Nasrine Seraji

Nasrine Seraji-Bozorgzad AA dipl RIBA (born 1957) is an Iranian-British architect. She is a 2011 recipient of the Knight of the Legion of Honour.

Seraji was born in Tehran, Iran.

Seraji was among the founders of Atelier Seraji, Architects and Partners in Paris and is dean of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Paris-Malaquais. She graduated from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London in 1983. In 1989, she relocated to Paris and the following year launched her own agency, Atelier Seraji.

Seraji's international teaching roles between 1993 and 2001 include Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in New York, as the diploma unit master at the Architectural Association in London and as a visiting professor at Princeton University in New Jersey. Between 2001 and 2005, Seraji served as a professor and chair of the Department of Architecture at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. The following year, she was appointed dean of the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Malaquais and also began teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where she served as a multidisciplinary professor in the fields of ecology, sustainability and conservation. In 2014, she was appointed centennial visiting professor of design at Hong Kong University.

In 2006, Seraji was honored with the medal for Chevalier des Arts et des Letters from the Minister of Culture in France for her major contributions to art and humanities and as they relate to education in France. In 2008, she received both the Chevalier dans l'Ordre National du Mérite and the Médaille d'Argent by the French Academy of Architecture. In July 2011, she received the Chevalier de l'Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur.

• 2011: Knight of the Legion of Honour (14 July 2011)

Works

• 1991: the American Cultural Center, provisional, rue de Bercy, 12th arrondissement of Paris
• 1995: Master Plan for the site of the gendarmerie barracks Briey (Meurthe-et-Moselle)
• 1996: Cave Dragon, Chemin des Dames (Aisne)
• 1997: Renovation of a bar 50 homes in Sarcelles (Val-d'Oise)
• 2003: 164 student housing units in Paris and 50 in Vienna, Austria
• 2005: extension of the Lille School of Architecture
• 2005: Master Plan of 105 hectares for the Hippodrome site in Penang, Malaysia
• 2006: Master Plan for the city of Le Rheu
• 2007: 107 km2 Masterplan for the city of Chongli China
• 2011: Le Cabanon, student center in Rue de Sophia-Antipolis, 14200 Hérouville-Saint-Clair, France
• 2012: Tehran Stock Exchange Competition, 3rd / Nasrine Seraji + ASAA + Mehdi Bakhshizadeh + Tadbir Omran lranian

Publications

• Seraji-Bozorgzad, Nasrine. "Chapter 6: Diversion." Edited by Francesca Hughes. The Architect: Reconstructing Her Practice. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996. pp. 128-147. ISBN 978-0-262-08245-7 OCLC 34113316
• Seraji-Bozorgzad, Nasrine. "The Architecture Model." Edited by Michael Krapf. Triumph der Phantasie: Barocke Modellen von Hildebrandt bis Mollinarolo. 218. Wechselausstellung der Österreichischen Galerie Belvedere. Wien: Böhlau, 1998. ISBN 978-3-205-98958-5 OCLC 467648587
• Seraji, Nasrine. "Nexus-Atelier: Tools, Organization, Process." Edited by Cynthia C. Davidson. Anyhow. New York, NY: Anyone Corp.; Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0-262-54095-7 OCLC 39725982
• Seraji-Bozorgzad, Nasrine, and Françoise Fromonot. Nasrine Seraji: L'Architettura come Territorio = Architecture as Territory. About 6 series. Melfi (Potenza): Libria, 2002. ISBN 978-8-887-20225-0 OCLC 680181233
• Seraji, Nasrine. Logement, Matière De Nos Villes: Chronique Européenne, 1900-2007 = Housing, Substance of Our Cities: European Chronicle, 1900-2007. Paris: A. & J. Picard, 2007. Exhibition catalog of the Arsenal Pavilion, June 2007. ISBN 978-2-708-40795-4 OCLC 470530583

• "Projects: Temporary American Center". Contemporary Architecture of Iran (CAOI). 2 September 2014. Retrieved 14 November 2015. 
• "Le Cabanon / Atelier Seraji Architectes & Associés". ArchDaily. 20 February 2012. Retrieved 14 November 2015. 
• "Tehran Stock Exchange Competition, 3rd / Nasrine Seraji + ASAA + Mehdi Bakhshizadeh + Tadbir Omran lranian". ArchDaily. 17 August 2012. Retrieved 15 October 2015.