SHOBI

Shobi is an architect and design leader with 15 years of experience spanning high-end design, computational research, and client-side delivery across global markets. She holds a PhD in Architecture with published research on AI, workplace optimization, and advanced computational methods.

She spent a decade at Zaha Hadid Architects, where she led computational design initiatives and delivered landmark projects from concept through construction across retail, residential, cultural, and mixed-use sectors, while driving in-house research on workplace design and algorithmic modelling through ZAHA-CODE and the Agent-based Parametric Semiology group. More recently, Sobitha served client-side as a Project lead at Harrods, leading the planning and delivery of luxury retail and hospitality environments.

Alongside practice, she has maintained a strong academic presence, teaching and lecturing at the Architectural Association’s Design Research Lab (AADRL), and serving as a visiting critic across architecture schools in the UK, Europe, and Asia. She currently lectures at San José State University in California, and is a mentor for the AEC global teamwork project at Stanford.