
Ali Navidbakhsh
Contract Instructor
AliNavidBakhsh@cmail.carleton.ca
Ali Navidbakhsh, OAA, LEED Green Associate, RELi AP, is a co-founder and principal Architect at Site-Arch Inc. a private practice operating in Ontario and Québec. He is also an Architect at +VG (The Ventin Group Ltd.) in Ottawa.
He holds a BArch (2014) and March (2016) both with distinction and was awarded the Azrieli Scholar and faculty choice award for his thesis titled: Post-Petropolis: Alberta after the Oil Boom. Ali’s research addresses the story of conflicting natural and artificial landscapes, while engaging with multi-stakeholder views, from divinity, Indigenous Land to human-scale interventions.
Ali has worked at Architecture offices in Toronto, Ottawa, and Lisbon Portugal. During his studies at ASAU, He also worked as a research assistant and a teaching assistant for both undergraduate and graduate courses.
Further to his full-time career, Ali actively engages in independent research and international competitions. Some noteworthy accomplishments include winning first place and receiving the people’s choice award in the Future Legacies Competition – Design for Canada’s Next 150 Years, held by The Site Magazine.
Ali’s work has been featured on The best new Architects, Act of Mapping, KooZA/rch and The Site Magazine. His research interests revolve around science fiction, affordable housing, and real estate development.
Education
MArch – Carleton University, 2016
BArch – Carleton University, 2014
Civil Eng. Tech – Seneca College, 2009
Courses
ARCS 2106: Studio 3 – Winter 2023 term
Publications
Future Legacies – Canada’s Next 150 Years, by The Site Magazine
https://www.thesitemagazine.com/competition
Places, Forms and Memories of Grief in Contemporary Cities
https://in-bo.unibo.it/article/view/7852
Post-Petropolis: Alberta after the Oil Boom
https://curve.carleton.ca/0f45ddfb-07ce-4370-9ac7-85dbafd62ec5
Faculty Choice Award
https://alinavid.ca/faculty-choice-award
Theatre Production Workshop – Water into Wine