Sandra Iskandar, OAA, MRAIC, rejoined the GBCA team in 2023, after a decade of challenging architectural ventures including principal for her own firm (Sandra Iskandar Architect) and several years with the Pan American Games Infrastructure Department preparing for the games held in Toronto in 2015. These experiences have exposed her to a spectrum of projects in the public, private and non-for-profit sector.  Sandra’s personal interests in culture and adaptive re-use – where the integration of contemporary architectural expression is carefully weaved into the historic urban fabric – have heavily influenced her professional development.   Some of her adaptive re-use projects include the Cobourg Physiotherapy Clinic, Ontario Water Centre’s Clear Water Farm, no9 Gardens, the Spadina Museum Re-restoration project, the Parry Sound Performing Art Centre, and the Tyendinaga Language Centre.

Sandra’s previous GBCA projects include the design and contract administration for the Bruce County Museum and Archives (Southampton), the Whitby Station Gallery and Toronto’s National Ballet School.

Sandra holds a professional degree in Architecture from Carleton University, where she was an Associate Professor for first year Architectural Design Studio.  She is currently the lead bilingual architectural educator for an award-winning program called Imagining my Sustainable Community held by a non-for-profit organization no9 Contemporary Art and Environment.  Volunteer work includes serving as the Vice Chair of the Hamilton and Burlington Society of Architects, being the treasurer of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario, Hamilton Chapter and acting as director and committee chair with the Friends of the Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives.

She is fluent both in French and English.