MJMA is a diverse multidisciplinary team of designers, with five Partners, six Associates, and four Directors of Specialty Work. Our interdisciplinary firm of 60 is led by the five equal partners, Viktors Jaunkalns, David Miller, Andrew Filarski, Robert Allen, and Ted Watson. Having up to 30 years of close collaboration, this group has forged a recognizable, shared, and consistent aesthetic and social vision for architecture. The firm’s projects are located across the country and expanding internationally with increasing formal international recognition of design excellence. The core community-based typology has evolved over the last ten years establishing further delineated expertise in Post-Secondary Academic and Library realms. Into the future, the focus of the firm’s leadership is to continue to evolve and elevate a consistent and rigorous design approach while expanding our reach into new program types and markets. We look to maintain and strengthen the delivery of high quality architecture and client and user satisfaction, while continually innovating and defining the benchmarks for new social and community spaces of our future.

MJMA (MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects) was founded in 1988 by John MacLennan, former Senior Partner at Sperry MacLennan Architects and by Viktors Jaunkalns and David Miller, then former Senior Associates with A.J. Diamond & Partners. The firm started with the competition-winning award of the Grand River Recreation Complex in Kitchener Waterloo. This first project went on to win the 1988 Canadian Architect Grand Jury Prize Award and its associated cash prize helped to sustain a fledgling three-person practice to continue on a path of design excellence within the aquatic and community recreation project type. Andrew Filarski and Robert Allen joined the firm as original staff members in 1989 and 1990 respectively, with Ted Watson joining in 1996. The firm continued to innovate and lead advancement and definition of the project type, growing a large portfolio of sport, recreation, community and academic work within Ontario. In 2009, with the retirement of John MacLennan, Andrew, Robert, and Ted joined as partners, establishing the firm’s current leadership structure.