Omid Kamvari
| Omid Kamvari | |
|---|---|
| File:Omid Kamvari portrait.jpgOmid_Kamvari_portrait.jpg | |
| Born | 1982 Tehran, Iran |
| 🏳️ Nationality | British/Iranian |
| 💼 Occupation | Architect |
| 🌐 Website | Official website |
Omid Kamvari is a British-Iranian architect, researcher, and educator. His main areas of interest are architecture and urbanism, digital design and manufacturing, vernacular design and performance-orientated Design. He specialised in Emergent Technologies and Design and has since continued with research within this field. In 2011, he established Kamvari Architects, a collaborative studio in London.[1] They currently operate from their base in London with another office in Tehran. Kamvari has been teaching across the Middle East since 2006 and currently directs the AA Tehran Visiting School[2] and the AA Baku Visiting School, as well as a senior lecturer at the University of Brighton School of Architecture.
Early life
Kamvari was born in Tehran, Iran in 1982 and lived there until he was 14, when he moved to the UK. He gained his degree in architecture from University of Greenwich in 2003 and went onto the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London[3] to complete his Diploma in 2005 and then Master's degree in 2006.
Kamvari Architects
Omid founded Kamvari Architects in 2011. Kamvari Architects is a collective of architects based in London, UK and Tehran, Iran.
"We place people at the centre of our design process. Above all, we believe that architecture has a responsibility to record social and cultural changes within contemporary living, and do our best to ensure our design proposals respond to this".[4]
Prior to this, he worked for Foster and Partners where he contributed to numerous schemes including a retail park in Bratislava, a mixed-use development in Santa Giulia, Italy, commercial offices in Morocco and hotel developments in Italy and Libya. Before joining Foster, he had spent a year at Allies and Morrison where he became part of the 8-strong London 2012 Olympics master-planning team.[further explanation needed]
In 2007, he joined Hamiltons Architects where he established an advanced modelling group. He later became a group leader, applying his expertise in the field of parametric modelling and analysis to a number of projects including the Tree of Life, a high end residential development in the UAE; Amby Valley, a mixed-use development in India; and numerous commercial projects in the City of London.[citation needed]
In 2009, he joined Skidmore Owings and Merrill's London office to work on a high rise residential for the Manhattan Loft corporation near the Olympic Park in Stratford as well as a hotel and other residential schemes in Egypt and London.
In 2010, he joined Make Architects, initially to work on Cherry Orchard Road, a 1 million ft2 mixed-use scheme which aimed to transform the area surrounding East Croydon Station. He later became a key member of the design team working on two new research institutions at Oxford University's Old Road Campus.
Teaching, lectures and workshops
Omid has been involved with the Architectural Association School of Architecture since his graduation in 2006, directing The Tehran and Muscat visiting Schools.
Positions
- Course Director
- AA Visiting School – Tehran[5]
- Course Director
- AA Visiting School Baku[6]
- Course Director
- AA Visiting School Muscat[7]
Publications and exhibitions
- Dezeen design magazine, Public Space Shading Canopy, 2007[8]
- Domus 896, Designing the shade, October 2006
- Icon Magazine, Designing the shade, July 037, 2006
- Dream Machine The Park And Its Double, 2005
- AA Front Members' Room and Bar Exhibition[9]
Awards and nominations
Nominations
- Young Middle East Architect of the year
Wins
- Design office 2016
- High end residential office 2016
- Most Innovative Urban Architect 2016 – London
- Best International Contemporary Architecture Practice 2016
- Recognised Leader in Environmentally Friendly Projects.
- Building Magazine Design office of the year 2015
- Building Magazine High End Residential Office of the year[10]
- World Architecture Community, G housing Future project award[11]
References
- ↑ "Kamvari Architects - Kamvari Architects". www.kamvariarchitects.com.
- ↑ Architectural school of Architecture, Staff list, http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/AALIFE/CONTACTS/staffinfo.php?filter=75
- ↑ "AA School Homepage". www.aaschool.ac.uk.
- ↑ "Kamvari Architects-Office - Kamvari Architects". www.kamvariarchitects.com.
- ↑ "AA Visiting Schools". www.aaschool.ac.uk. Retrieved July 24, 2017.
- ↑ "– AA Visiting Schools". www.aaschool.ac.uk. Retrieved July 24, 2017.
- ↑ "Muscat – AA Visiting Schools". www.aaschool.ac.uk. Retrieved July 24, 2017.
- ↑ "dezeen loves... Public Space Shading Canopy | Dezeen". Dezeen. January 24, 2007. Retrieved July 24, 2017.
- ↑ "AA School of Architecture - Exhibitions". www.aaschool.ac.uk. Retrieved July 24, 2017.
- ↑ "BUILD - Home". www.build-news.com. Retrieved July 24, 2017.
- ↑ "WA Contents's Blog". worldarchitecture.org. Retrieved July 24, 2017.
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