PIQUE is a collaborative architecture practice founded for the purpose of creating exceptional art and architecture interventions. Initially formed as a close group of three directors, PIQUE has evolved into an internationally recognized design practice known for thoughtful and considered design solutions that reflect the influences of our clients, our design professionals and our growing team of international design collaborators. Architecture is about experience. More than the framing of space and the articulation of form, architecture helps choreograph life’s experiences, and we consider this a paramount concern when we design our projects. Just as the word ‘pique’ means to stimulate or capture one’s attention, we see every project - regardless of scale - as an opportunity to explore the ways in which the specific architecture response to your brief will enhance your life experience. Fundamentally, buildings provide shelter and meet program requirements. For us, a building will only be considered successful when it provides some unexpected delight, and contributes exceptionally to its place, when it converts opportunity into reality in imaginative ways and far exceeds those fundamental requirements.

Design collective between CVI-architectures, Archiled and PIQUEarchitecture. We are a combined think tank focused on public market competitions, art interventions and private commissions.

An architectural design studio in the School of Architecture’s Graduate Program being taught by Seattle Architect (and MSU Alumnus) Peter Jahnke of the firm PIQUE LLC is showcasing the students’ work in Cheever Hall Gallery until the next week.The studio, based on “communication and (re)presentation, has been engaging the instructor and the students using mostly internet-based technological means, such as webcam, email, text, and youtube posts, and not only during the scheduled times of the course but almost on continuous basis. The premise of the studio is the understanding that the realization of architectural propositions is the result of effective collaboration and communication between colleagues, clients, and consultants and in the academic milieu between and among instructors and students. Furthermore, the studio emphasizes the understanding that collaboration can only be effective if communication is effective and unaffected by the physical distances that separate the parties as technology overcomes the past difficulties to make communication more deliberate, segmented, and thoughtful.Peter Jahnke will deliver the fifth and the last lecture in the School of Architecture Fall Lecture Series : “Urban and Rural” this Friday, at 5:30 pm in 339 Leon Johnson.

Competition project manager (WTO Geneva).

Project designer for Bitforms Digital Gallery in NYC and Café Visafslag in the Netherlands as well as design and graphics work on various projects.

Design and management of international design competitions. Schematic design, rendering and production for various projects.