Nasrine Seraji

Seraji, Nasrine, Sony Devabhaktuni, and Xiaoxuan Lu, eds. From Crisis to Crisis : Debates on Why Architecture Criticism Matters Today. Barcelona: ACTAR, 2019. ISBN 978-1948765053, 1948765055 OCLC 1104333432

2018: elected as Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects

2017: promoted to Officier des Arts et des Lettres

2016: promoted to Officier de l'Ordre national du Mérite

2012: Tehran Stock Exchange Competition, 3rd / Nasrine Seraji + ASAA + Mehdi Bakhshizadeh + Tadbir Omran lranian

Prof. Nasrine Seraji-Bozorgzad AA Dipl FRIBA is an Iranian-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.

2011: Chevalier de l'Ordre National de la Legion d'Honneur (14 July 2011)

2011: Le Cabanon, student center in Rue de Sophia-Antipolis, 14200 Hérouville-Saint-Clair, France

2008: Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Merite by Presidential decree

2008: Medaille d'Argent by French Academy of Architecture for her contribution to academic endeavours in archtiecture

2007: 107 km Masterplan for the city of Chongli, China

2006: Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres from the Minister of Culture in France as an architect contributing to excellence in arts and humanities

2005: extension of the Lille School of Architecture

2005: Master Plan of 105 hectares for the Hippodrome site in Penang, Malaysia

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.  

2003: 164 student housing units in Paris and 50 in Vienna, Austria

1997: Renovation of a bar 50 homes in Sarcelles (Val-d'Oise)

1995: Master Plan for the site of the gendarmerie barracks Briey (Meurthe-et-Moselle)

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 is currently Professor in Architecture.

1991: the Temporary American Centre, rue de Bercy, 12th arrondissement of Paris

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.