He showed his prodigious talent from a young age and in 1966 - shortly after graduating from the University of Tehran - he won a design competition for the “Azadi Tower”: an architectural work that was commissioned by the last Shah of Iran to mark the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Achaemenid Empire. Included in the exhibition are three of the Iranian-Canadian architect's buildings in the Bahá'í Arc in Haifa (the “Seat of the Universal House of Justice”, the “Centre for the Study of the Sacred Texts” and the “Seat of the International Teaching Centre”), as well as the “Bahá'í House of Worship” in Samoa.