Professor Nasrine Seraji-Bozorgzad AA Dipl FRIBA, is an Iranian-born French-British architect. She is a 2011 recipient of the Knight of the Legion of Honour, an Officier of l'Ordre national du Mérite and l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Early life.
Seraji was born in Tehran, Iran.
Career.
After studying at the Architectural Association and practising in London, Seraji moved to Paris in 1989 to establish her studio where architecture is treated as both a cultural debate and a practice.  Since then, she has pursued a path constantly enriched by her simultaneous engagement in architectural practice, teaching, and research.  She has lectured and exhibited her work widely in Europe, North America, China, and South East Asia.
Academic.
Between 1993 and 2001, Seraji taught at Columbia University GSAPP in New York, at the Architectural Association in London as Diploma Unit Master, and Princeton University as Visiting Professor.  During this time, she also taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna where she directed one of the two architecture Master Schools.  Seraji was Professor and Chair of the Department of Architecture at Cornell University from 2001 to 2005.  In 2006, she became Dean of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais by Presidential decree.  That same year, she returned to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna where she held the position of Professor of Ecology, Sustainability and Conservation, as well as Head of the Institute for Art and Architecture.  She served as the Head of the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong where she was also Professor in Architecture. She is currently Full Professor of Architectural Design at University College Dublin, Visiting Critic at Rice Architecture Paris, and Distinguished Professor of Architectural Design and Research at Michael Graves College of Wenzhou-Kean University.
Professional practice.
Architect of the Temporary American Centre in Paris, Seraji has completed several notable buildings and projects, including apartment buildings in Vienna, student housing in Paris (2003) and an extension to the School of Architecture in Lille (2006), the latter were both nominated for the Mies Van der Rohe Prize in 2005 and 2007 respectively. Seraji was among the Jury members of the second 2A Continental Architectural Award held at Vienna, Austria in 2016. Big Heavy Beautiful, a complex mixed-use building for the Paris Transportation Authority comprising 213 housing units, a crèche, a bus depot and an associative garden was inaugurated in 2017.
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