page_title: Architects of Iran
section_title: Contemporary
hierarchical_section_title: Architects of Iran / Contemporary
caption_attribution_description: Iran Palais du Senat English: The second building of the Iranian Parliament فارسی: ساختمان قدیمی مجلس شورای اسلامی
context_page_description: Traditionally, Iranian architects were known as Mi'mars.
  The Persian dictionary of Mo'in defines Mi'mar as:
  That who devises the design and plan of a building, and overlooks its construction.
  A Banna
  That who is responsible for the building, developing, and repairs of a structure or edifice.
  Classical words Banna, Mohandes, Ostad, and Amal which appear in classical manuals and references of Islamic architecture.
  Although many scholars do not recognize the Mimar and the Architect to historically be the same, they do agree that their responsibilities overlap extensively. In this list, they are taken to be the same.
  The list is in chronological order and selectively spans the Islamic age based on available records. There is little, if any, record of the numerous masters of architecture that built some of the early Islamic and pre-Islamic world's wonders of Iran. It is unknown who built the palaces of Bishapur, Firouzabad, Persepolis, Susa, or the many other spectacular ancient edifices of Greater Iran. No record of their names exists. Only the ruins of what they built give us a faint indication of what masters must have walked the face of this earth eons ago.
context_section_description: Dariush Borbor
  Kamran Afshar Naderi
  Keyvan Khosrovani
  Hossein Amanat
  Kamran Diba (Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts/Niavaran garden and cultural complex)
  Abdol-Aziz Mirza Farmanfarmaian (University of Tehran mosques and technical college/Azadi sport complex/Niavaran Palace)
  Abbas Gharib
  Heydar Ghiai ( Iran's Senate House )
  Nasser Golzari
  Nader Khalili
  Pouya Khazaeli
  Mouzhan Majidi
  Tahmineh Milani
  Hadi Mirmiran (Winner of many 1990s major competitions and the only architect to win a medal of honor in art after the revolution)
  Mohammad-Karim Pir Nia
  Mohsen Mostafavi
  Farshid Moussavi
  Fariborz Sahba
  Ali Akbar Saremi
  Hooshang Seyhoon (Ibn sina monument/Nader shah Monument/Baba Taher Monument)
  Bahram Shirdel
  Iraj Kalantari Taleghani
  Nader Tehrani
  Siavash Teimouri
caption: Iranian Senate building by Heydar Ghiaï-Chamlou
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