Faryar Javaherian

Biography:

Faryar Javaherian is an Iranian architect and curator, born in Mashhad, Khorassan, raised in France and educated in the United States. She studied at the University of Texas at Austin, MIT and Harvard and co-founded Gamma Consultants recognized as the leading office in Museum and Persian Garden design in Iran.The exhibitions she has curated cover the fields of architecture, landscape, photography and cinema. She has been Art Director and set decorator for ten films including Hamoon and the Pear Tree. 

She is the author of GARDENS OF IRAN: Ancient Wisdom, New Visions (Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art Publication, 2004), THIRTY YEARS OF SOLITUDE (Cambridge University Publication, 2007), and numerous articles in MEMAR to which she contributed as an editor. She has served as jury member on Memar Grand Prize and the Aga Khan Award. She has widely lectured in Iranian universities, as well as Oxford, Cambridge and Stanford universities.

 Most recently she has won the competition to build the new French School in Tehran, and is working on five museum projects. She won the Best Designer Award in 2013 from the Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization. In 2014 Memari & Sakhteman Magazine in Iran chose her as the architect of the year. She spent 2014-2015 academic year as a visiting scholar at MIT.  

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