Adrian Phiffer is originally from Romania. He received his Master of Architecture from University of Architecture and Urbanism “Ion Mincu” in Bucharest, and a Master of Urban Design from University of Toronto. In 2001-2002 he studied at Ecole d’Architecture de Toulouse under a Socrates-Erasmus Scholarship offered by the European Union. He has worked with Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam. In parallel to Office of Adrian Phiffer, he teaches at the University of Toronto - John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design.

Office of Adrian Phiffer is an architecture office based in Toronto, Canada. The work of the office is characterized by an openness that considers all aspects of the contemporary city, including its surreal nature, in a real and rational manner. The result is an architecture afraid neither of appearing generic nor uncanny and emotionally charged. The office engages in projects that range in scope from movies and art objects to monumental buildings and large urban plans.  The projects are developed mainly via international design competition. Exercising and adhering to the format of design competition has allowed the office to experiment with a range of design methods that bring new intensities to the current practice of architecture. The office works with apparently contradictory notions: bricolage, found objects, non-authorship, grossform, repetition, and generics. The members of the Office of Adrian Phiffer make time to teach, write, and instagram as a way of expanding the office’s thinking on architecture.