Sifei Mo

Sifei Mo is an architectural designer, researcher, and educator whose work explores the intersections of design, urbanism, and curation. She holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Michigan and an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Design from the University of Toronto. Her practice engages with adaptive reuse, housing, and placemaking.

Sifei’s research investigates how architecture can address issues of housing, community resilience, and cultural identity. With a focus on Shenzhen’s urban villages, she examines how informal practices intersect with urban policy, challenge conventional aesthetics, and contribute to more inclusive forms of city-making. She is co-editor of Urban Village Coexistence (Shanghai Culture Publishing House, 2024) and the author of numerous essays, including “The Hybrid Building: A Progressive Understanding of Adaptive Reuse of Architecture in Urban Village” (Architectural Journal, 2024) and “Compact Makes More: From Spatial Order to the Right to Lead a Lifestyle” (Future House, 2024). Her projects, such as Gold Cage, a social incubator in Shenzhen, and House 77, a multigenerational renovation in Toronto, bridge design with advocacy to reimagine spaces for collective life.

Sifei has contributed to multiple editions of the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture and has coordinated exhibitions at the University of Toronto’s Daniels Faculty, including Towards Home, Le Corbusier: Models, and Resolutions for the Antarctic. She is interested in architecture’s capacity to foster new forms of coexistence, and in teaching she emphasizes equity, critical inquiry, and the social responsibilities of design.

• ARCH 192 - Design Studio
  • Taught in 2024, 2025
• ARCH 193 - Design Studio
  • Taught in 2022
• ARCH 292 - Design Studio
  • Taught in 2021, 2022
• ARCH 293 - Design Studio
  • Taught in 2023
• ARCH 392 - Design Studio
  • Taught in 2025

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