Kamran Diba
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Kamran Diba is a prominent Iranian architect.
He is famous for designing the new campus of Jondishapur University and the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. [1]
He was a visiting scholar at Cornell University for a while.
What impresses most about the architecture of Kamran Diba, who was educated in United States, is the way in which one of the great problems of our time, namely the linking of modern western civilization with the traditions of ancient cultures, has been resolved here in architecture and urban planning. Until recently Iran was the scene of an obviously far too ruthless development, primarily steered by technocratic motives, towards becoming an industrial nation of the western type. Contrary to this, the special indigenous conditions always constituted the starting point of Diba's considerations in attempting to counter-balance conflicts as far as possible. This proceedig is based on a very clear social consciousness: "My interst in architecture has always transcended its physical dimensions. One of my obsessions was to influecnce and intensify human interaction and activity... I belive that the mode of human interaction which creates particular patterns of activity within an architectural space is of utmost importance." The quality of the buildings and projects of Kamran Diba and his partners is the harmony established between the problem solving process and an architecture and aesthetic vision evolved from functional and cultural demands. The results are not only functionally appropriate from an abstract viewpoint, but prove clearly that architecture can only achieve permanence when it fulfills all its functions in harmonious unity. Kamran Diba, who in addition to his architectural activities was the director of Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, now lives and works in Europe.
Proceedings from Book Titled Kamran Diba "Building and Projects"
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