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Sonia received her Master in Architecture degree from the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto, where she was awarded the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Student Medal. She also holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto with a double major in architecture and fine art history, and a minor in visual studies. Sonia is a registered architect with the Ontario Association of Architects and has worked in offices in Toronto and Los Angeles on various award winning institutional projects, commercial interior fit-outs and residential new-builds.

Since 2017, Sonia has been involved in BEAT (Building Equality in Architecture Toronto) as an Executive member, then as the Executive Chair, and presently as an Advisory member. During her term as Chair of BEAT, Sonia led the internal visioning workshop initiative, which sought to update the group’s mandate to respond to current needs in the profession and to prepare the organization for future growth. In 2020 Sonia was awarded the Construction Canada Emerging Leader Award for her initiative in this role.

For over a decade Sonia has been actively teaching design at Daniels and the Waterloo School of Architecture. Currently, Sonia is the Daniels Design Research Internship Program coordinator, a program which bridges academic knowledge and professional practice, exposing third- and fourth-year Architectural Studies undergraduate students to multiple modes of practice, research, and interdisciplinary design.

Zachariah earned his Master of Architecture degree from the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto, receiving the Reisman Gold Medal of Design and the AIA Henry Adams Certificate. A registered architect with the Ontario Association of Architects, Zachariah spent fifteen years practicing at prominent Toronto firms, including Shim-Sutcliffe and KPMB Architects, contributing to notable award-winning residential, hospitality, and cultural projects such as Toronto’s Ace Hotel, the Allied Music Centre at Massey Hall.

Sustainability is central to his work. On Kindred Works, a portfolio converting under-used properties across Canada into attainable, climate-safe rental housing, he worked with mass timber construction, geothermal heating and cooling, and many other strategies to deliver low-carbon projects.

Zachariah has taught design at the Waterloo School of Architecture and lectured at institutions including the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, the University of Waterloo, and OCAD University.

Mahsa is an associate at IAh and a registered architect with the Ontario Association of Architects. She holds a Master of Architecture from Princeton University, where she was awarded the Suzanne Kolarik Underwood Prize for excellence in design. Prior to joining IAh, she worked at firms in New York, Toronto, and Vancouver on award-winning cultural, commercial, and residential projects. At IAh, she has served as project architect on projects across a range of scales and typologies, leading teams from early design through documentation and delivery.

She teaches design as faculty at the University of Toronto and the University of Waterloo. As an advocate for women in architecture, she serves on the executive committee of Building Equality in Architecture Toronto (BEAT), where she organizes the BEAT Talk series.