Design Director, Thornton Tomasetti
Daniel Bosia, Design Director at Thornton Tomasetti, is a Fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers with an MSc in Structural and Bridge Engineering and a Master Degree in Architecture. Over the past 25 years, he has collaborated with high profile international architects on projects like the Google Headquarters in Mountain View and the Bloomberg Headquarters in London, the Taichung Opera House and the New Scottish Parliament Building. Daniel has also led the design of large place-making projects in the public realm such as the Vessel in Hudson Yards and the 5km elevated Tide walkway in London. He has worked on the design of a number of footbridges including the Pedro e Ines Bridge in Coimbra and the Weave Bridge in Philadelphia.
Committed to research and education as well as practice, Daniel held a Diploma Unit at the Architectural Association, he was Honorary Professor at Aalborg University and lectured in a number of Universities in Europe and the US including Harvard, Columbia, ETH, Bartlett, UPenn, IIT and Princeton. A former co-founder of the Advanced Geometry Unit at Arup (AGU) and head of the Parametric Applied Research Team at AKT (Part), Daniel has been pushing the boundaries in Computational Design developing new design tools to promote the deep collaboration between architects and engineers.