Sepehr Seyyed Esfahani is an architectural designer and doctoral researcher based in London, working across practice and research. He is a part-time PhD Architecture by Design student at ESALA, supervised by Dr Chris French and Adrian Hawker.

As an architectural designer, Sepehr has international experience working across the UK, the Middle East and Africa. In 2025, he contributed to the British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, working with NG Architects and P.A.R.T. on Objects of Repair, and presented Mews Reflection, a collaborative project on the layered narratives of London’s mews, at the London Festival of Architecture.

Sepehr holds an MA in Architecture with Distinction from the University of Westminster, where his thesis, London’s Ballads, received the Surjit Cheema Award for Critical Written Thesis and the Jila Golzari Award, and was nominated for the Weston Williamson + Partners Award for Creative and Inclusive City Design. He completed his Bachelor of Architectural Engineering at the University of Art in Tehran, where he was also a Teaching Assistant on introductory design studios. He has also served as an External Reviewer at Westminster and was awarded a  grant by the French Embassy for the ENSAPL Peridoctoral Programme.