architect reimagined.

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 creation in creating playful imaginative spaces, experiences and environments for fun as well as research, exploration and implementation of theories and topics such as social justice, intersectionality, queer theory, expression, emotion, embodiment, liberation, sexuality, geometry, metaphysics, dreams, mysticism and the interdimensional through storytelling, spatial performance art and architecture art. Mediums incorporated are 3D computer modelling, CADD - computer assisted design/drafting, digital art, AI, illustration, animation & film. 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.

She currently works as a Senior Architect at a large Canadian Architecture firm in Toronto with a focus in healthcare, is a founding member & committee advisor for Coles House Project - a nonprofit organization & house museum in Buffalo, New York, an international visiting architecture guest critic and a board of director member for East End Arts in Toronto.