Joseph William Storey[a] (July 5, 1923 – August 12, 1975) was an internationally renowned architect based in Chatham, Ontario, Canada.

[4][c] After winning $750 in a Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation competition,[1][6] he returned to his hometown of Chatham, and at the age of twenty-four he established the practice of Joseph W. Storey, Architect in the fall of 1947.

This team was joined by many other talented people through 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, such as architects and Ontario Association of Architecture members Douglas Hanley, Robert Steele, and James H. Jorden.

Joe Storey brought a level of design and technical excellence that was consistent not only to landmark buildings, but also to elementary and secondary schools, churches, band shells, senior citizen residences, industrial buildings, and to Storey’s favourite challenge, the single family home.

[4] One of Storey’s more interesting unbuilt projects of his career is his design for the conversion of four abandoned sugar beet silos on industrial lands into apartments.

Storey established a model here of translating the language of modernism to the traditional public and urban landscape of the small town.

In the latter years of his practice, he turned his artistic talents to photography,[2][13][4] and pioneered innovative photographic techniques in presentation and design stages of his work that is commonplace today.