Shadi Rahbaran
Shadi Rahbaran is a practicing architect and is involved in teaching and urban research at ETH Studio Basel with Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron since 2007. After having finished her architecture studies at the University of Toronto, she worked at various offices such as Bruce Mau Design in Toronto and OMA/Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam, Berlin and Porto. She established her own architecture studio in Düsseldorf, Germany where she is licensed and has co-founded Rahbaran Hürzeler Architects in 2010 in Basel. She is involved in ongoing and completed projects in Germany and Switzerland and is currently participating in the Ordos100 project in Inner Mongolia, China. She taught at Cornell University in Fall 2006 and has been a guest critic at various schools, such as UdK Berlin, the University of Toronto, the University of Limerick and Cornell University.
Shadi Rahbaran was born in Teheran, Iran and has lived in Germany, USA and Canada prior to moving to Basel in 2007.