World-Renowned Iranian Architect Pouya Khazaeli Parsa at Our University!

Pouya Khazaeli Parsa (Rai Studio)

Pouya Khazaeli Parsa was born in Iran in 1975. He completed his bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture at Azad University between 1993 and 2000. Speaking Persian, English and French, Parsa worked from September 1999 to February 2000 in the design team of Shirdel and Partners in Iran on the design project for the Iranian consulate building in Caracas, Venezuela. Between March and September 2002, he was part of the team at Naghsh-e-Jahan Pars that designed the Iranian consulate building in Zimbabwe. From 2002 to 2005, he worked as a freelance architect. During this period, he carried out the Darvish Residence and Ramezan Nejad Residence projects in Mazandaran, Iran, and the facade design of an 8-story building in Tehran. From November 2005 to June 2006, he was in the design team at Shigeru Ban's European office in Paris, working on the Metz Pompidou Center, Taubman Residence, Dellis Cay The Hotel and Resort Project, Île Seguin Project, OCMA Competition and Dijon (Habitation) projects. In 2007, he went to Japan and started working at Shigeru Ban Architects' office in Tokyo. He worked with the team on the Abu Dhabi Sheikh Zayed National Museum competition, the André Balázs Hotel and a penthouse project in New York. Since 2007, Parsa has been working as director at Rai Studio in Iran. His residential project in Bojnurd and office building designs in Pardis are ongoing, while villa projects in Darvishabad and Khanehdarya are under construction. Pouya Khazaeli Parsa was part of the group that won third prize in the architecture and urbanism competition "A World Pavilion" in 2004. In 2005, he won the Kamaledin Behzad award at the 4th Tehran Sculpture Biennial. He won the Memar Award for the best residential building built in Iran, taking second place in 2006 and first place in 2009. Some of Parsa's works have been featured since 2002 in publications such as Golestaneh, Memar, Domus and the Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century Architecture.

Conference: 23 March 2010, 19:00; Bahçeşehir University Beşiktaş Campus

Important: The conference is open to all and free of charge. There is no invitation or registered entry system. The conference will be simultaneously interpreted from English into Turkish.