Bahram Shirdel
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| Bahram Shirdel | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Name | Bahram Shirdel |
| Nationality | Template:Country data iran Iranian |
| Birth date | [[ Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "{"]] 1954 |
| Birth place | Tehran, Iran |
| Work | |
| Significant buildings | |
| Significant projects | Nara Convention Hall |
Bahram Shirdel (born June, 1954 in [], [[]]) is an Iranian architect.
Bahram shirdel [born June 1954,Tehran,Iran) is an Iranian Architect famous for his FOLDING method in Architectural Design.
Bahram shirdel studied at university of Toronto and then at cranbrook academy of art (close to detroit), directed by daniel libeskind (1979-82).
after cranbrook, shirdel did a year teaching at university of houston, before going to teach at GSD-Harvard. there he had a student, andrew zago, who origianlly was from detroit. the teaching of shirdel was in sympathetic battles with eisenman (who was teaching at Harvard), who also had jeff kipnis as his assistant/theorist at Harvard. after two years at Harvard, shirdel moved to Los Angeles.
in Los Angeles, shirdel, chu and zago started to work together, to look at setting up a research studio(aks-runo).the name "AKS RUNO" came from karl chu. it is derived from aks - being related to axis, line, coordinate, etc. runo - from rune, as in writing, mark, mystery markings. the names refers to "strange lines", or "secret markings".. this didn't last too long, with shirdel and zago deciding to stay working together and chu starting his own separate studio. shirdel and chu also were teaching at sci-arc (although not together).
shirdel and zago were finalist in the nara cultural centre competition (won by isozaki). their work was published in various journals.
in 1993-94 jeff kipnis was invited to the AA in london to set up the graduate design studio (the forerunner of the DRL). bahram shirdel joined kipnis to run the program in 1994. they did work on several competitions together ( cardiff bay opera house, projects in china, and Iran). The AAGDG was a post-graduate program created by architectural critic Jeff Kipnis and Bahram Shirdel in 1992. Jeff directed three programs(each lasting 16 months) and Bahram directed the final program, 1995-96
in 1996 shirdel returned to Iran (which he had left to study in Toronto many years before) and has remained there since then. he is working as an architect there, but not much is known.
