Alex Josephson is a Toronto-born architect and the founder of PARTISANS, an award-winning architecture and design studio incorporated in Toronto in 2013. Growing up with an early affinity for tactile art and drawing, Josephson pursued architecture against the advice of those around him, treating it as a form of rebellion that ultimately gave him direction and purpose.
He studied architecture at the University of Waterloo, one of the most rigorous programs in Canada at the time, and spent five formative years in Rome working at the internationally acclaimed studio of Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas. That period deepened his understanding of the intersection between architecture, politics, and culture. He later completed graduate studies through the University of Waterloo's Rome program and received the New York Prize Fellowship at the Van Alen Institute, the only Canadian to have received that distinction.
Upon returning to Toronto, Josephson co-founded PARTISANS and built the practice from the ground up, taking on installations, residential projects, and eventually landmark commissions including the Bar Raval interior and design work for Union Station. PARTISANS has since grown into a globally recognized studio. The firm was selected to design the RBC Amphitheatre at Ontario Place in collaboration with Gensler, and recently won the commission to design the Ontario Building Workers Memorial at Queen's Park, unveiled on April 28, 2026, the National Day of Mourning, by the Premier of Ontario.
Josephson is a lecturer at the University of Toronto's Daniels Faculty of Architecture, and a recognized voice on the future of cities, design, and culture.
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