Omar Gandhi, a graduate of the University of Toronto’s Honours, Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies program, has been profiled as “one of Canada’s most exciting emerging designers" in the Globe and Mail.

The 36-year-old Halifax-based architect is a featured speaker at Interior Design Show in Toronto on January 23, and is planning to open a satellite office in Canada’s largest city.

Gandhi is a tribute to the success of the Daniels Faculty’s undergraduate program. In 2014, he was awarded the Prix de Rome and named among the world’s top 20 young architects by Wallpaper magazine.

Writes the Globe and Mail’s Design Editor Danny Sinopoli:

Gandhi joins the steadily growing ranks of elite Atlantic Canadian architects who are boldly contemporizing East Coast building forms, redefining the region’s design aesthetics in the process. “My work certainly isn’t unique, nor does it aspire to be,” Gandhi says with some of that inherited Maritime modesty, citing others, such as Halifax master Brian MacKay-Lyons, Newfoundland-born Todd Saunders and New Brunswick’s Acre Architects as those who have produced “incredible regionally inspired work” before and alongside him. There is, however, one significant difference between Gandhi and many of his East Coast colleagues: Having been born in Toronto and raised in Brampton, he is essentially an outsider who learned and subsequently mastered the regional vernacular, then reinterpreted it. Such sensitivity to setting isn’t commonplace. And it will serve Gandhi well as he expands his practice to other parts of Canada and beyond.

The full article is available on the Globe and Mail’s website.