Shadi Azizi

Shadi Azizi, born in 1976, holds a master of architecture from Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) and a Ph.D. in Architecture from IAU Science and Research University. She has been teaching and conducting research as an assistant professor at IAU Central Tehran University in the school of art and architecture since 2000. In the same year, along with Hamidreza Mousavi and Ali Naghvi Namini, she founded NESHA Consulting Engineers (Nagin Shahr Ayandeh), which has been active in various fields of urban design and development, landscape design, architecture, interior architecture, and project management.

During these 21 years, Azizi has managed the urban development (urban design and planning) and landscape departments. She has also led several projects in the fields of Urban Public Spaces (urban and landscape design), Urban Regeneration, Urban River Restoration, and Strategic Planning for large-scale land developments.

Azizi has received numerous national and international awards, including The Architect Award (Memar Award) and UN-Habitat Award. In 2021, she was selected and announced as a finalist for the international Tamayouz Award in the “Women of Outstanding Achievement” category. In 2022, Shadi Aziz also won a “She Entrepreneurs” scholarship from the Swedish Institute among more than a thousand participants and received a diploma in leadership and entrepreneurship program.

In addition to publishing articles in scientific journals and speeches at specialized conferences, she was the scientific secretary of the first 19 issues of Hamshahri Architecture Magazine. She was also one of the lecturers at the 5th Asian Mayors Forum in Gaziantep and the TEDx AmirKabir University. In 2015, Azizi was the scientific secretary of the two-day interdisciplinary conference on Women, Architecture, and City.

She was the winner of the 5th and the 4th Dr. Mozayeni book award for architecture and urban design. Her latest work is the translation of the book “Bhabha for architects,” emphasizing the importance of knowing this character and his thoughts regarding post-colonial literature.

Iranian Critical Studies (ICS) is the platform that Shadi Azizi has set up and is managing in order to advance her intellectual project to create a discourse situation in an interdisciplinary space centered on the city and architecture.