Tonia Vasile

Tonia Vasile is an architect and urban planner with over ten years of international experience across Europe, Asia, and South America. Her work focuses on transforming underused urban and architectural spaces into places that people choose to inhabit, work in, and connect through always starting from real human behavior rather than abstract form. She was educated between Turin and Valparaíso, earning a double academic formation at Politecnico di Torino and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, an experience that shaped her sensitivity to public space, social life, and the relationship between landscape and everyday use. Professionally, Tonia has worked in Italy, China, and Chile, developing projects that range from large‑scale urban masterplans to workplace and interior strategies. She has worked in Shanghai and Beijing on urban regeneration, waterfronts, urban villages, and mixed‑use developments, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams in fast‑paced international design environments. In 2020, she founded TOVA Studio in Milan, Italy, an independent practice dedicated to urban planning, regeneration, and spatial transformation. Across all scales, her approach is grounded in observation, cultural awareness, and the translation of everyday use into clear, inclusive, and spatial solutions.