Ali is a co-founder and principal Architect at Site-Arch Inc. He is an Architect, Landscape Designer, Certified Passive House Builder, and a Gold Seal Certified for professional Construction Management Excellence Standards with the Canadian Construction Association. Ali holds a BArch (2014) and March (2016) both with distinction and was awarded the Azrieli Scholar and Faculty Choice award for his thesis titled: Post-Petropolis: Alberta after the Oil Boom. Ali’s research addresses the story of conflicting natural and artificial landscapes while engaging with multi-stakeholder views, from divinity, and Indigenous Land to human-scale interventions. He also has a background in Civil Engineering Technology (CVT) and is a Landscape designer-builder by Trade.
Further to his full-time career, Ali is a Contract Instructor at Carleton University and actively engages in independent research and international competitions. Some noteworthy accomplishments include winning first place and receiving the People’s Choice award in the Future Legacies Competition – Design for Canada’s Next 150 Years, held by The Site Magazine.
Ali’s work has been featured on KooZA/rch, The best new Architects, Act of Mapping, and The Site Magazine. His research interests revolve around science fiction, affordable housing, and real estate development.
OAA, OAQ, MRAIC, PMP, LEED AP BD+C, RELi AP
Steven is a co-founder and principal Architect at Site-Arch Inc. Steven’s interests have always been oscillating between the arts, sciences, and technology for as long as he can remember. Architecture encompasses each and serves as a pipeline for the creative and technical challenges which inspire his work.
In practice, he embraces constraints and uses them as design parameters to inform creative solutions for complex problems. He works to facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration and to develop forward-thinking design strategies that leverage data, computation, and digital fabrication to deliver high-performance architecture.
As an architect, he strives to empathize with his clients - to see their vision as they do, and to earn their confidence as a project leader and trusted advisor. As a project manager, he serves the client and project team, working to clear obstacles and maintain the scope, schedule, and cost priorities of the project.
He receives a great sense of accomplishment from helping clients transform concepts and ideas into architecture. And from rejecting shop drawings.
