About ArcAce:
-ARC!ACE is a one of a kind platform created to empower and display the work of emerging architects and designers across Canada and the world. Our magazine stems from our desire to not only provide young designers with an exciting opportunity to exhibit their work, start a conversation, expand their network, but also to challenge them to participate in new contests, projects, and designs.
These unique projects/competitions, like the other content on the platform, foster a radical change in building design. These are calls to bring people into a new mindset of living minimalist, sustainable, and as one with nature. Each of these competitions has a purpose towards this meaningful goal.
We are delighted to support and promote the coming generation. We are here “promoting your work and your talent to the point there will be No need to introduce yourself”!
Our platform, which is lead by passionate professors, architects, writers, and designers, is to increase emerging designers’ awareness, stimulate their creativity towards sustainable practices, and support them to drive the change.
ArcAce is groing fast!
It has more than 10,000 views every month and hundreds of participants, mainly in competitions.
Our Team:
Amal Wasfi is a current faculty member at the Emily Carr University, teaching architecture. She completed her master’s degree from Sala, UBC, Canada. She is a member of the American Institute of Architects, having 25 years of experience.
More than anything, Amal believes in the role of architecture in enhancing peoples’ lives and in bringing sustainable solutions to help preserve Mother Nature. She finds joy in paving paths, knowledge-sharing, and providing meaningful opportunities for students and emerging designers. Amal is the CEO of ArcAce.
Dr. Samaan Yas is an architect, researcher, and faculty. He is the former Head of the Architectural Department at the University of Diyala. He is an architecture critic, providing opinions on the quality of the latest projects, the planning policies, heritage sites, and the key factors in shaping the built environment and frame projects in their wider societal contexts.
Junfei Shi is our contributing writer and business adviser, with a master degree in Business Administration . She is an interior design graduate from the Visual College of Art and Design in Vancouver, B.C. She is currently working as a designer, providing space planning and design solutions to food store chains. Having a creative and conscious mind, she understands the value of design in our life, thus documents projects when coming across innovative interior ideas. She is passionate about penning her thoughts down to document valuable design practices and of course support emerging designers in the field.
Robyn Lee our active contributor, is a writer and a researcher with an interest and a passion for urban planning and architectural studies. She is currently pursuing a Master’s in Urban Studies at Simon Fraser University, where she will focus on how urban policies can impact residents’ quality of life. In her writing and work, she tries to draw out interesting lessons and interrogate the impacts architectural projects or designs can have in an environment.
Dr. Venus Akef is an award-winning architect and scholar. She received her Ph.D. in Architecture in 2019, and graduated with a Certificate in Historic Preservation in 2018, both from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Dr. Venus currently is a faculty member at the Department of Architecture, The University of Technology, having more than 17 years of academic experience.
Michael Agha is an enthusiastic young writer. He is hopelessly humane and nature passionate. He views the material side of civilization as a building block to help us focus on unity and the beauty of coexistence. Michael studied Art Management to promote art with a purpose. Michael enjoys documenting the human practices that respect and protect the lives of all.
