Hossein Amanat

Hossein Amanat (b. 1942) is an Iranian-Canadian architect. He is best known as the architect of the Shahyad Tower (renamed as Azadi Tower after the 1979 revolution) in Tehran, Iran, the Baháʼí Arc buildings in Haifa, Israel and the House of Worship in Samoa. He has also been designated as the architect of the future Shrine of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá.
Practice
As a young graduate from the University of Tehran. He is one the students of Hooshang seyhoon. He won a nationwide competition in 1966 to design the Shahyad Tower, renamed the Azadi Tower in 1979. This first architectural project led to the opportunity to create some of Iran's most distinctive projects with reference to traditional Persian architecture. Amongst them are the initial buildings of the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran., the Persian Heritage Center, the Faculty for Business Management of the Tehran University and the Embassy of Iran in Beijing, China. As a member of the persecuted Baháʼí Faith, Amanat fled the country during the 1979 Iranian Revolution. He is the brother of Abbas Amanat, Professor of History & International Studies at Yale University.
Since moving to Canada in 1980, Hossein Amanat designed the three administrative buildings on the Baháʼí Arc in Haifa, Israel, the Baháʼí House of Worship in Samoa, the Jiang'an Library for the Sichuan University, the media library for the Beijing Broadcasting Institute. He designed religious and cultural centers for the Baháʼí Faith near Dallas, Seattle and Washington, D.C., several multifamily condominiums in Santa Monica, and mixed-use high-rise buildings in San Diego and Burnaby.
On 7 May 2019 the Universal House of Justice announced Amanat as the architect of the future Shrine of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá.
List of projects
Shahyad monument (Azadi tower ) 1971
Pasargad archeological museum 1973
Sharif university (Aryamehr university) 1975
Faculty of business management university 1980
Iranian embassy in Beijing 1983
Seat of the universal house of justice 1983
Samoa house of worship 1984
Center for the study of the text 2001
International teaching center 2001÷
International Archives extension 2001
World administrative center 2001
Horizons tower 2001
Plano Baha`i community center 2004
Sichuan university center library 2005
Bellevue Baha`i community center 2006
Loudoun Baha`i community center 2007
Legacy 2008
Bayside 2009
Amanat office 2009
Beijing broadcasting institute library 2011
National holocaust monument competition 2011
zonda 2016
Arris 2017
Savina 2017
One 88 2018
777 front 2019
Awards
2001 American Concrete Institute Award
1995 Excellence in Building Design, Marble from Greece Competition
1985 Tucker Award for Architectural Excellence
1975 Royal Pahlavi Medal for Design
1971 Medal of Art - Iranian Ministry of Education
See also
List of historical Iranian architects
References
External links
Amanat Architect
BBC interview with Hossein Amanat, October 2007
A list of Canadian Baháʼís in the news
BBC interview: The man behind Tehran's Freedom Monument July 2009
1942 births
Canadian Bahá'ís
Canadian architects
Iranian Bahá'ís
Iranian emigrants to Canada
Iranian architects
Living people
University of Tehran alumni
Alborz High School alumni
20th-century Bahá'ís
21st-century Bahá'ís
Exiles of the Iranian Revolution in Canada