About me

I am an architect by training, a multidisciplinary artist-curator, and a researcher originally from Iran, currently based in Barcelona. My practice focuses on questions of space and identity, as well as the relationship between cultural heritage and contemporaneity, and explores how individual acts, collective presence, and cultural narratives influence the ways people inhabit and perceive the world.

I hold a PhD in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Barcelona, where my research examined applications of digital technologies in cultural heritage. As part of my exploration of digital potentials, I developed Girih, a Grasshopper plug-in for Rhino3D that extends the algorithmic generation of traditional Islamic patterns. I am also the author of Algorithmic Architecture, an early study of computational design logics and their broader implications.

In addition, I curate Patternitecture, an interdisciplinary project and biennial exhibition investigating how pattern systems influence cultural perception and the built environment. Since its inception in 2015, the project has hosted four events and collaborated with around 100 artists from Iran and around the world.

Currently, I am working on a project titled “Boundaries that Expand; Where We Stand”, which challenges human limitations and societal boundaries. The first installation was presented in Iran, and the second edition traveled to Barcelona, showcased at Circulo de Ecuestre as part of the 5th edition of the “By Invitation” exhibition in 2024.

At present, I am curating “ToMerge”, a project exploring collective art and highlighting how individual presence, identity, and agency are dynamically shaped through co-creation.

As a multidisciplinary artist, I integrate digital technologies with traditional fabrication methods to challenge the limits of materiality, structure, and the experience of space. Through spatial interventions, I explore states of partial belonging, suspended identity, and the boundaries through which we situate ourselves within larger systems.

In my architecture practice, I collaborate on the development of creative spatial installations and ephemeral architecture, blending technology with art, to create new spatial experiments.