About Mani Emad

Mani Emad is an urban designer, architect, sculptor, and painter whose work moves fluidly between the built environment and the world of artistic expression. With a background in architecture and urban design, his creative practice is rooted in spatial awareness, material exploration, and a profound sensitivity to how people interact with their surroundings.

His sculptures and paintings often echo the language of cities, layered, textured, and alive, while drawing inspiration from memory, history, and human experience. Through form, color, and composition, Mani explores the dualities of structure and fluidity, permanence and impermanence, silence and movement.

In parallel to his professional practice in urban design, Mani uses art as a medium to translate architectural ideas into tactile and emotional expressions. His paintings carry a sculptural depth, while his sculptures often embody the rhythm and scale of urban landscapes. This interplay creates a body of work that is both symbolic and grounded, abstract yet rooted in material honesty.

Whether shaping public spaces or creating intimate works of art, Mani’s practice is guided by a belief in art and design as tools for dialogue between people, place, and time.