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architect of expression: architecture & expression

Sapphira (she/they) is an Ontario licensed Architect (OAA) with over 20 years of industry experience working at a variety of award-winning architecture firms across Toronto and led a solo architectural practice from 2018 to 2024. She is also a visual & performance artist, burlesque artist, activist and disruptor of convention. Her multidisciplinary artistic background inspires creating, exploring and journeying to develop a body of research pertaining to human expression, sexuality and gender in transcendental interdimensional realms of architectural spaces & environments through storytelling by way of imaginative spatial art performances & architecture art with a variety of combined mediums, media & writing.

Mediums incorporated are 3D computer modelling, CADD - computer assisted design/drafting, digital art, artificial intelligence (AI), illustration, photography, animation, film & dance arts. She is currently learning and exploring extended reality (XR) (= virtual reality (VR) + augmented reality (AR)) and gaming applications for alternative architectural environments in the world wide web realm.

Past areas of focus in architecture include designing, production of design & construction drawings/documents, project management, procurement and construction administering of schools, healthcare, single & multi-residential, retail, transit booth prototypes & stations, corporate & government office interiors and libraries from conception to completion. Her creative passion projects have ranged from performing to art direction including costume designing and fashion styling for music videos or creative photoshoots and designing for branding & visual identity.

She currently works as a Senior Architect at a large Canadian Architecture firm in Toronto with a focus in healthcare architecture, is a founding member & committee advisor for Coles House Project - a nonprofit civic engagement organization in a historical designated house & studio in Buffalo, New York designed by her former mentor & Architect Father – the late legendary Architect Robert Traynham Coles, is an international visiting architecture guest critic and a board of director member for East End Arts in Toronto.

studio@sapphira.ca

sapphira ∞

b.a.s., m.arch., oaa architect

substack: writing

toronto, ontario [canada]