Armen Haghnazarian belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Armen Haghnazarian as Iranian-Armenian architect.
Armen Haghnazarian was born at Tehran in 1941. His recorded nationality is Germany.
Post-war architecture built at state scale: housing, new towns and civic megastructures, with results that are still being judged.
He is recorded as art historian and architect.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
That the work was built in Germany shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Armen Haghnazarian died in 2009, aged 68. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
