Amir Abbas Aboutalebi interviews Hamed Khosravi

August 4, 2025

About Hamed Khosravi

Hamed Khosravi is an architect, writer, and educator. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran. Hamed holds his Masters in Architecture from Iran University of Science and Technology, and Post-graduate masters in Urbanism at TU Delft and Istituto di Architettura di Venezia (IUAV). He received his PhD in History and Theory of Architecture from ‘The City as a Project’ program at TU Delft/ Berlage Institute.

Khosravi has been teaching History and Theory courses, seminars, and design studios in various schools of architecture. He is the Chair of the Academic Committee at the Architectural Association School of Architecture. Currently he is a Studio Master, running Diploma Unit 7 and the Projective Cities MPhil programme at the AA and a Visiting Professor at EPFL. Previously Khosravi held a senior lecturer position at the London South Bank University; coordinated graduation studio and TT research group, taught History & Theory courses and design studios at TU Delft Faculty of Architecture; had an associate lecturer position at the School of Architecture, Oxford Brookes University; and was a studio master at the Berlage Institute. In 2016-17 Hamed completed a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam on ‘Labour Movements and the Architecture of the City’.

Hamed is co-founder of research collectives, The City as a Project, based in London; active in architectural education at the Phd and post-graduate levels as well as research and curatorial projects. Khosravi’s projects are exhibited internationally at the Venice Biennale 2014, 2016, and 2018, Barcelona Architecture Festival: Model 2022, Sharjah Architecture Triennial 2019, Oslo Architecture Triennial 2016, Lisbon Architecture Triennial 2016, Dallas Museum of Art, Maxxi Museum (Rome), Enric Miralles Foundation (Barcelona), Triumph Gallery (Moscow), Anise Gallery (London), and Campo (Rome). His latest project, a research-based curatorial project on the work of Zoe Zenghelis, was exhibited in London (AA, 2021, Betts Project, 2020-21) and Pittsburgh (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2022).

As a writer, Hamed regularly publishes articles, essays, and books. He is the author of Gabriel Guevrekian: The Elusive Modernist (2020), editor and co-author of Tehran- Life Within Walls (2017), co-author of Nazgol Ansarinia: Inquiries into the Present (2021), Sir Banister Fletcher’s History of Architecture, 21st Edition (2020), Rituals and Walls: The Architecture of Sacred Space (2016), The City as a Project (2013), Cities to be Tamed (2013), among other titles. He co-edited Aesthetics and Politics of Logistics (2019) and co-curated Tehran: Wake Up! An Anthology of Bidari-e Ma (2019). His recent book, Do You Remember How Perfect Everything Was? The Work of Zoe Zenghelis, is published by AA Publications in 2022.

Following a conversation with renowned Iranian artist Padideh Azin, Amir Abbas Aboutalebi, editor-in-chief of The Villa magazine, invited Hamed Khosravi for an exclusive interview during his visit to Tehran. The meeting took place at The Villa magazine office in Tehran on August 4, 2025, where the historical origins and the architectural phenomenon of Villa were discussed.

 

Villa, a Model "With and Against" Power, Capital, and Dominant Modes of Production 

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