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Sara Kamalvand
Exhibitions
Architecture
Research
News
Curriculum Vitae
Contact

ARTIST, ARCHITECT AND RESEARCHER


EDUCATION


2022-2025

Practise based PHD

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



2001

Master of Architecture
École Spéciale d'Architecture, Paris


EXHIBITIONS


2024
Los viajes del agua, Casa Arabe, Cordoba

Los viajes del agua, Casa Arabe, Madrid

2021

Polaris, La petite galerie, Paris

Les voyages de l’eau, Maison de l’Architecture, Nantes

2020

Journal de Fouille, Viva Villa, La Collection Lambert, Avignon

ARCO Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain, section ArtsLibris 

l’Atelier, galerie Loo&lou, Paris

2017

Tehran garden festival, Kunstfort, Amsterdam
Relief plan for a belvedere, Platform28 for art and architecture, Tehran

Reviving Mehrgerd, MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran 

2016

Iran dessus-dessous, Fondation Nicolas Michelin, Paris

2010

HydroCity, Toronto Free Gallery, Canada 


TEACHING

2024-2025

École Spéciale d'Architecture Paris

design studio L1S2

design studio L3S1

2022-2023

École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Est, Marne la Vallée

S2, fiction and representation studio

2021

École Nationale d’Architecture de Marrakesh

design studio, Master-lab,  water, cities, and landscape

2018

École Nationale de Paysage de Versailles

Diploma studio

2015-2018

École Spéciale d’Architecture

design studio S4, housing 

design studio Master-lab  "Habiter l’Anthropocène"


HYDROCITY 

personal research platform to create international workshops on water and cities

2020

"Objet-Milieu", ETSAM, Madrid 

2018

"Ingruttati Palermo", Manifesta12, UNIPA Palermo

2017

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

2014

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

2012

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


ARCHITECTURE

2022

Maison Sibel, aménagement extérieur, Le Pecq, Ile de France en collaboration avec Frank Salama

2015-2017

Cahier des Charges for the Tehran Garden Festival, in collaboration with  

12th district municipality and Art et Jardins HDF

2015

Appartement Iranshahr, Tehran

2014

Appartement Lauxerois, Paris

2008

Villa Sarvelat, Caspian sea



PUBLICATIONS

2020

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

2017

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

2012

Art, ecology and the city, Nafas Art Magazine

2010

Tehran 2050, Urban Hybridization in Modern Territories, Milan Polytechnique


CONFERENCES

2022

Berkelley Carol School, New York

2021

Vermont college of Fine Arts, US

Les Moyens du Bord, Morlaix

ENSA, Quai Malaquais, Paris,

Cité de l’Architecture, Paris

2018

Columbia Global Centres, Paris

2017

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


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

2023

Institut Français, prix Relance-Export

2016

Butane Industrial

Flora Family Foundation

Soudavar Family Foundation 

2008

Château d’Eau, ESA-Paris 

2001

Best diploma award, ESA-Paris


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, Londres, 1999