Nashid Nabian

Biography

Nashid Nabian is an Iranian architect, researcher, and educator. She earned her Master's in Architectural Engineering from Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran, a Master of Urban Design from the University of Toronto (receiving the Toronto Association of Young Architects award for her thesis), and a Doctorate in Design (DDes) from Harvard Graduate School of Design, followed by a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at the MIT SENSEable City Lab. She has taught at Harvard GSD, MIT, University of Toronto, Northeastern University, and Rice University. From 2005 to 2012, she was a partner at Arsh Design Studio, and in 2012 co-founded Shift Process Practice with Rambod Eilkhani. As lead architect of Shift Process Practice, she designed Iran's Pavilion at Dubai Expo 2020, which Architectural Digest named one of the eight architecturally significant pavilions. She also founded the Tehran Urban Innovation Center (TUIC), focused on smart city solutions. Her research explores the digital augmentation of architecture and public spaces through situated technologies.