Heydar-Gholi Khan Ghiaï-
Chamlou (
Persian: حیدرقلی خان غیایی شاملو; 23 October 1922 – 6 September 1985)[1] was an
Iranian architect. He graduated from the
École des Beaux-Arts in 1952, and was known as a pioneer of
modernarchitecture in Iran. He designed the
Senate House, the Royal Tehran Hilton Hotel, several train stations, cinemas, various civic and government buildings and the first series of state of the art hospitals. In France, he designed the Cité Universitaire aka Avicenne Foundation, amongst others.
In 1968, he was nominated architect to the imperial court of Iran and commissioned the vast project of a complex of imperial palaces situated in Farah Abad.
As a professor of architecture at the
University of Tehran, he taught several generations of architects.
Heydar Ghiaï-Chamlou was born in
Tehran on 23 October 1922, decisively settled in
France later, where he died on 6 September 1985 in
Cap d'Antibes.
The firm of Heydar Ghiaï & Associates has now been renamed Ghiaï Architects, based in San Francisco headed by his son Yves Ghiaï and his grand daughter Anahita Ghiaï.
Architectural philosophy
Quotes
"Proportion is not a principle of architecture, but a principle of Life."[2]
"Man has a basic need for certain shapes, imparted to him by his civilization and corresponding to his immediate needs. In them he discovers himself."[2]
"I know a place where glass and concrete brush against the light, sparkling with delight."[2]
Distinctions
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