Publications

Edited Journals

hyphen Architecture Journal, Issue No.3: Spolia (Call for Submissions)
Edited by A. Mohseni, A. Ackerman, and H. Riazi

Pennsylvania State University, Department of Architecture. Summer 2026

hyphen Architecture Journal, Issue No.2: Emergence
S. Ahrar (Editor), K. Govindarazan and H. Riazi (Assistant Editor)

Pennsylvania State University, Department of Architecture. Summer 2025

Articles Published in Refereed Journals

“Picturing Iranian Modernity: A Modernist Architecture Journal of the Pahlavi Dynasty.” In ConCave Ph.D. Symposium: Divergence in Architectural Research. Georgia Tech, Atlanta, 2025.
https://doi.org/10.35090/gatech/13097

Following the modernization process in Iran started by Reza Shah (1925–1941), Mohammad Reza Shah (1941–1979), his reformist son, began institutionalizing professions and establishing associations, including the Association of Iranian Graduate Architects (AIGA) in 1945 and the Association of Iranian Architects (AIA) circa 1968. Considering this historical background and looking at the reciprocal relationship between the colonizer and the colonized, this paper takes up the notion of reciprocal gaze in colonial studies to better understand the role of modernity in the architectural context of Iran during the reign of Mohammad Reza Shah. Starting with problematizing the notion of the World Picture and taking distance from Edward Said’s East-West binary, this paper focuses instead on the heterogeneity of the spectrum between these binary models rather than the oversimplified and generalized categorization of the colonizer as the dominant and the colonized as the passive subject. In this way, the in-betweenness acknowledges the complexities of power dynamics and makes it possible to think about other forms of power. This paper invites a close reading of the only all-English issue of the architecture journal Honar va Me’māri, published in 1973, to demonstrate the double concern of Iranian architects about seeing and being seen on the international stage. More than just a publication, Honar va Me’māri, a journal established by young architects, became the site for exploring the space between tradition and modernity, old and new, and the state’s ideology of making a new nation and their own avant-garde practice.

“Freaking Out on the Floor.” Hyphen, no. 1, 2023.
https://doi.org/10.59236/hyphen1175.

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I am scared, scared of being enclosed by multi-s.
The inevitable condition of being exposed to multiplicity puts my understanding of instability at stake, problematizing it with an imposed cynical meaning.
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I am scared, scared of watching these seven screens.
Because I was told that the multiplicity of these screens stresses the instability.
Who is not scared of watching Organs without Body?
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I am scared, scared of colors.
What color is the sacred?
What color is deceiving?
What can be done by multiplicity of colors?

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I am scared, scared of becoming-woman.
Because I see my folks on the floor.
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I am scared;
scared of multiplicity,
scared of Organs without Body,
scared of colors,
and
scared of becoming.

Postiglione, Gennaro, Emanuela Ragazzoni, Houman Riazi Jorshari, and others. “Nature on the Border.” In MIAW 2019: 5 Chances to Make Public Space with Nature. Siracusa: LetteraVentidue Edizioni, 2019.
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