Amirabbas Aboutalebi

Biography:

Amir Abbas Aboutalebi is a practicing Architect, Scholar, and Editor in chief of Villa Magazine. He was born in 1977 in Tehran, Iran. In 2008, he founded "AA Design studio" in Tehran, which is dedicated to architectural design practices. The studio takes an interdisciplinary approach, combining culture, health, sense, and ethics with context-aware and human-centered concepts and ideas. Amir's notable works include the Kavehglass building and Sib villa, which highlight ECO Design principles influenced by Dr. Ken Yeang's philosophy. In 2015, he established the printed and digital Villa Magazine, serving as a medium and platform for architectural workshops, discourses, interviews, critics, campaigns, and reviews. The magazine aims to foster cultural interactions and idea exchanges between Iranian artists/architects and other art/architecture societies worldwide. Amir is currently a PHD candidate at the ETH University of Architecture, focusing on the topic of "In-Between Space: A Modern Paradigm Inspired by Ancient Japanese 'Ma' Concept and Traditional Iranian 'Empty Space'."

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