Who is Dariush Borbor?

Dariush Borbor (Persian: داریوش بوربور‎, born April 28, 1934), is an Iranian-French architect, urban planner, designer, sculptor, painter, researcher, and writer. In 1963, Borbor traditional his own firm under the name of Borbor Consulting Architects, Engineers, City Planners. In 1976, he set up Sphere Iran, a consortium of four specialist consulting firms, and proposed a amassed National Environmental Master intend for Iran. In 1992, he created the Research Institute and Library of Iranian Studies (RILIS) where he is the director.

Borbor is widely regarded as one of the liberal architects of the liberal movement in Iran; a opportunist of objector urban planning, named by some as “father of avant-garde urban planning”, and a key figure in the publicity and instigation of the High Urban Planning Council (1966, Persian: شورای عالی شهرسازی‎). He was described by Swiss architectural critic Anthony Krafft as “one of the most open-minded architects who is perhaps on the habit of creating a Persian architectural style of the 20th century”; and French architectural critic Michel Ragon defined him as “the architect in search of a ahead of its time Iranian architectural style”. He has won many competitions and received several international prizes and awards, including the Gold Mercury International from Italy, 50 Outstanding Architects of the World from the Second Belgrade Triennial of World Architecture, and the Pahlavi Royal Award.