Zahra Safaverdi
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Zahra Safaverdi
Zahra creates, curates, educates, and writes about architecture. Her disciplinary work explores methods of using architecture as a proxy for collective cultural memory, to bring different historical and geographical points to closer proximity, and to materialize human forces often invisible. Zahra is an assistant professor of architecture at Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at WashU where she works on constructing integration between design studio pedagogy, materiality, and methodical representation in relation to the practice of architecture. She is also the current director of MASKS: an initiative that constructs a framework for young practitioners, theorists, and historians in design to foster pedagogical experimentation. MASKS offers a zone in which the thoughtful and critical explication of an idea may be expressed in its appropriate medium and where the design pedagogy is not held to an institutionally prescribed agenda. In addition to scholarly pursuits, Zahra has been involved with the practice of architecture for over a decade, working with a wide range of clients from the intimate scale of single-family housing, small adaptive reuse projects, and fit-outs for non-profit organizations to the broader scale of institutional buildings and Google’s campus in Cambridge.
In addition to being a featured artist with Glass Breakfast you can find Zahra's work at zsafaverdi.com.
