Omar Gandhi Architects

Practice Statement

At Omar Gandhi Architects, physical model making is a foundational part of the design process. It is a tactile discipline that bridges conceptual thinking and built form. The Halifax studio is home to an active exhibition and model-making space that serves both as a workshop and exhibition space for our past models. We ensure that the craft of model making remains central to how the studio tests ideas, communicates spatial relationships, and honours the specificity of each project's place and material character.

This commitment to physical models has extended naturally into our exhibitions and design practice. During the winter of 2023–2024, the studio celebrated the opening of its first major exhibition at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, showcasing images and models from the last decade of practice, including a centrally located enclosure dedicated to the competition-winning model of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Most recently, the Crafted by Place exhibition, held at the Architektur Galerie Berlin in October 2025, featured wooden models crafted by Chad Jamieson, Luke Stock, and González Modellbau, presenting drawings, models, and sketches of built and speculative buildings that illustrate the broad spectrum of our practice. Together, these exhibitions demonstrate how model making at OG is not only an internal design tool, but a means of sharing the studio's values of craft, context, and material honesty with audiences around the world.