Iranian Architect Nominated for England’s Dorfman Award

Architect and painter Alireza Taghaboni is among five nominees for the first edition of the annual architecture ‘RA Dorfman Award’ in summer, organized by the Royal Academy of Arts, the oldest art institution in England.
For the award, Taghaboni, founder of Next Office Studio of Architecture in Tehran, competes with Anne Holtrop, founder of Studio Anne Holtrop with two offices in the Netherlands and Bahrain, Rahel Shawl, founder of RAAS Architects based in Ethiopia, Go Hasegawa, founder of Go Hasegawa and Associates in Japan, and Arquitectura Expandida, a design cooperative enterprise based in Bogota, Colombia.