Revisiting urbanisation in Teheran
We present the Solitude Exchange Network resident, architect Rojija Forouhar.
Rojia Forouhar is an artist architect, researcher based in Tehran. A graduate from the Architectural Association, she holds an AA Diploma and a Master’s in History, Theory, and Critical Thinking.
Forouhar’s interdisciplinary work spans architecture, film, art, and literature. Through space, text, film, and architectural drawings, she explores urban discourses and spatial narratives. Her projects include Invisible Tehran[s] (2016), exhibited at the CAA in Tehran, draws on Nasir’s travel book, Calvino’s writings, and Situationist practice in resisting the facile recording of space only by images. Public Storage (2017), installed in the Afif-Abad Gardens in Shiraz, examines architecture’s “finished” state and that which makes an unfinished building different from its ruins. Tehran Interior Sequences (2019), exhibited at Platform 28 in Tehran, uses Iranian cinema as an accidental architectural archive, exploring domestic spaces in Tehran. Lost Gardens (2019), exhibited at National Geography in Tehran, documents the disappearance of five green spaces in Tehran. The Building of a Story, The Story of a Building (2020) exhibited at Platform 28, Tehran explores how literature alters architecture into a literary substance.
Recently a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Forouhar’s ongoing project, "Living with Building", investigates the temporary living arrangements of construction workers in Tehran.
Rojia Forouhar continues with a second chapter of "Living with Building" in Zagreb, which will be exhibited at the end of January.
