Ja Architecture Studio works at the point where architectural formalism collides with the city. Its office occupies a former convenience store in the Queen West neighborhood of Toronto a district of Victorian worker housing that has been remade by generations of DIYers and builders.
Here, partners Nima Javidi, 46, and Behnaz Assadi, 44, who run the studio with associate Kyle O’Brien, design, make models out of wood and concrete, and hold court on the corner patio, surrounded by the domestic disorder of the street. “Our work is driven by two themes,” says Javidi. “One of them is our pure interest in architectural form. And the other is our observation, as citizens, that the city is not so much about architecture.”
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