farhan qalbain iman

Laurea Magistrale (equivalent to MSc) in Architectural Design and History of Politecnico di Milano in the campus of Mantova, Italia. Graduated in July 2025 with the final score of 110 out of 110 with Lode on the thesis titled 'Revisiting Bandung: the early 20th century colonial laboratory of dutch east indian architecture'.

B. Arch from the Architecture Department of Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia. Graduated in 2020 with a GPA of 3.47/4.00 and the final project titled ‘Bandung Architecture Museum’.

currently collaborating with RMJM Mantova as a junior architect mostly dealing with the modelling and technical aspects of designs.

a short curricular internship done under the 3D Survey Lab Polimi, doing photogrammetric survey of the baptism basin in the Duomo di Milano. The photogrammetric data was registered with an existing point cloud of a laser scanner of which it was then processed and elaborated to be presented to the client.

2 years of working as a junior architect in Bandung, Indonesia, in the architectural firm of heptadesain led by Jimmy Purba and Baskoro Tedjo as the principal architects after right after graduation as a follow up to the previous internship done in the same studio. The works done during this period includes getting involved in various typologies of projects ranging from 150m2 to 150.000m2, being a project manager in 2 projects (of which 1 is built), and as junior architect assisting the lead architect in others. heptadesain also gave me special permissions and responsibilities to tinker around and develop the newly acquired 3D resin printer and a VR headset to improve the studio’s design processes.

as tutor and teaching assistant in the Institut Teknologi Bandung in two separate occasion: in 2022 in the Architectural Documentation Workshop as a teaching assistant in the period between resigning as a junior architect and starting the MSc program after having been invited by a colleague, and in 2020 during study as a tutor in the Computational Design Studio by the recommendation of the course lecturer.

was a member of a design team in 2025 for an exhibition titled 'Samuele Drago. Sulle tracce di Orfeo' that was organized by Museo di Storia Naturale of Verona and Politecnico di Milano.

won the 1st prize of the MITH Hackathon 2023 organized by Polimi Mantova after my team and I presented a project for the workshop titled ‘BRICK’ as an informative platform for historical building construction sites.

was invited to present an academic project in the Architectural Fair Universitas Indonesia 2020 with the recommendation of the head of the Department of Architecture of Institut Teknologi Bandung in the 3rd year of Bachelor.

had participated in several international workshops: the International Workshop on Wooden Architecture organized by Sekolah Tukang Nusantara focused on learning the traditional building methods of vernacular houses in Sumba, Indonesia; and the Bamboo Lab which was organized by the Architectural Association Visiting School in a collaboration with the Institut Teknologi Bandung with the topic of bamboo structures for disaster prone areas.

involved in the student journal ‘gatera’ as an initiative by M. Sc students of Polimi.

is a design team for a NGO ‘Rancang Indonesia’ to help design educational facilities for a disaster-struck school in remote areas.

was the president of the architecture student association ‘Ikatan Mahasiswa Arsitektur - Gunadharma’ for a period.

is still an active member of ‘PPA Jamadagni’, an outdoor activities organization.

volunteered in mantovarchitettura organized by Politecnico di Milano 2 years in a row.

volunteered in a community service program organized by Institut Teknologi Bandung to build a temporary shelter made out of bamboo in Lombok, Indonesia, after the area had been struck by an earthquake.