About

Mahan Shirazi was born in 1987 in Tehran, Iran. He completed his undergraduate education in Architecture at Tehran University and pursued his Master’s at RICE University in Houston, Texas. After graduation, he moved to New York City and has since been working there as an architectural designer. He has been invited as juror to schools across the country, including Columbia GSAPP and USC.

Mahan received Lovett Traveling Fellowship in 2011 to visit Eastern Europe and study transitional development in the urban morphology of cities that manifest particular urban conditions due to lack of long-term political stability. He later continued his research on the topic with Albert Pope, studying New Towns of Hong Kong as suburban environments that are being rapidly transformed. He has worked in several offices across the world, including StudioMiessen in Berlin, Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura in Barcelona and OLI Architecture in New York City. His current projects investigate architecture's potential to enable, catalyze and represent contingencies of the social field through form.

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