Omar Gandhi (BEDS’03, MArch’05) is a Canadian architect raised in Brampton, Ontario currently practicing and residing in both Halifax and Toronto.

After studying in the Regional Arts program at Mayfield Secondary School (Caledon) and then the inaugural Architectural Studies Program at the University of Toronto, Omar moved to Halifax, where he earned his Master’s degree in 2005. After graduation Omar worked for Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects, Young + Wright Architects and MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects, working on several key projects including Manitoba Hydro, Two Hulls, the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University and the Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum- Nano Centre at the University of Waterloo during his early years. Gandhi started his own design studio in 2010 and became a registered architectural practice in 2012.

Rabbit Snare Gorge

Gandhi’s practice, Omar Gandhi Architect, operates out of two small studios – one in downtown Halifax and the other in Parkdale, Toronto. The firm’s early years were subject of much local, national, and international publication – having been awarded 2014’s Canada Council for the Arts Professional Prix de Rome, listed in Wallpaper*  Magazine’s 2014 ‘Architects Directory’, and named as one of the Architectural League of New York’s ‘Emerging Voices’ in its first few years of existence. 2018 marks not only the firm’s 8^th year, but arguably its most exciting yet.  Omar Gandhi Architect has been named as the recipient of a Governor General’s Medal in Architecture for Rabbit Snare Gorge (a project designed in collaboration with Design Base 8 out of New York City), and was the only Canadian firm to be named within the 2018 Design Vanguard – a list of the globe’s top emerging firms. The Fall will bring about a new chapter and a third city of residence for Omar himself as he begins his appointment as the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor in Architectural Design at Yale School of Architecture.