Omid Kamvari

Omid Kamvari
Born 1982
Tehran, Iran
Nationality British/Iranian
Occupation Architect
Practice Kamvari Architects

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. He established Kamvari Architects a collaborative studio in London in 2011.[1] They currently operate from their base in London with another office in Tehran. He 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

Omid 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, Ajudaniyeh Tower, Tehran, Iran,2012
Kamvari Architects, D3 Housing, Tehran, Iran, 2012

Kamvari Architects

Kamvari Architects, Anglia Square Masterplan, 2013
Kamvari Architects, the Rinq, 2012

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".[4]

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 Guilia, 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 masterplanning 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 + workshops

AA Tehran Visiting School, 2014 Exhibition
AA Muscat Visiting School, 2010 Exhibition

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 http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/STUDY/VISITING/tehran

Course Director AA visiting school Muscat http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/STUDY/VISITING/muscat

Publications and exhibitions

Dezeen design magazine, Public Space Shading Canopy,2007 http://www.dezeen.com/2007/01/24/dezeen-loves-public-space-shading-canopy/

Domus 896, designing the shade, October 2006 www.domusweb.it

Icon Magazine, Designing the shade, July 037, 2006 www.icon-magazine.co.uk

Dream Machine The Park And Its Double, 2005 AA Front Members’ Room and Bar Exhibition www.aaschool.ac.uk/exhibitions

Awards

Building Magazine Design office of the year 2015

Building Magazine High End Residential Office of the year

http://www.build-news.com/awards/2015-architecture/2015-results/details/kamvari-architects

World Architecture Community, G housing Future project award

http://worldarchitecture.org/architecture%2Dprojects/awards%2Dwinners/

References

  1. ↑ http://www.kamvariarchitects.com
  2. ↑ Architectural school of Architecture, Staff list, http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/AALIFE/CONTACTS/staffinfo.php?filter=75
  3. ↑ http://www.aaschool.ac.uk
  4. ↑ http://www.kamvariarchitects.com/office/

http://asiahouse.org/events/omid-kamvari-21st-century-middle-eastern-city/ http://asiahouse.org/british-iranian-architect-want-make-city-living-bearable-spaces-social-gatherings-essential/


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