Negin Moayer
Facility Design Specialist
Negin Moayer is a licensed architect, design director and founder of BNMO Design + Development where she focuses on neighborhood revitalization projects, communal public installations and architectural alterations to existing city housing to maintain the affordability and integrity of neighborhoods and avoid gentrification. BNMO projects range from a small porch renovation for a senior citizen who had difficulty navigating the City of Chicago permitting process, to a large community center in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago offering safe haven and guidance for purposeful lives.
Negin’s diverse education and work experience in the Middle East and North America allows her to acknowledge the importance of the adaptation of the built environment to its contextual culture. She has practiced this ideology throughout her work as a designer and planner at urban planning firms in Tehran, large design firms in the United States, and as a practice owner in Chicago where she has lived and worked since 2006.
As an immigrant herself, Negin works with refugee settlement organizations in Chicago offering mentorship and resettlement assistance. Her perspectives on the impact of war, immigration and foreign policy on the built environment have been published on several editorial pages. She holds a Master of Architecture and Urban Planning from UW-Milwaukee and the University of Tehran.
