Vikram Sami, Olson Kundig’s director of building performance, has been working on high performance design for over eighteen years, combining technical expertise with a love of design.
In design, high performance isn’t just about finding the answers. It’s about asking the right questions.
Vikram Sami
Director of Building Performance | AIA, BEMP, LEED AP
Lectures & Juries
2024
Living Future Conference, Transforming Housing: A Climate-Positive Home, Presentation
AIA | Conference on Architecture & Design, Transforming Housing: A Climate-Positive Home, Presentation
2023
AIA Ohio Design Awards, Jury
2021
Boston Society for Architecture Honor Awards for Design Excellence, Juror
AIA/ACSA Intersections Research Conference – “Healthy Communities Special Focus Session”
Facades+ Conference Southeast – “Façade as Filter: Building for the Climate”
2019
Speaker, “Performance of the Building Envelope,” Conference on Advanced Building Skins, Bern, Switzerland
Facades+ Conference New York City – “Cognitive Kinetics: Poetics of Participation and Passive Design”
Living Future unConference – “If You Can Only Do One Thing: Using the COTE Toolkit to Elevate Every Project”
2018
AIA Seattle Housing Design Forum – Residential Design Case Study
Education
Master of Science in Building Design, Arizona State University
Bachelor of Architecture, Academy of Architecture, Mumbai, India