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Patrick A. 0. Stanigar was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1944. He lived there until the age of nine when he migrated to New York City in the United States of America.
His early education which began at Knox College in Jamaica was continued in the New York City Public School system. At thirteen years old he entered the High School of Music & Arts in New York as an Art Student. In his final years at Music & Art he majored in Architecture and continued his training at Pratt Institute's School of Architecture. After graduating from Pratt, he worked in New York for three years as a Draftsman, Designer and Project Architect.
In 1971 Mr. Stanigar returned to Jamaica to begin what has turned out to be an extremely rich experience in Architecture and Design. He worked for a short time with the firm McMorris Sibley Robinson and then started, along with three other Architects, the firm of Design Collaborative. In 1976, after five years, he left that firm to work with Jamaica's Ministry of Education and its Urban Development Corporation. This experience in working with Government was interrupted by two years of work in Trinidad and Tobago. In 1981 while still based in Trinidad, he was asked by the Urban Development Corporation to return to Jamaica to undertake the design of the Jamaica Conference Center. After that building's completion in 1983 he stayed on at the Urban Development Corporation as its Senior Architect until entering again into Private Practice in January of 1986.
In his 32 years of work in the Caribbean, Mr. Stanigar has been the Architect for a large number and wide variety of projects. His experience is characteristic of work in a small community in that, rather than specializing, it calls upon the Architect to play different roles over a very wide range of Projects. Thus, the list of works completed over those years includes private houses, low cost housing, institutional buildings, industrial buildings, landscape design, urban design and town planning projects. Throughout all of this he has maintained his commitment to Art and has on a number of occasions participated in the Annual National Art Exhibition. In 1989, for his contributions to Architecture, he was granted admission to Jamaica's Order of Distinction.
In addition to his professional and artistic pursuits, Mr. Stanigar has continuously been involved in active community service and has been among other things a member of the Board of Metropolitan Parks and Markets, Dean of the Caribbean School of Architecture at the University of Technology, Jamaica and is currently a member of the Board of the Kingston City Centre Improvement Company.