Director and founder, Anya Moryoussef Architect

A registered architect with over 15 years of experience, Anya has a broad portfolio of published and award-winning designs.

Anya founded her practice in 2014. Prior to that, she was the first named Associate at superkül, one of Canada’s leading design practices, where she was project architect on several internationally recognized and award-winning projects, including Steelcase Worklife and Compass House. Anya also spent several formative years at Sarah Wigglesworth Architects (London, UK), where she was a key member of the design team for the RIBA award-winning Sandal Magna Primary School.

Anya’s work is driven by a strong interest in the reinvention of typology and the poetics of space. This approach, enacted in earlier lighting and installation projects, was crystallized in her Master of Architecture thesis, which earned her the prestigious Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) Medal. These interests have also been explored in many projects since, whether it’s working through texture and material, light and reflection, or in related fields such as literary fiction (with the publication of two short stories on architecture by non-architects) or archival research.

Since 2014, Anya has been on faculty at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture, her alma mater, and previously taught design studio (with Sarah Wigglesworth) at the Bergen School of Architecture in Norway. She is a regular guest critic at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture and Design at the University of Toronto and the Ryerson School of Interior Design, and is a mentor to OAA Intern Architects.