ANI DOSHEVA
Ani Dosheva is an architectural designer, researcher and maker working at the intersection of architecture, stage, and exhibition design. Educated at The Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) and TU Delft, her practice combines technical precision with a multidisciplinary approach to spatial storytelling.
Her work spans across Europe, including more recent stage and exhibition design for the ‘Rivers of the City’ Festival (Sofia, 2025), ‘Linear Encounters’ (Centre Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Gabrovo, 2025), and ‘Harvesting Land’ (Oud House, Rotterdam, 2025). Ani’s professional experience includes working at leading architectural practices such as Sheppard Robson and Bogle Architects in London, as well as independent spatial design work for productions in Bloomsbury theatre, films sets in London and Sofia, hospitality interiors such as ‘Vereya’ café-bakery and vernacular heritage institutions including Adopta o Casa and Meshtra.
Bridging concept and craft, she approaches design as a spatial dialogue —a process where architecture, material, and human behaviour intersect. Her installations and stage environments are grounded in architectural clarity yet emotionally immersive complex narratives, translated into tangible, performative space.
Architectural & Spatial Design
2025 Stage design and fabrication, ‘Rivers of the City’ festival main stage, Sofia, BG
2025 Spatial design and fabrication, ‘Linear Encounters’ exhibition, Centre Christo and Jean Claude, Gabrovo, BG
2025 Spatial design and fabrication, ‘Harvesting Land’ exhibition, Oud House, Rotterdam, NL
2024 Stage design, Sansusi Festival, Suseja, LV
2022-24 Interior design, café Vereya, Pleven, BG
2022 Stage design and fabrication ETDS Delft, Award: 2022 Best TDS design of the year, Delft, NL
2022 Stage design assistance and fabrication, Rivers of the City Festival, Sofia, BG
2022 Stage design assistance and fabrication, NTDS Enschede, Enschede, NL
2021 Part 1 Architectural Assistant, Sheppard Robson, London, UK
2021 Spatial design, ‘Goldsmiths’ Hall: Trakian Heritage’ Exposition, Regional History Museum Vratsa, Vratsa, BG
2021 Set design assistance and fabrication, ‘Theatrical Romance’ movie, Sofia, BG
2021 Creative direction and set design, ‘Reversed Serenade’ short film, London, UK
2020 Part 1 Architectural Assistant, Bogle Architects, London, UK
2019 Vernacular Fabrication, Adopta o Casa, Rosia Montana (UNESCO), RO
2018 Props design, ‘Saint Joan’ play, Bloomsbury Theatre, London, UK
Exhibitions
2025 ‘Harvesting Land’ exhibition, Oud House, Rotterdam, NL
2024 ‘Reversed Serenade’, Frame2Frame film festival, WORM, Rotterdam, NL
2020 Bartlett Summer Show, digital space, London, UK
2019 Bartlett Summer Show, Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), London, UK
2018 Bartlett Summer Show, Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), London, UK
2018 Meshtra Vernacular Architecture Stara Planina, ETAR, Gabrovo, BG
2018 Fragmented Nature exhibition, Baba Vida Fortress, Vidin, BG
Teaching/Talks
2025 Co-tutor ‘The Spirit of Time: Horizontal Stories’ architectural story-telling design workshop, Centre Christo and Jean Claude, Gabrovo, BG
2025 Co-tutor ‘Best Rice you have Never had’ food + architectural story-telling design workshop, Vuurhuis, Rotterdam, NL
2023 – present Design tutor, freelance
2022 Guest speaker ‘Stories in Migration’ talks, University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Sofia, BG
2022 Co-tutor ‘Metopolis: A Secret Geography’ architectural story-telling design workshop, EASA, Calarasi, RO
Publications
2023 ‘The (Re-)Model Market: Street food pop-ups as affective atmospheres and restorative urban entities’
2020 Creative direction and Illustration for ‘Besedata’, poetry book by Geto Yordanov, London, UK
2020 Bartlett Summer Show catalogue
2020 ‘Orchestrated Water Flows: Implementing double Folded copper sheets as structural systems and water sound amplifying elements’
2020 ‘Fluctuating Orientalism: Contemporary repurpose of trans-cultural Bulgarian modernism architecture’
2019 Bartlett Summer Show catalogue
2018 Bartlett Summer Show catalogue
ANI DOSHEVA
Ani Dosheva is an architectural designer, researcher and maker working at the intersection of architecture, stage, and exhibition design. Educated at The Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) and TU Delft, her practice combines technical precision with a multidisciplinary approach to spatial storytelling.
Her work spans across Europe, including more recent stage and exhibition design for the ‘Rivers of the City’ Festival (Sofia, 2025), ‘Linear Encounters’ (Centre Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Gabrovo, 2025), and ‘Harvesting Land’ (Oud House, Rotterdam, 2025). Ani’s professional experience includes working at leading architectural practices such as Sheppard Robson and Bogle Architects in London, as well as independent spatial design work for productions in Bloomsbury theatre, films sets in London and Sofia, hospitality interiors such as ‘Vereya’ café-bakery and vernacular heritage institutions including Adopta o Casa and Meshtra.
Bridging concept and craft, she approaches design as a spatial dialogue —a process where architecture, material, and human behaviour intersect. Her installations and stage environments are grounded in architectural clarity yet emotionally immersive complex narratives, translated into tangible, performative space.
Architectural & Spatial Design
2025 Stage design and fabrication, ‘Rivers of the City’ festival main stage, Sofia, BG
2025 Spatial design and fabrication, ‘Linear Encounters’ exhibition, Centre Christo and Jean Claude, Gabrovo, BG
2025 Spatial design and fabrication, ‘Harvesting Land’ exhibition, Oud House, Rotterdam, NL
2024 Stage design, Sansusi Festival, Suseja, LV
2022-24 Interior design, café Vereya, Pleven, BG
2022 Stage design and fabrication ETDS Delft, Award: 2022 Best TDS design of the year, Delft, NL
2022 Stage design assistance and fabrication, Rivers of the City Festival, Sofia, BG
2022 Stage design assistance and fabrication, NTDS Enschede, Enschede, NL
2021 Part 1 Architectural Assistant, Sheppard Robson, London, UK
2021 Spatial design, ‘Goldsmiths’ Hall: Trakian Heritage’ Exposition, Regional History Museum Vratsa, Vratsa, BG
2021 Set design assistance and fabrication, ‘Theatrical Romance’ movie, Sofia, BG
2021 Creative direction and set design, ‘Reversed Serenade’ short film, London, UK
2020 Part 1 Architectural Assistant, Bogle Architects, London, UK
2019 Vernacular Fabrication, Adopta o Casa, Rosia Montana (UNESCO), RO
2018 Props design, ‘Saint Joan’ play, Bloomsbury Theatre, London, UK
Exhibitions
2025 ‘Harvesting Land’ exhibition, Oud House, Rotterdam, NL
2024 ‘Reversed Serenade’, Frame2Frame film festival, WORM, Rotterdam, NL
2020 Bartlett Summer Show, digital space, London, UK
2019 Bartlett Summer Show, Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), London, UK
2018 Bartlett Summer Show, Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), London, UK
2018 Meshtra Vernacular Architecture Stara Planina, ETAR, Gabrovo, BG
2018 Fragmented Nature exhibition, Baba Vida Fortress, Vidin, BG
Teaching/Talks
2025 Co-tutor ‘The Spirit of Time: Horizontal Stories’ architectural story-telling design workshop, Centre Christo and Jean Claude, Gabrovo, BG
2025 Co-tutor ‘Best Rice you have Never had’ food + architectural story-telling design workshop, Vuurhuis, Rotterdam, NL
2023 – present Design tutor, freelance
2022 Guest speaker ‘Stories in Migration’ talks, University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Sofia, BG
2022 Co-tutor ‘Metopolis: A Secret Geography’ architectural story-telling design workshop, EASA, Calarasi, RO
Publications
2023 ‘The (Re-)Model Market: Street food pop-ups as affective atmospheres and restorative urban entities’
2020 Creative direction and Illustration for ‘Besedata’, poetry book by Geto Yordanov, London, UK
2020 Bartlett Summer Show catalogue
2020 ‘Orchestrated Water Flows: Implementing double Folded copper sheets as structural systems and water sound amplifying elements’
2020 ‘Fluctuating Orientalism: Contemporary repurpose of trans-cultural Bulgarian modernism architecture’
2019 Bartlett Summer Show catalogue
2018 Bartlett Summer Show catalogue