ABOUT

Born in Tehran, Amir Abbas Aboutalebi completed his M.S. in Architecture at Islamic Azad University, Tehran Branch, in 2002. After beginning his professional career at Bahram Shirdel & Associates in 2003, he gained international experience working in architectural offices across Dubai, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, and Kuwait. Following a formative meeting with Dr. Ken Yeang in 2008, he returned to Iran and founded AA Design Atelier, establishing a research-driven practice with an interdisciplinary approach that integrates cultural, perceptual, health-related, and ethical perspectives into context-sensitive, human-centered design. His work has been published in peer-reviewed professional and academic journals and exhibited in international forums.

Aboutalebi has consistently pushed the boundaries of architectural design through a series of research-based competition proposals and built prototypes, positioning his work at the intersection of design, theory, and experimentation.

In 2015, he founded International Villa Magazine, a global platform dedicated to contemporary architectural discourse. Through this initiative, he has collaborated with European embassies, architectural offices, organizations, and universities, fostering international dialogue on architecture. As editor-in-chief, he has led the publication of ten special monograph issues, each dedicated to a specific country, working with more than 400 architectural offices worldwide and conducting over 100 exclusive interviews with internationally recognized architects.

Expanding this vision, he is also the founder of the Villa Award, an international platform that recognizes and promotes excellence in villa architecture while contributing to critical discourse and global exchange. In parallel, since 2020, he has served as Dean of the Villa Academy, where he advances alternative and forward-thinking models of architectural education through research-based studios and independent academic programming.

Alongside his professional, editorial, and academic work, Aboutalebi maintains an ongoing engagement with the arts. His practice is informed by his involvement in music and painting; he has performed works by The Beatles as a pianist and vocalist and has authored an introductory guide to learning the tremolo harmonica.

 

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