Sara Hosseinian Amiri
Born in Tehran in 1982, Sara received her Bachelor’s degree from the Faculty of Arts and Architecture of the Central Tehran branch of Azad University in 2005 before receiving her master’s degree from Imam Khomeini International University in 2005. From 2008 to 2018 she worked as an architect in various prestigious firms like Hooba Design, Arsh 4D, and Studio Saheb. She still continues to work as a freelance architect. She has also taught courses on architectural design in different universities, including the West Tehran branch of Azad University, from 2009 to 2018. Through the years, given her personal interest in Origami, she has started to make lightings and geometrical shapes using origami patterns as a hobby that she enjoys. In 2017, together with Hooman Balazadeh, she made a kinetic lighting using a folding-origami style, which was put on display in Objet exhibition. In 2018, her folding-origami dress was worn on the catwalk at Romania’s Feeric Fashion Week with Architecture in Fashion platform. The design was shown as the first look in runway and received a lot of attention. She has also worked as an instructor assistant in the Code Structured City course (Tower Typology) and also as an instructor in Rethinking Modularities (Emergent role of pattern in future design), which studied geometric patterns in architecture, fashion, and other fields of design. In 2018, she founded the Sors brand along with Sepideh and Bahareh. Using origami patterns and folding techniques are prevalent in their works.
Sepideh Kaviani
Born in Tehran in 1989, Sepideh received her Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the Industrial College of the North Tehran branch of Azad University and her MA in Fashion from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Science and Culture. From 2011 to 2017, she worked as a Business Manager in Renault Pars trading company and the official branch of Adidas in Iran. During this time, she pursued her personal interest in fashion and design. In 2018 she founded Source together with Bahareh and Sara, using her background in management to align her academic knowledge and personal interest.
Bahareh Rahmani
Born in Tehran in 1989, Bahareh received both her Bachelor’s and master’s from the Faculty of Arts and Architecture of the Central Tehran branch of Azad University, graduated in 2012. Bahareh worked in Ali Kermanian and Arsh 4D firms before start to working as a freelance architect. In 2018, she founded Sors along with Sepideh and Sara. Bahareh believes that design elements need to be structured and this and her attention to details, born from her architecture-oriented mind, are obvious in Sors Studio designs.
Sara Hosseinian Amiri
Born in Tehran in 1982, Sara received her Bachelor’s degree from the Faculty of Arts and Architecture of the Central Tehran branch of Azad University in 2005 before receiving her Master’s degree from Imam Khomeini International University in 2005. From 2008 to 2018 she worked as an architect in various prestigious firms like Hooba Design, Arsh 4D, and Studio Saheb. She still continues to work as a freelance architect. She has also taught courses on architectural design in different universities, including the West Tehran branch of Azad University, from 2009 to 2018.
Through the years, given her personal interest in Origami, she has started to make lightings and geometrical shapes using original pattern as a hobby that she enjoys. In 2017, together with Hooman Balazadeh, she made a kinetic lighting using a folding-origami style, which was put on display in Objet exhibition.
In 2018, her folding-origami dress was worn on the catwalk at Romania’s Feeric Fashion Week with Architecture in Fashion platform. The design was shown as the first look in runway and received a lot of attention.
She has also worked as an instructor assistant in the Code Structured City course (Tower Typology) and also as an instructor in Rethinking Modularities (Emergent role of pattern in future design), which studied geometric patterns in architecture, fashion, and other fields of design.
In 2018, she founded the Sors brand along with Sepideh and Bahareh. Using origami patterns and folding techniques are prevalent in their works.
Sepideh Kaviani
Born in Tehran in 1989, Sepideh received her Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the Industrial College of the North Tehran branch of Azad University and her MA in Fashion from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Science and Culture. From 2011 to 2017, she worked as a Business Manager in Renault Pars trading company and the official branch of Adidas in Iran. During this time, she pursued her personal interest in fashion and design. In 2018 she founded Source together with Bahareh and Sara, using her background in management to align her academic knowledge and personal interest.
Bahareh Rahmani
Born in Tehran in 1989, Bahareh received both her Bachelor’s and Master’s from the Faculty of Arts and Architecture of the Central Tehran branch of Azad University, graduated in 2012. Bahareh worked in Ali Kermanian and Arsh 4D firms before start to working as a freelance architect. In 2018, she founded Source along with Sepideh and Sara. Bahareh believes that design elements need to be structured and this and her attention to details, born from her architecture-oriented mind, are obvious in Sors Studio designs.