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ARTIST, ARCHITECT AND RESEARCHER


EDUCATION


2022-2026

Practice based PHD

Casa de Velázquez + ENSAB Paris-Bélleville laboratoire IPRAUS, Université Gustave Eiffel



2001

Master of Architecture
École Spéciale d'Architecture, Paris

EXHIBITIONS

Les voyages de l'eau, Galerie Sept Elzévir, PhD exhibition, 2026
Los viajes del agua, Casa Arabe, Cordoba, 2024
Los viajes del agua, Casa Arabe, Madrid, 2024
Polaris, La petite galerie, Paris, 2021
Les voyages de l’eau, Maison de l’Architecture, Nantes, 2021
Journal de Fouille, Viva Villa, La Collection Lambert, Avignon, 2020
ARCO Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain, section ArtsLibris, 2020
l’Atelier, galerie Loo&lou, Paris, 2020
Tehran garden festival, Kunstfort, Amsterdam, 2017
Relief plan for a belvedere, Platform28 for art and architecture, Tehran, 2016
Reviving Mehrgerd, MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, 2016
Iran dessus-dessous, Fondation Nicolas Michelin, Paris, 2015
HydroCity, Toronto Free Gallery, Toronto, 2012

TEACHING

École Spéciale Paris, Undergraduate and graduate Design and Theory studios (2015-ongoing)

ENSA -Paris-Est, , S2, fiction and representation studio, 2022-2023

ENSA- Marrakesh, design studio, Master-lab,  water, cities, and landscape, 2021

École Nationale de Paysage de Versailles, Diploma studio, 2018


HydroCity Workshops 

Objet-Milieu, ETSAM, Madrid , 2020

Ingruttati Palermo, Manifesta12, UNIPA Palermo, 2018

Made in Tehran #04, Platform28 for art and Architecture, Tehran, 2017

Re-Use Yazd, University of Yazd School of Architecture, UNESCO-ICQHS, ESA-Lab, Blois National School of Landscape, 2014

Mesocity, University of Tehran, School of Fine Arts,  ESA-Lab, 2012


ARCHITECTURE

Glenforest garden design, Toronto, 2025

Maison Sibel, aménagement extérieur, Le Pecq, in collaboration avec Frank Salama, 2022

Tehran Garden Festival, 12th district municipality Tehran, 2015-2017

Appartement Iranshahr, Tehran, 2015

Appartement Lauxerois, Paris, 2014

Villa Sarvelat, Caspian sea, 2008




PUBLICATIONS

The Invisible Monument, BonGah, 17x23cm, 128p, ISBN 978-600-5268-42-3 , 2020

Re-Use Yazd, Ecologie politique de l’eau, éditions Hermann, 2017

Art, ecology and the city, Nafas Art Magazine, 2012

Tehran 2050 in Urban Hybridization in Modern Territories, Milan Polytechnique, 2010

Tehran 2050, Architecture des Milieux, ESA, Paris, 2008


CONFERENCES

Berkelley Carol School, New York, 2022

Vermont college of Fine Arts, US, 2021

Les Moyens du Bord, Morlaix, 2021

ENSA, Quai Malaquais, Paris, 2021

Cité de l’Architecture, Paris,  colloque synergic design, 2017

Columbia Global Centres, Paris, 2018

Tehran Urban Innovation Center, Iran

Tarbiat Modaress University, Tehran

MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran

IFRI, French Institute of Research, Tehran, 2016

SOAS, University of London, UK, 2015

Musée Ghassr, Téhéran, 2012


RESIDENCIES

Le Dôme Festival #06, 2021

Académie de France à Madrid, Casa de Velázquez , 2019-2020

Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, 2017-2018

Ideas Cities, Fondation LUMA, Arles, 2017

Centre Internationale de Cerisy, 2015


AWARDS AND GRANTS

Institut Français, prix Relance-Export, 2023

2012-2015

Art&Jardins, Haut de France

Vafadari family

Butane Industrial

Flora Family Foundation

Soudavar Family Foundation 

Château d’Eau, Tehran 2050,  ESA-Paris , 2008

Best diploma award, ESA-Paris, 2001


OFFICE WORK

Kirkor architects, Toronto, Canada, 2009-2012

Sardar design studio, New York, US, 2009

Naqsh-e-Jahan Pars Consulting Engineers, Téhéran, 2004-2008

Rudy Ricciotti, Bandol, 2001

Zaha Hadid, London, 1999