He is a 2011 graduate of the Institute for advance architecture of Catalonia (IaaC) in Barcelona, Spain. He established his Tehran office in 2011 and since has designed a number of projects in varying categories and scales. His design approach is based on urban context, geography and local construction techniques which has lead to several architecture awards such as The World Architecture Festival in 2014 and Iran MEMAR architecture award in different years. Farshad began his academic activities in 2007, and his research focuses primarily on geography and the relation and responsiveness of technique, material and geometry in performative structures in various geographical contexts. He has collaborated with several universities in different countries and, the most recent being the architecture faculty of the University of Melbourne in Australia.