Hooshang Seyhoun belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Hooshang Seyhoun as Iranian architect, artist and academic (1920-2014).
Hooshang Seyhoun was born at Tehran in 1920. His recorded nationality is Iran. He trained at University of Tehran.
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, sculptor and painter.
Among his best-known works are Avicenna Mausoleum, Asia Cinema (Tehran) and Nader Shah Mausoleum. Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
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.
Hooshang Seyhoun died in 2014, aged 94. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Avicenna Mausoleum
- Notable work: Asia Cinema (Tehran)
- Notable work: Nader Shah Mausoleum
- Notable work: Tomb of Kamal-ol-molk
- Trained at University of Tehran
