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I'm a SHEEEP, so can you

Reza Nik (he/they) is the founding director of SHEEEP - a licensed architect, artist, educator and a community builder based in Toronto, Canada. Reza has a background in Art History and he is an Assistant Professor in the Teaching Stream at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Architecture where he has been teaching since 2017. He is also an adjunct professor at Waterloo School of Architecture. Disrupting the traditional architectural processes and institutions is at the forefront of his pedagogy and practice. In 2024 he co-founded SHEEEP.school as a collectively run alternative space for the exchange of knowledge based out of their multi-functional ever-evolving space called BAAA! (Back Alley for Art & Architecture).

Prior to founding SHEEEP, Reza worked with experimental practices like Coop Himmelb(l)au in Vienna & with various more traditional architectural studios in Barcelona, Buenos Aires & Toronto along with design-build projects in India and Argentina. The social impact of Architecture is something he has been investigating for over a decade.

Reza is also one of the founding members of the Toronto chapter of the Architecture Lobby, an organization advocating for labor rights for architectural workers and encouraging more critical discourse within the profession.