Rami Bebawi (OAQ MRAIC RBQ) is a co-founder of KANVA, an architecture practice founded with Tudor Radulescu (OAQ LEED PA Fellow MRAIC) in 2003. Rami is an active participant in the local, national and international architectural scene, leading many panel discussions, speaking at conferences, participating in juries, mentoring master’s students, and engaging in design festivals and outreach programs. KANVA is made up of passionate architects whose work is at the forefront of thinking, imagining, drawing both Art and Architecture. Leading KANVA into its 20th year, Rami remains a dynamic leader who is continually pushing the creative potential of every project. He believes in the promotion of cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary sharing of experiences and knowledge, to create rich narratives and sensitive approaches for every project. KANVA demonstrates architecture’s transformative power through a range of disciplines and scales. The team treats each project as an opportunity to reshape the built environment through story-telling. Each project is engaging, memorable and responsive to human experience and addresses the contemporary complexities of culture, economy, sustainability and innovation. The collective’s vanguard work has won many prestigious awards, including the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Emerging Architectural Practice Award, several Awards of Excellence from RAIC Canadian Architect, Order of Architects of Quebec, and Grands Prix du Design Awards. More recently, they were awarded the professional Prix de Rome by the Canada Council for the Arts and the World Architecture Festival’s ‘Experimental – Future Projects’ award. KANVA has also been featured in multiple international publications.