Alba Zagorcani

Alba Zagorcani is a skilled architect with significant experience designing and managing residential projects of varying scales and types. From mid-rise and high-rise buildings to condominium and rental developments, Alba is well versed in how to deliver successful residential projects for clients and the people who inhabit them.

Born in Albania, Alba first became interested in architecture when her father, an engineer, brought home books on Italian architecture from his work trips. She ultimately pursued architecture as her profession, inspired by its unique position at the intersection of art and the exact sciences.

Since arriving at KPMB in 2021, Alba has proven to be an effective project leader due to the breadth of her capabilities, including her refined design sensibility and technical proficiency. She is a skilled manager of internal project teams and a constructive collaborator with clients and consultants.

Motivated by her belief in dignified, affordable housing as a human right and the foundation for social equity, Alba approaches its design with the same rigour as market-rate developments. She sees constraints as an opportunity for creativity and innovation in the pursuit of efficient and humane housing.

Alba is the project architect of Tyndale Green, a 12-building mixed-use development transforming an underused university campus into one of Toronto’s largest privately delivered affordable housing communities. She also played a leading role for Odenak, a two-tower rental development in Ottawa offering significant affordability and supporting populations that face barriers to housing.

Beyond her affordable residential practice, Alba has contributed to Agnes Reimagined at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario; a mixed-use office development in Calgary; a luxury rental project in Columbia, Maryland; and KPMB’s competition entry for the Parliamentary Precinct Block 2 Redevelopment in Ottawa.

She is an active member of KPMB’s EDI/CSR Committee, contributing to initiatives that promote diversity within the firm and advance community-focused equity efforts.

Alba previously worked at CORE Architects, where she managed a two-tower rental and condominium project.

A graduate of the University of Waterloo School of Architecture, Alba was awarded the President’s Scholarship and studied in Rome during her fourth year.