Jeffrey Staates is a Principal and Senior Landscape Architect leading a wide range of detailed landscape architecture, urban design, master planning, and implementation projects for PFS Studio. His diverse design background includes a degree in architecture, and practice in interior design, planning, and landscape architecture. With over 30 years of professional experience, Jeffrey has been actively involved in the design and detailing of public spaces for a broad range of urban design and open space assignments. He maintains a particular sensitivity to context and scale, and to the experiential qualities of each project. He is committed to excellence in design and design detail as well as the delivery of innovative and practical design solutions within the boundaries of time and budget.
Jeffrey has led a number of the firm’s most complex public realm design assignments in Vancouver and across PFS Studio’s diverse portfolio of work. He was the Principal in Charge and Landscape Lead on Statlew (North Shore Innovation District), the Principal in Charge on the Zibi Chaudiere Island Public Realm Plan in Ottawa, and the Project Landscape Architect on the West Don Lands in Toronto. Jeffrey has extensive international experience and was the design director of PFS Asia’s Shanghai office, winning the first competition of the prestigious Huang Pu Riverfront Redevelopment. Jeffrey frequently leads landscape and urban design integration workshops as a special advisor, such as for the Pattullo Bridge replacement project and the Sapperton East Columbia Great Street initiative in New Westminster, BC to integrate greenways and complete streets into existing urban fabric.
Jeffrey retired in 2025.