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Growing up in the dense, historical city of Cairo, Yehia was fascinated with the impact of architecture on people鈥檚 lives. He saw the power of design and formed a special interest in public projects that shape our cities and communities.

With a desire to help bring positive change, Yehia believes we must find new approaches as we move towards an increasingly complex and interconnected future. Motivated to advance the profession through research and technology, Yehia contributes to both the Perkins&Will Building Technology and听 听Mobility labs鈥攁dvancing the use of sensors technology, progressing the firm鈥檚 robotic and digital capabilities in building with wood, and exploring how听 听integrating transit with new modes of mobility can enhance the livability of our cities.

In addition to leading the design on many of Perkins&Will鈥檚 most impactful projects worldwide, Yehia sits on the firm鈥檚 Research Board where he directs the studio鈥檚 innovation efforts, working with project teams to connect research and identify topics for investigation. He is founder and past director of Perkins&Will鈥檚 Computational Design Integration, where he facilitated a platform to advocate for digital design and fabrication across offices and is the author of a book titled Parametric Design Beyond Complex Geometries.

A practicing designer, researcher, computational designer, and educator, Mahdiar is passionate about advancing the field of architecture and design through research and technology.

As the lead computational designer for the Perkins&Will Building Technology Lab and Design Process Lab, Mahdiar has contributed to the development of generative design tools, at the scale of architecture and urban design, used for design exploration and analysis of the iterative process of performative architecture. He has led a wide range of innovative research and design projects from fully developing technologies for environmental analysis and occupant simulation in architectural space, to robotic fabrication in architecture industry, emerging construction technology and research on evolutionary architectural design.

Building on his expertise in the architectural design process, Mahdiar鈥檚 academic research focuses on an interdisciplinary field that combines architecture, biology, and computation with the goal of introducing new dynamic design methodologies, establishing intelligent problem-solving techniques through computational design, and predicting the future of design as an organic on-going evolutionary phenomenon.

Throughout his career Mahdiar has also been involved in the academic world in several capacities as an instructor, reviewer, and project supervisor鈥攁ll around the theme of design computation and futuristic vision for built environment.