Raised across seven cities in the Pacific and shaped by collaborations across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, Joem Elias Sañez’s work lives at the intersection of architecture, technology, and the evolving choreography of systems. Though no longer practicing architecture in the traditional sense, his training remains central—a lens for clarity, structure, and scale in everything he builds.

With a background in design, code, and cross-cultural collaboration, Joem brings an architect’s eye to software products: form shaped by function, systems guided by intent. His approach merges material intuition with digital fluency—translating early signals into scalable platforms, and prototypes into quiet revolutions.

Sañez holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with honors in Architecture/Landscape/Interiors and an Interdisciplinary Concentration in Sculpture & New Genres from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. He earned his Master of Architecture from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in New York, with tenures at Herzog & de Meuron and Foster + Partners.

In 2018, he relocated to Singapore to open Foster + Partners’ Southeast Asia studio. Today, his practice lives in product leadership and platform strategy—where design and engineering meet, and where architecture now lives as ethos rather than profession.

In his free time, Joem enjoys reviewing films, designing books, reading memoirs, bicycling and playing the piano—each, in their own way, a study in rhythm, structure, and soul.