Alireza Sagharchi

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Alireza Sagharchi RIBA FRSA (born 1959) is a British architect. He received his Diploma in Architecture from the University of Westminster, London in 1986. Before setting up his own practice, Sagharchi was for 15 years the Senior Associate at Porphyrios Associates, a firm whose work follows the principles of traditional architecture and urbanism.

He has been responsible for a number of high-profile projects. These include master-planning in commercial, resort/leisure and private residential sector in the United Kingdom, Europe, North America and the Middle East.

Notable among these projects are a villa in the south of France, embassies in Mayfair and Belgravia in London, the New Qandrangle and Theatre for Magdalen College in Oxford, the Kings Cross regeneration preliminary master plan in London, Princeton University Whitman College master plan, office buildings in Athens, Reading and Birmingham, England and luxury hotels in Germany, Greece and Egypt.

Sagharchi has taught at the Prince of Wales' Institute of Architecture.^[1] He has been a visiting critic at Yale and Greenwich Universities and the Notre Dame summer schools. He serves on the executive committee of the Traditional Architecture Group at the RIBA ^[2] and sits on the Casework Panel of the Georgian Group.^[3] He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and he is a member of the College of Practitioners of the International Network for Traditional Building Architecture and Urbanism.^[4] His Danube Delta Resort project was recently was distinguished and selected for exhibition by the judges at the Philippe Rotthier European Prize for Architecture.^[5]

[edit] Articles

• The Independent, Danube Delta, June 2005
• The Mail on Sunday, Danube Delta, July 2005
• Architecture Today, Danube Delta, March 2004
• The Times, House in Knightsbridge, 12 December 2003
• The Times, House in Knightsbridge, 8 March 2003
• Building, Kings Cross Masterplan, December 2001
• Building, Rochester Masterplan, March 2000
• Architecture Today,Brindleyplace, January 1999
• Architecture Today, Magdalen, February 1997
• Architecture Today, Brindleyplace, September 1996
• Architectural Design, Paternoster Sq, June 1992
• Architects Journal, Magdalen, November 1991
• Arquitectonica, House in Kensington, June 1990
• Architectural Design, Vol 57, March 1987
• Architectural Design, Vol 56, September 1986
• Architectural Design, Vol 56, August 1986

[edit] Publications

• Real Architecture
• AD, Architecture in Arcadia
• AD, Interventions in Historic centers
• Demetri Porphyrios Buildings & Writings
• Porphyrios Associates Monograph
• Building Classical, A Vision of Europe and America

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