After graduating from The University of Sheffield, Mihai has worked on a number of RIBA awarded and internationally published projects for BDP, both in the Manchester and Shanghai offices, and for Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios in London.

He has received a Master of Architecture with Distinction degree from The University of Westminster, where his projects won the RPP Material Practice Award, as well as a honorary mention in the Biodesign International Competition organised by Inhabitat Magazine. During his final year at Westminster Mihai has also been invited to crit undergraduate students and hold design workshops as an assistant design tutor.