Samir Bantal

Samir is Director of AMO, the research and design studio of OMA, a leading international practice in architecture and urbanism. He has lead a number of design projects ranging from a new phone for Vodafone, a new retail concept for Korean luxury brand Genesis, to a high-rise mixed use tower in Casablanca. Samir has contributed on publications, such as Project Japan and Al Manakh I.

Currently Samir is leading three exhibition projects. In Qatar AMO explores the role of modern architecture in the development of the city of Doha, opening March 2019. The creative direction and design of ‘Figures of Speech’ is a collaboration between Virgil Abloh and Samir Bantal/AMO and will open in June 2019. Finally, together with the Harvard School of Design Samir works on ‘Countryside’ a research project that investigates the interaction between the city and the countryside, which will culminate in an exhibition in the Guggenheim in New York in the fall of 2019.