Omar Gandhi
architectural Firms in Ontario, California, United States of America
Omar Gandhi Architect is a Canadian architectural firm established in 2010, with two small studios located in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Toronto, Ontario. The firm is known for its work blending contemporary architectural style with rural vernacular influences, and for sensitivity to the natural landscape of Canada’s Atlantic coast, where the majority of the work is found.
They are viewed as one of Canada's notable young architects. The firm has received accolades for its contemporary Maritime architecture. Omar Gandhi Architect has received the Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture from the Canada Council for the Arts in 2014, a nomination for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) in 2016 and a Governor General’s Medal in Architecture for Rabbit Snare Gorge in 2018.
History
Omar Gandhi, the founder of Omar Gandhi Architect is a Canadian architect currently living and working in Halifax and Toronto. He originally grew up in Brampton, a Toronto suburb, and studied in a Regional Arts program at Mayfield Secondary School in Caledon, located north of Brampton. Later in his academic years, he earned his undergraduate degrees in the Architectural Studies Program at University of Toronto and at Dalhousie University. He continued his studies at Dalhousie University where he earned his master's degree in 2015 and taught as a sessional instructor at the School of Architecture and Planning at Dalhousie. His teaching career continued at the Yale School of Architecture in architectural design as Louis I. Kahn visiting assistant professor for a semester in the 2018–2019 academic year.
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