Aleph-Bau is experimenting with poetics of architecture in anything and everything from materials to cities. 

The studio is based in Toronto and operates in collaboration with artists, engineers, thinkers, writers, planners, lawyers, builders and craftsmen engaged in critical design and construction. Using interior spaces, buildings, cityscapes, furniture, objects and installations as medium, its mission is to amplify the sensory, imaginative and intellectual relationship to the environment.

Aleph-Bau is directed by Delnaz Yekrangian. Prior to starting Aleph-Bau, Delnaz worked at OMA (Rotterdam) and SOM (San Francisco) following her internship at office dA (Boston). She has had an instrumental role in award winning architecture and urban design projects in North America, Europe, UK, the Middle East and China. Her professional experience extends from re-use of heritage buildings and abandoned sites (Commonwealth Institute, London, at OMA) to marriage of tall structures with urban infrastructure (Transbay Tower, San Francisco, at SOM).

Delnaz teaches design studios and seminars at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Waterloo and writes on architecture and pedagogy for the Memar magazine in Iran.

She has undertaken extensive research on revitalization of underutilized urban spaces including deteriorating historic cities of Iran while studying at Beheshti University in Tehran, University of Toronto, and Harvard GSD.