Omid Kamvari is Director and UK Practice Lead at HDR and Director of Kamvari Architects, the practice he founded in 2011 to explore contemporary urbanism, digital design and advanced manufacturing. He studied architecture at the University of Greenwich and the AA. His professional experience includes roles at Allies and Morrison, Foster + Partners, Hamiltons Architects, Make Architects, and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, contributing to major international commercial, residential and mixed-use projects. Alongside practice, he has been Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton and the University of Nottingham, and Programme Head for AA Visiting School programmes in Tehran, Baku and Oman.

Filippos Filippidis is an architect and computational design specialist working at the intersection of design and technology. His experience in architectural practise has varied in design scales ranging from web and desktop applications to material research and installations to residential buildings and infrastructure projects. He has worked at firms such as ecoLogicStudio, Robofold, Foster + Partners, Bryden Wood and taught design studios and workshops at the University of Brighton, Manchester School of Architecture and the AA Visiting School in Melbourne. He is currently living and working in Greece.

• On-site observation and Lidar scanning sketching
• Measured drawings of details
• Photography and mapping
• Comparative analysis across eras
• Short theoretical discussions (threshold as spatial, social, symbolic device)

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