In 2012, Partners Andrew and Jodi Batay-Csorba brought their vast international professional experience back home to Canada, where they have since developed a defined architectural response to the design tradition unique to the region. 

Batay-Csorba Architects (BCA) is an architecture and interior design studio that combines research and practice to create progressive projects across all scales. What our projects (and clients) have in common is a desire to create something extraordinary. Whether a home, retail store, ballet school, museum or a skyscraper, our projects all start with a critical eye, a question of “what if” and a curiosity to explore. Our projects are never alike, being less about formulaic style and more about restless innovation, boundary pushing and delight. 

At BCA, we are committed to architecture as a place where ideas find expression. Our work evolves through exploration; distilling context, client aspirations, historical reference, typology, and materiality into a project concept that conveys a clear project vision and tells a story about our clients. This concept unifies the project and informs decisions at every scale of the project, from the architecture, to the interiors, furniture, landscape, infrastructural systems, signage, and branding. 

We take our clients on a truly unique design journey, a process of discovery to create something extraordinary and unexpected, yet which truly reflects the client’s pragmatic requirements and aspirations, translating them into a project concept, architectural forms and user experiences.


We challenge premeditated ideas about function and performance. We rethink standard typologies in search for improved alternatives. We seek to be contextually responsive yet evolve into something altogether new. We explore movement and materiality to create intensified, pronounced—even ornamental—elements designed with a meticulous and purposeful in-your-face refinement. We look for spatial opportunities to evoke positive sensory responses such as joy, delight, and pleasure derived from the smallest details to grand spaces and experiences. We employ volume, geometry, light, scale, materiality, and texture, to create atmospherically rich spaces that elicit an emotional response. This design process results in engaging, expressive, and dynamic spaces that are original and unique, as exemplified in our diverse collection of contemporary work. 

Our expertise comes from designing, managing, and executing over 96 internationally celebrated large-scale projects across the globe. Previous work experience includes leadership roles at award winning firms such as Frank Gehry, Morphosis and Gensler. This track record, coupled with a deep knowledge of building design, detailing and fabrication techniques brings value to each and every client.


Jodi Batay-Csorba
Founding Partner, M Arch, B Arch, OAA, MRAIC, LEED AP

Jodi Batay-Csorba is a partner at BCA with over 18 years of professional expereince. She is a registered Architect, member of the Ontario Association of Architects, Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and a USGBC LEED Accredited Professional.

Working across a range of scales, Jodi ensures BCA’s design vision is carried through to every detail. She is largely responsible for the interiors and detailing of projects. With a passion for creating spaces that evoke emotional responses such as delight, joy, and surprise, she employs a strategy-led and research-based design process that connects concept to experience. Jodi is an active member of the architectural community and lectures widely at institutions across Canada, the US, Panama and New Zealand.

 Jodi received a Master in Architecture degree from the University of California, Los Angeles for which she was recognized with Advanced Placement and Distinction, the Franklin D. Israel Memorial Design Fellowship and the AIA LA 2x8 Award which is given annually to two graduating March students in California. She also received a highly awarded Bachelor of Science in Architecture degree from Lawrence Technological University in Michigan and an Architectural Technology degree from St. Clair College in Ontario.

Prior to founding BCA, Jodi has worked at a number of prominent firms as a Lead Designer, Project Architect and Project Manager including Gehry Partners, Morphosis, Predock Frane Architects, and Gensler in Los Angeles. At these offices Jodi’s work has won dozens of awards, namely Club Nokia with Gensler an AIA/LA Design Award and Habitat 15 with Predock Frane Architects an AIA/LA Design Award.   

Andrew Batay-Csorba
Founding Partner, M Arch, B Arch, OAA, MRAIC 

Andrew Batay-Csorba is a partner at BCA with over 20 years of professional experience. He is a registered Architect, member of the Ontario Association of Architects, and Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.

With an ability to jump from details to broad concepts,  Andrewensures BCA’s design vision is executed with rigor and precisionwithout losing sight of a project’s greater contribution to the urbancontext. His strong understanding of the technical aspects ofconstruction combines with a passion for innovative material researchto produce expertly-crafted projects embedded with thoughtfuldesign logic. He teaches and lectures locally and internationally,including at the University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, Ryerson University, Cornell University, UCLA, USC, and Sci-Arc.

Andrew received a Master in Architecture degree from the University of California, Los Angeles for which he was recognized with Advanced Placement and Distinction, the Franklin D. Israel Memorial Design Fellowship and the AIA LA 2x8 Award which is given annually to two graduating March students in California. He also received a highly awarded Bachelor of Science in Architecture degree from Lawrence Technological University in Michigan.

Prior to founding BCA, Andrew worked under the direction of Pritzker-prize laureate Thom Mayne at Morphosis, where he led and managed over twenty projects in Canada, US, UAE, Saudi Arabia, China, Spain, South America and Australlia. His project expertise includes museums, schools, high rise commercial/ residential, hospitality, residential and transportation projects.  

Awards and Recognition

2020 Best of 2020: Houses of the Year, Azure

2020 Best of Canada Award, Canadian Interiors

2020 Designing Canada Interiors Award, Globe & Mail

2018 P/a Award

2018 OAA Design Excellence AwardRecipient

2018 MCHAP:Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize for Emerging Architecture Finalist

2018 Best of Canada Award and Project of the Year

2017 OAA Design Excellence Award finalist 

2017 Interior Design Magazine’s 40 @Forty Top International Interior Design Offices,

2016 Canadian Architect Award

2015 Canadian Architect Award

2015 Twenty and Change Next Generation Award.

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