Faryar Javaherian

Biography

Faryar Javaherian is an Iranian architect, curator, and author. Born in Mashhad, she was raised in Paris and educated in the United States, earning a Bachelor of Architecture with High Honors from the University of Texas at Austin in 1973, followed by a Master's in Urban Design from MIT and Harvard in 1976. She co-founded Gamma Consultants in 2004 with Fereydoun Bader, establishing the practice as a leading office in museum and Persian garden design in Iran. Her major built works include the Iranian Calligraphers Society Complex and Gardens (1995-1997), the Venus Glass Office Building (2005-2006), and the Aghdassieh Apartment Complex in Tehran (2007). She won the 2009 competition for the new French School in Tehran and completed the Calligraphy Museum of Iran in 2018. Beyond architecture, Javaherian has curated numerous exhibitions spanning architecture, landscape, photography, and cinema. She has worked as an art director and set decorator for ten Iranian films including Hamoon and The Pear Tree, cult classics of Iranian cinema directed by Dariush Mehrjui. She served on the Master Jury of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2010 and on the jury of the 7th Memar Award (2007). In 2013, she received the Best Designer Award from Miras, and in 2014 she was named Architect of the Year by Memari & Sakhteman Magazine. She was a Visiting Scholar at MIT (2014-2015) and has lectured at Oxford, Cambridge, and Stanford. She is the author of Gardens of Iran: Ancient Wisdom, New Visions (2004) and Thirty Years of Solitude (2007), and a contributor and editor of Memar Magazine.