Nasrin Seraji

Self Intro

Nasrin Seraji, recently appointed Distinguished Professor of Architectural Design and Research at the Michael Graves School of Public Architecture, in WKU has had a distinguished career in both academia and architectural practice.
She has taught in leading schools such as the Architectural Association, Princeton, Columbia; and served as Professor and Chair of Architecture at Cornell University, Director of ENSA Paris-Malaquais for ten years, and Professor and Head of Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong. She is currently a Full Professor of Architectural Design at University College Dublin.
Professor Seraji’s architecture studio has produced many notable projects, from the Temporary American Centre in the French capital which started her career to Big-heavy-beautiful, a complex mixed-use building for the Paris transport authority that was inaugurated in 2017. The student housing project in Paris and the School of Architecture in Lille earned the studio two nominations for the Mies van der Rohe Prize, and the Romeo and Juliette apartments was granted a special mention of the Équerre d’Argent.
Professor Seraji AA DIPL FRIBA has received a number of honours, including the Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres, Officier de l’Ordre National du Mérite, Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur, and was elected a fellow at the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Research Interests

I am interested in collective housing as the main ingredient of the city. I have explored this relationship historically in my book, Housing, substance of our cities, a European Chronicle 1900-2007.
I am equally interested in other questions concerning the city, its architecture, landscape, geography, public spaces, its economy and governance. Most recently, I have been working on what I call ‘Integrative Architecture’; an architecture that is simultaneously a piece of infrastructure, a landscape, a building, and public space – in short, a piece of the city that acts as a negotiating element amongst all the spaces around it, in it, over it, and under it. I am also working on my book with the provisional title IT IS ALL ABOUT IMAGINATION: architectural education, is not a vocation but neither is the practice of architecture!!!