In the history of building, Bagher Ayatollahzadeh Shirazi is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Bagher Ayatollahzadeh Shirazi as Iranian architect and faculty (1936–2007).
Bagher Ayatollahzadeh Shirazi was born at Najaf in 1936. His recorded nationality is Iran.
Post-war architecture built at state scale: housing, new towns and civic megastructures, with results that are still being judged.
He is recorded as architect and academic staff.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
That the work was built in Iran shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Bagher Ayatollahzadeh Shirazi died in 2007, aged 71. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
