Bahram Shirdel
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Bahram Shirdel is an Iranian architect internationally known as one of the most influential architects dealing with interdisciplinary field of architecture & science & also Fold/Folding Architecture. Jeffrey Kipnis, Greg Lynn
, Peter Eisenman
& Bahram Shirdel are among the architect-theoricians who accept topology as a cultural & scientific resource of folded, curved, undulated & twisted architectures. They are concerned with the dynamic aspects of topological geometry - that is, with the more general processes of continuous transformation.
Bahram Shirdel has been the director of Graduate Design program at the Architectural Association School of architecture, London, & has taught design & theory at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard university
, university of Houston, Texas, Georgia Institute of Technology, university Chicago, university of Miami, Ohio state university & Southern California Institute of Architecture. Bahram Shirdel was a recipient of Christopher Wren Medal from Canada & CGA Gold Medal city planning from China. His work has been widely exhibited worldwide; Venice Biennale of Architecture
1984 & the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1992.
Shirdel & Partners office in Tehran was established in 1997, after practicing in London as Shirdel & Kipnis Architects & practicing as Aks-Runo in Los Angeles. During these years this practice designed projects in the U.S., Canada, Japan, China, & Brazil & worldwide; where the firm applied its research & theory to the spatial organization of large scale & complex projects. He left Tehran for Dubai in 2007 after doing many significant projects never built, after many young Iranian architects got taught in his office & after years of continuously being challenged & criticized by majority of Iranian conservative architects.
Greg Lynn
Greg Lynn is owner of the Greg Lynn FORM office, an o. Univ. Professor of architecture at University of Applied Arts Vienna, a studio professor at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, and the Davenport Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Architecture. He was the winner of the Golden...
, Peter Eisenman
Peter Eisenman
Peter Eisenman is an American architect. Eisenman's professional work is often referred to as formalist, deconstructive, late avant-garde, late or high modernist, etc...
& Bahram Shirdel are among the architect-theoricians who accept topology as a cultural & scientific resource of folded, curved, undulated & twisted architectures. They are concerned with the dynamic aspects of topological geometry - that is, with the more general processes of continuous transformation.
Bahram Shirdel has been the director of Graduate Design program at the Architectural Association School of architecture, London, & has taught design & theory at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard university
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, university of Houston, Texas, Georgia Institute of Technology, university Chicago, university of Miami, Ohio state university & Southern California Institute of Architecture. Bahram Shirdel was a recipient of Christopher Wren Medal from Canada & CGA Gold Medal city planning from China. His work has been widely exhibited worldwide; Venice Biennale of Architecture
Venice Biennale of architecture
Mostra di Architettura di Venezia, the Architecture section of the Venice Biennale, was established in 1980, although architecture had been a part of the art biennale since 1968....
1984 & the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1992.
Shirdel & Partners office in Tehran was established in 1997, after practicing in London as Shirdel & Kipnis Architects & practicing as Aks-Runo in Los Angeles. During these years this practice designed projects in the U.S., Canada, Japan, China, & Brazil & worldwide; where the firm applied its research & theory to the spatial organization of large scale & complex projects. He left Tehran for Dubai in 2007 after doing many significant projects never built, after many young Iranian architects got taught in his office & after years of continuously being challenged & criticized by majority of Iranian conservative architects.