2008 Europe 40 under 40
AMIR SANEI
GREAT BRITAIN
Amir Sanei graduated from the Architectural Association with Honours in 1994, and soon after started work at Michael Hopkins and Partners on a number of renowned projects. Having been made a project director, he left Hopkins in 2002 to form Sanei Hopkins Architects with his wife Abigail Hopkins. Their work has since received both national and international acclaim. In 2005 it won an RIBA award for The Artists Studio. The duo were also hailed by Icon magazine as the new generation of emerging London Architects. The work of the practice has been published widely in both the UK and Overseas. He is a regular contributor to the Architecture Journal in the UK and abroad. He has lectured at the AA, the Royal College of Art & The School of Architecture in Graz and has been a visiting critic at the Architectural Association and at Westminster University. He has been an international competition judge, is an RIBA awards
2008 shortlister and is a member of London Borough of Newhams new Design Review Panel.
Right: Jude Street.
