Nasrine Faghih
General Information
Occupation: Architect
Date of Birth: July 04, 1944
Birth City: Tehran
Birth Country: Iran
Resident City: Paris
Resident State/Province: Ile-de-France
Resident Country: France
Archive/Repository: IAWA Special Collections, Newman Library, Ms96-023 (Ute Westrom Collection)
Sources: http://www.nasrinefaghih.com/nasrine_faghih/Welcome.html; http://www.archnet.org/shared/cv-one.jsp?user_id=74365
Specialties
Subject: Historic Preservation; Architectural Design; Urban Design; Bio-Climatic Construction; Rehabilitation Heritage Management
Jobs
Employer: Sardar Afkhami and Associates
City: Tehran
Notes: Residential Complex in Elahieh Shemiran, Bab Homayuun Renewal Auditoria for Arya Mehr University
Title: Project Manager
Notes: The Isfahan Detailed City Plan for Organic Consultant
Employer: Yale School of Art and Architecture
Title: Lecturer
Notes: History of Modern Architecture after 1945
Employer: Columbia University, School of Architecture
Title: Lecture
Notes: Anthropology of Building
Employer: Columbia University
Title: Member Center for Advanced Research
Title: Project Manager
Notes: Study and Evaluation of Iran City Planning Experience
Employer: Versailles National School of Landscape Architecture
Title: Visiting Professor
City: Paris
State: Ile-de-France
Country: France
Start Date: 1982
End Date: 1990
Employer: University of Minneapolis
Title: Visiting Professor
City: Minneapolis
State: Minnesota
Country: United States
Start Date: 1988
End Date: 1989
Employer: Tehran Museum of Contemporar Art
Title: Crator of Architecture
City: Tehran
Country: Iran
Start Date: May 1977
End Date: 1980
Collaborators
Apprenticeships
No apprenticeships on record
Awards
No awards on record
Exhibitions
No exhibitions on record
Notable Projects
Title: Benetton
City: Tehran
Country: Iran
Notes: With Amin Sadeghi and Mehran Gharleghi
Title: Shabdiz Tourist Complex
Description: Located on the legendary Silk Road. Project contains a hotel, motel, reception halls and commercial space. Design integrates desert ennviornmental architecture with contemporary ideas.
City: Semnan
Country: Iran
Notes: Under Construction.
Title: Residential Complex
Description: Five villas converge into a Club House with indoor swimming pool, sport facilities, reception areas, in a 15 hectares landscape.
City: Salahedin Kola/Caspian Shore
Country: Iran
End Date: 2007
Title: Picasso House
Description: Museum and Residence Competition Winner
City: Vaucluse
Country: France
End Date: 1986
Notes: Published in: Interiors of Privence, Taschen (1999) and Pools, Knopf, N.Y. (1994)
Title: Center for Biological Research maisons
Description: Alfort University
Country: France
Title: French Embassy
Description: Conversion of a 19th century patrician mansion into the current French Embassy.
City: Baku
Country: Azerbaijan
End Date: 2003
Notes: A transparent internal envelope that reorients the building towards an inner courtyard was used to create a sense of intimacy in a building fronting two busy streets.
Education
Institution: Istituto Universitario di Architettura
Degree: Doctorate in Architecture
End Date: 1969
Notes: Venice, Italy
Degree: Certificate In Amenagement de Territoire, E.H.P. Paris
Institution: Yale University
Department: School of Architecture
Degree: Masters of Environmental Design
End Date: 1973
Licensing
No licenses on record
Professional Affiliations
Organization: NGO Boostan International Solidarity
Role: President
Organization: Aga Khan Award for Architecture
Role: Founding Member
Organization: Institut des Conseillers en Environnement pour le Batiment (ICEB)
Role: Active Member
Notes: www.assohqe.org
Organization: European Community
Role: Individual Expert
Notes: http://ec.europa.eu
Publications By
Title: Venturi et L'espace Publicitaire
Publication: Architecture, Mouvement, Continuite
Title: Sign and Structure in Charles Moore Architecture
Publication: Progressive Architecture
Title: Isfahan, The Pedestrian City
Publication: Public lecture and Brochure
Notes: for the Exhibition More Streets for People, New York
Title: Siraf, Structure of the Early Medieval Islamic City
Publication: Honar-Va-Mardom
Title: Rehabilitation in Dardasht
Publication: Architectural Review
Title: Isfahan, A Medieval Iranian City Planning
Publication: XIVth Volume of Survey of Persian Art
Title: The Casbah of Algiers: An Urgent Problem of Conservation
Date Published: 1980
Title: Rehabilitation in Dardasht
Publication: Isfahan
Volume: 159
Issue: 951
Page: 315 - 319
Publisher: The Architectural Press Ltd.
Country: England (U.K.)
Date Published: 1976
Notes: This article focuses on the rehabilitation efforts in Dardasht, the old quarter north of the bazaar area and west of the Friday Mosque, where traditional courtyard houses are being abandoned for modern homes in the suburbs.
Title: Architects Abroad
Co-author: Ahmet Gulgonen
Publication: MIMAR 41: Architecture in Development
Publisher: Concept Media
City: London
Country: England (U.K.)
Date Published: 1991