Hart Veritas Architecture
The Studio

Architecture as a quiet practice.

Founder & Principal Designer

Meaghan Hartgenger

Registered Architect · AIBC (Architectural Institute of British Columbia)

I believe a space — whether a home, a workplace, or a building shaped for the public — should work quietly in your favour, supporting the rhythm of your days rather than asking you to bend around it.

I'm a residential and commercial designer with a deep love for the slower, more considered side of architecture. My practice spans years of experience in architectural design across both residential and commercial projects, alongside years of work as a commercial designer for developers — shaping multi-family, mixed-use, and tenant-improvement projects from concept through delivery.

My passion lies in shaping spaces that blend beauty and function in meaningful ways — places that feel inevitable once you're inside them, even though every decision behind them was carefully weighed. Whether designing a private home or a commercial environment, my focus is on efficient yet elegant design and pragmatic, thoughtful solutions that recognise — and maximise — the experience of entering and moving through a space, the scale and proportion of its rooms, and the relationship between those rooms, their surroundings, and natural light.

As the founder of Hart Veritas Architecture, I work closely with a small number of residential and commercial clients each year so that every project receives the attention it deserves. In collaboration with trusted builders, developers, makers, and consultants, I bring together a love of natural materials, considered proportion, and a quiet contemporary sensibility — designing places that are honest, restrained, and built for the long term.

Principle

Site First

Every project begins with the land — its orientation, its memory, its weather.

Principle

Material Honesty

Stone, timber, plaster, and steel — used as themselves, allowed to age.

Principle

Lived-in Beauty

Beauty must serve life: how a family gathers, how light falls at four o'clock.

"We don't design buildings. We design the way a place will feel for the next hundred years."

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