Michael Banman is an award-winning architect with an inspired vision to see beyond the usual. As Stantec’s design director for Western Canada, he leads the design for a wide range of building types including institutional, commercial, retail, healthcare, hospitality, academic, and cultural, and scales, from urban & campus planning, large to small buildings, and installations.

An instinctive leader, Michael and his colleagues have designed spaces for the Manitoba Museum & Manitoba Centennial Centre, University of Manitoba, RRC Polytech, First Nations University of Canada, and the City of Winnipeg, as well as Centrepoint Development. Currently, his allied team of architects, engineers, and sustainability experts are working on FortWhyte Alive’s Buffalo Crossing. This all-mass timber visitor centre has achieved the CaGBC Zero Carbon Building Design Standard, is targeting Passive House Certification, and aims to be Manitoba’s most sustainable building.

Michael is teaching Professional Practice in the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Architecture. He has taught, lectured, and been a visiting critic at the University of Manitoba, RRC Polytech, Carleton University, University of Calgary, BCIT, University of British Columbia, and Texas Tech University.