Successful architecture enhances user experience, whether those improvements are noticeable or imperceptible.

Darren brings extensive experience leading diverse, award-winning projects across a range of scales and sectors. His mix of public-sector expertise, private development insight, and values-based design leadership has guided high-performing teams and complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives.

At Kasian, Darren will lead project procurement and management within the multifamily, commercial, and transit sectors.

Known for bringing clarity to complexity, Darren earns the trust of clients, peers, and project partners through a thoughtful and collaborative approach. He also contributes to the design community through research, public speaking, and industry engagement.

My Sectors: Transportation; Commercial Mixed Use; Residential.

My Services: Architecture.

We asked, Darren Polanski answered:

What inspires you?

“I’m inspired by the tension between constraint and creativity. When a project pushes against the limits of the expected, it invites a poetic kind of problem-solving — where design becomes both inventive and purposeful.”

What makes a great design?

“Great design emerges when intention meets emotion — when a project enhances daily life while evoking something poetic and fleeting. It’s in that balance between function and feeling that design becomes truly memorable.”