Afsah Ali

Afsah approaches landscape architecture through a social lens. While completing an undergraduate degree in architecture at the University of Toronto, she observed a disconnect between designers and the people who would go on to inhabit the spaces being designed. Her MLA work at the University of Toronto has trained her to remedy disconnection through design. Beginning her MLA during COVID, Afsah was sent on foot to explore the landscape around Brampton, Ontario, where she grew up. It was through these walks that she began to see places she was intimately familiar with in a new way, discovering new things on each expedition and solidifying her passion for landscape architecture. Afsah strives to create clarity and accessibility that reach far beyond ADA standards, combining ecology and social connection to make landscapes easily understood and experienced.

In her free time, Afsah skateboards, paints, draws, sketches, and explores different states around the US. She is also the go-to cake decorator for her family and friends and is a self-proclaimed chocolate chip cookie connoisseur. In the New Haven Studio, she is hard at work on the Williams College Museum of Art and a few ongoing residential projects.