James Khamsi is the director of FIRM, a design practice that focuses on the assemblage, performance and perception of material systems at the scale of the city, the building and the object. He received his Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University, and his Masters of Architecture with distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He has practiced in New York and London, most notably at Foreign Office Architects where he worked on the London 2012 Olympic Park Master plan and the Sevenstone mixed-use development in Sheffield. He is editor of and contributing author to the forthcoming book Huburbs: Transit and Urbanism in Toronto. His work has been published in Actar's Verb series and Interior Design magazine. He has taught at Harvard?s Graduate School of Design, the University of Toronto Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design and Parsons the New School of Design.
