingdom, Oslo, Paris, The Netherlands, Brussels, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Istanbul and Egypt.

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EDUCATION:

1997-1998       Montana State University, Bozeman, MT - Masters of Architecture (Honours)
1992-1996       Montana State University, Bozeman, MT -  Bachelors of Environmental Design (Honours)

2005-present    Director - PIQUE LLC, Seattle,WA
Collaborative architecture firm focusing on inventive and creative design solutions for commercial, institutional and residential projects with an emphasis on participating in design competitions.   www.piquearchitecture.com

2003-2005       Project Manager - Jivanjee Architect, Bend and Portland, Oregon
Managing projects including Residential, Commercial, and Retail.  Designing and Managing projects including Nolan Town Center, Bond Street Plaza, Ilwaco Townhomes, and the Yoga barn.

1999-2003       Principal – Meglasson Design, Bend, Oregon
Managed residential design firm specializing in high-end custom homes.  Projects ranging from $80K to $4M. 

1997-1999        Intern Architect – Llewellyn Architect, Bozeman, MT
Design and construction documents of various projects including residential, commercial, and interiors.

SELECTED BUILT PROJECTS:

Garren Residence, Bend, OR – PIQUE, Residence, Completed 2006.

1345 LEX, Bend, OR – Meglasson Design, urban infill residence, completed 2004.

Bond Street Plaza, Bend, OR – Jivanjee Architect, mixed use 3,500 square foot commercial redevelopment building in Old-Mill District of Bend.

View Silo House, Paradise Valley, MT- RoTo Archtects.  Member of project team conducting on-site research. Completed 2000.

Whipple Residence, Big Sky, MT - LLywellyn Architects. Completed 2007.

SELECTED UNBUILT PROJECTS:

Viewmaster 2005 , Bend, OR – PIQUE , Commissioned design.

STRAUCHAUS, Bend, OR – PIQUE , Spring 2006 construction start.

Under the Bridge, Seattle, WA – PIQUE, feasibility study/design for rehabilitation of forgotten urban site, 2005.

AWARDS AND EXHIBITIONS:

Boston Society of Architects “Honor Award” for Unbuilt Architecture.  Vertical Patio project, 2005.

Build Boston 2005 Honor Awards Exhibition hall. Vertical Patio, 2005.

’05 Next Generation Competition – Finalist for columbarium project, 2005.

Ideas in Form 8 – model exhibit by Seattle Architectural Foundation, Viewmaster 2005 and Vertical Patio exhibited, 2005.

Headlines – University of Washington’s Advisory Council exhibit.  Viewmaster 2005 exhibited, 2005.

17th Annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair – Next Generation winners and Finalists exhibited, Javits Center, New York, NY, 2005.

N.W. Concrete Association - Award for Outstanding Concrete Building Finalist.  Bond Street Plaza Building, Bend, OR.  2005.

PUBLICATIONS:

Seattle Metropolitan Magazine: Vertical Patio, May 2007

Architectural Record: Arch Record 2, April 2007

The Source Weekly: Turf Issue, March 9, 2006 pgs. 17-19.

Architecture Boston: Annual Awards Issue, January/February 2006.

Oregon Home: the Before & After Issue, September/October 2005 pgs. 72-83.

Metropolis Magazine: Acts of Remembrance, by Laurie Manfra.  August/September 2005 pgs. 96,99.

Metropolis Magazine: Rise of the Citizen Designer, byLaurie Manfra. June 2005 and July 2005 pgs 176 and 29.

Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce: Exhibit looks at work of Northwest designers, by Sam Bennett.  April 18. 2005 front page.

MSU School of Architecture: Foreign Study Program, pgs. 2,3,4. 2006

MSU School of Architecture: Architectural Review 12, front & inside cover, contents, 4th year design, 2005.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

1998                   Arch 152 - Design Fundamentals II: Lead 18 students in design fundamentals, judgment and communication skills through small scale building programs.

Arch 352 – Design 6:  Teaching Assistant for third-year studio course including individual and formal critiques and graphics instruction.

Private Tutorial: Private tutor for preparatory course for Architectural Design Oriented Student.  Responsible for course content and progress reviews. 

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