Nationality British/Iranian Occupation Architect | Practice Kamvari Architects Name Omid Kamvari | |
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Born 1982 Tehran, Iran | ||
Kamvari Architects Asia house Exhibition
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. 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 and the AA Baku Visiting School, as well as a senior lecturer at the University of Brighton School of Architecture.
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- Kamvari Architects Asia house Exhibition
- Early life
- Kamvari Architects
- Teaching lectures and workshops
- Positions
- Publications and exhibitions
- Awards and nominations
- References
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 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 with in contemporary living, and do our best to insure our design proposals respond to this".
Prior to this, he worked for Foster and Partners where he contributed to numerous schemes including a retail park in Bratislava, a mixed used 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.
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.
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"Course Director "AA visiting school Baku
Course Director AA visiting school MuscatPublications and exhibitions
Awards and nominations
Nominations
Wins