2022

Name: Memar Award 2022
Start: 2023-06-10
Location: Tehran

Memar Award

Édition 2241 résultats10 juin 2023

Membres du jury

Armand Dror

Armand Dror is an Iranian designer and architectural critic. He graduated in Industrial Design from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Tehran in 1993. He began his professional design practice in 1991 with the establishment of his design studio. He has collaborated with Memar Magazine since 2001 and has been a member of its editorial board since 2003, serving as guest editor for five issues of the magazine. A prominent voice in Iranian architectural discourse, his critical writings and editorial work have shaped contemporary design debates in Iran.

Ehsan Hosseini

Ehsan Hosseini (b. 1981, Tehran) is an Iranian architect based in Isfahan. M.Arch from the University of Art (2007). Co-founded LP Office (Logical Process in Architectural Design) with Elham Geramizadeh Naeini in 2006. A multiple Memar Award winner: 1st Place for House in Jolfa District and Houses Between River & Stream (2021), 1st Place for Retiring Together (2024), and 2nd Place for Bidabad House (2010), Nadjvan Garden Residential Complex (2013), and Villa for Anna & Saeed (2015). Won 1st Prize at the 2A Asia Architecture Award for Mahoor Bazar (2016) and 2nd Prize at the 2A Europe Architecture Award for Berlin House (2017). Three-time Aga Khan Award for Architecture nominee. His work is characterized by contextual responses to Isfahan's historic urban fabric and climate.

À propos de cette édition

The 22nd Memar Award, published in Memar 140 (August-September 2023, Mordad-Shahrivar 1402), was an unprecedented edition completing what had started in Memar 136. Due to special social circumstances in 2022 (1401), the judging was delayed and the results split across two issues. The competition followed the established two-phase format with site visits and collective discussions. Projects were evaluated in four categories: Individual Dwellings, Apartment Buildings, Public Buildings, and Renovation.

Statistiques

26Finalistes

15Lauréats

Processus de jugement

Projects are divided into four groups: Apartment Buildings, Individual Dwellings, Public Buildings, and Renovation. All entries in each group are displayed together for jury review; unanimously rejected entries are eliminated. Each remaining entry is discussed collectively. Each juror selects 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place votes (scoring 3, 2, 1 points). Total scores determine rankings. Tied projects share the placement. Assessment criteria include: architectural quality, environmental response, functionality, innovation, and social commitment.

Semifinalists — Public Buildings

The Editor

Majid Ghamami

Majid Ghamami (born 1948, Tehran) is an Iranian architect and urban planner. He holds a Master of Architecture (1975) and a Master of Urban Planning (1979), both from the University of Tehran. His architectural portfolio includes residential and service buildings at consulting engineering firms (1974–77), educational buildings at the Organization for School Renovation (1977–85), two single-family houses in Tabriz and Isfahan (1976–77), an apartment building in Tehran (1984–85), and a villa in Mazandaran (1996). In urban planning, he has directed numerous master plans, detailed plans, and urban renewal projects (1986–2016), and authored six books on urban issues and planning (2003–2022). He has published over forty articles in professional journals including Abadi, Memar and Shahr, delivered lectures at numerous conferences, and served on multiple jury panels for architectural and urban design competitions (1991–2011). He presented research at the Architecture and the City Seminar at Tehran's Andisheh Cultural Center in 2013, organized by the Iranian Architecture Center.

Mehdi Alizadeh

Mehdi Alizadeh (born 1935) is one of Iran's most distinguished architects, known for designing some of the country's most iconic public and institutional buildings. He graduated in Architecture from the University of Tehran, Faculty of Fine Arts, and built a remarkable career spanning over four decades. His portfolio includes Hotel Laleh (formerly the Tehran Intercontinental Hotel), one of Tehran's most recognizable modernist landmarks; the Iran Center for Management Studies (now Imam Sadegh University); Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman; the Ararat Sport Complex; the Central Office of Behshahr Industrial Group; and the Conference Center of Toseye Saderat Bank. Alizadeh also served as a technical leader at Ove Arup and Partners in London, bringing international structural engineering expertise to his practice. He served on the jury panels of the 2nd and 3rd Memar Awards (2002–2003), evaluating the best of contemporary Iranian architecture alongside Pritzker laureate Fumihiko Maki and AA School chairman Mohsen Mostafavi.

Sirous Bavar

Sirous (Cyrus) Bavar (born 1934, Shiraz) is an Iranian architect, urban planner, and architectural educator. He graduated in architecture from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Tehran and earned his PhD in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Florence, Italy. He served as head of the Architecture Department and Urban Planning Department, was a faculty member at the University of Tehran (1971-79), a member of the Urban Master Plan Review Council at the Ministry of Housing, a founding board member of the first Tehran Architecture Organization (1977), and director and designer of the master plans for Shiraz, Yazd, and the Industrial City of Saveh.