Summary
Octavian Gheorghiu is an Associate Partner at Foster + Partners and a multidisciplinary architect, production designer and design researcher with eight years of professional experience shaping advanced built environments. He blends parametric and product design with design research to tackle complex challenges from autonomous transportation systems to conceptual outer-space habitats. Active in academia as a lecturer at the Bartlett and tutor at the Architectural Association, he bridges practice and teaching to test emergent technologies like AR/VR and Microsoft HoloLens in architectural contexts. Known for moving seamlessly across disciplines, he pairs hands-on digital prototyping and systems analysis with an acute focus on human perception and interaction. His background in film production design and industrial design gives him an uncommon knack for storytelling through space and materiality. Based in England, he leads design innovation at the intersection of architecture, technology and user-centred research.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer