Oliver Frayne





200 University Ave W
Waterloo, Canada

offrayne@uwaterloo.ca
548 384 6096



My design work emphasises multidisciplinary across a variety of scales, a result of my own design education as an architect and urban planner.

In professional work, Master’s studios, and my teaching, projects are enriched by attention to site histories and contexts, material sensibilities, and fostering interactivity for all users.

This portfolio is a selection of design work that reflects a versatile set of approaches and skills that I bring to architecture and teaching. All my design work has been experimental, iterative, and collaborative, working between drawing and modelling (and a bit of scripting!)
CV





Education
PhD Planning
University of Waterloo
2024-present

Critical Urbanisms
Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät
Universität Basel
2023-2024

MArch Architecture
University of British Columbia
2017-2021

BES Planning (Honours, Co-op)
Urban Design specialization
University of Waterloo
2012-2017




Employment Project Manager, Designer
Jill Anholt Studio
Vancouver, Canada
2021-2023

Architectural Intern
Leckie Studio
Vancouver, Canada
2019

Planning Intern
CDP
Perth, Australia
2016

Urban Design Intern
Dillon Consulting
Kitchener, Canada
2016

Marketing and Comms Intern
Collective Responsibility
Shanghai, China
2015

Student Planner
City of Waterloo
Waterloo, Canada
2015




Teaching
Instructor




Teaching
Teaching Assistant
Adjunct Lecturer
Urban Design Seminar
School of Planning
University of Waterloo
2025

Graduate Teaching Assistant
PLAN 107: How Plans Are Made
School of Planning
University of Waterloo
2026

Head Graduate Teaching Assistant
PLAN 103: Planning Governance and Admin
School of Planning
University of Waterloo
2025

Head Graduate Teaching Assistant
PLAN 261: Urban and Metropolitan Planning and Development
School of Planning
University of Waterloo
2025

Graduate Teaching Assistant
PLAN 107: How Plans Are Made
School of Planning
University of Waterloo
2024




Competencies
AutoCAD
Adobe Creative Suite
Rhino
Enscape
SketchUp
QGIS
Grasshopper

Drafting, rendering, model-making, hand-drawing, photography, videography

English (Fluent)
German (A1.2)
Swedish (Beginner)




Research
coming soon




Awardscoming soon









Last Updated 26.1.9