Bahram Shirdel is an Iranian architect internationally known as one of the most influential architects dealing with the interdisciplinary field of architecture and science as well as Fold/Folding Architecture.

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and Bahram Shirdel are among the architect-theoricians who accept topology as a cultural and scientific resource of folded, curved, undulated and twisted architectures. They are concerned with the dynamic aspects of

topological geometry Topological geometry deals with incidence structures consisting of a point set P and a family \mathfrak of subsets of P called lines or circles etc. such that both P and \mathfrak carry a topology and all geometric operations like joining points by ...

- that is, with the more general processes of continuous transformation. Professor Bahram Shirdel has been the director of Graduate Design program at the

Architectural Association School of Architecture The Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, commonly referred to as the AA, is the oldest private school of architecture in the UK. The AA hosts exhibitions, lectures, academic conference, symposia and publications. Histo ...

in London (where he also co-lectured with his working partner

Jeff Kipnis Jeffrey Kipnis (born 1951, Georgia) is an American architectural critic, theorist, designer, film-maker, curator, and educator. Education, honors, and career Although neither educated nor trained as an architect, Kipnis first came to prominence in ...

), and co-supervised diploma projects with

at the Graduate School of Design at

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. He has also taught design and theory at the University of Houston, Texas; Georgia Institute of Technology, University Chicago, University of Miami, Ohio State University,

Southern California Institute of Architecture Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) is a private architecture school in Los Angeles, California. SCI-Arc was founded in 1972 when it was initially regarded as both institutionally and artistically avant-garde. It consists o ...

and

American University of Sharjah The American University of Sharjah (AUS; Arabic: الجامعة الأميركية في الشارقة) is a private university in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. It was founded in 1997 by Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi, Supreme Council Member a ...

, U.A.E. Bahram Shirdel was a recipient of Christopher Wren Medal from Canada and CGA Gold Medal city planning from China. His work has been widely exhibited worldwide;

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1984 and the

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, in 1992. ''Shirdel and Partners'' office was established in Tehran in 1997, after practicing in London as ''Shirdel and Kipnis Architects'' and practicing as ''Aks-Runo'' in Los Angeles. During these years this practice designed projects in the U.S., Canada, Japan, China, Brazil, etc.; where the firm applied its design techniques, research and theory to the spatial organization of large scale and complex projects.

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