We are very pleased to announce that Sara Shafiei will be joining Professor Murray Fraser and Justin C. K. Lau to run Unit Zero in the next coming academic year 2014-2015

Sara Shafiei

Co founding Partner: saraben-academia, saraben-studio

Teaching Fellow Bartlett School of Architecture

Associate Lecturer Oxford Brookes University

www.saraben-academia.com

 Sara Shafiei graduated from the Bartlett school of Architecture (UCL) under the tuition of Dr Marcos Cruz and Dr. Marjan Colletti. She was the Bartlett recipient of the Sir Banister Fletcher Bronze Medal, 3D REID prize, Hamilton Associates prize, and  RIBA Silver Medal nominee. In 2008 she was awarded the KPF/ Architecture Foundation Public Space Travel Award, The International Bamboo runner-up prize, and the International TECU Architecture Award.
 

Her work has been exhibited internationally including exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Art Summer show 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012 where she was awarded the Royal Academy of Arts drawing prize, The Museum of Art and Design (MAD), New York, Mathaf Museum of Modern Art, and 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale.

 

Sara has also been published in Bartlett Design: Speculating with Architecture, Slash: Paper Under the Knife, AD-Protoarchitecture, Visionary Bamboo Designs for Ecological Living, Innovation in Bamboo, Wallpaper Magazine, The Financial Times, Icon Magazine, London Interiors Magazine, BD and The Architects Journal. She is one of the authors at Deletedscenes magazine and in 2009 co-authored Digital architecture: Passages Through Hinterlands- a book celebrating provocative projects from a young generation of digitally enabled designers.

 

Sara formed ‘saraben studio’ with Ben Cowd in 2007.  The design practice balances teaching with experimental architectural design research. The studio was awarded the Royal Academy of Art Grand Architecture Award in 2012, Sara has lectured extensively about her research and teaching methodology and in 2012 2012 was Keynote speaker at the international conference ‘Conversations on Architecture’ Cape Town, South Africa. In 2013 the studio exhibited and lectured at the Qatar Biannalle, and the Mathaf Museum of Modern Art, Doha. Sara has also been an invited lecturer at VCUQatar, and Cork University, Ireland.

 

Saraben-Academia was formed in 2009 to promote academic activities and share knowledge and ideas from across academic institutions. Saraben-academia students have received over 45 national and international awards since their launch in 2009, including the 2011 RIBA Silver Medal commendation, The RIBA Serjeant Award, MAKE Architects Award for Part I and Part II, Alderman Windley Scholarship, Ibstock Award, RIBA LRSA Award, 2012 Creative Thinking Award, and the international TECU award.

 

Sara is an associate Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University and a teaching Fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. She has previously taught at The Ecole Speciale D’Architecture, Paris and Leicester School of Architecture. Sara is a visiting critic at The Architecture Association (AA), Westminster University, London South Bank University, Cardiff University and has run workshops at the AA, Oxford Brookes, Leicester School of Architecture and Brighton University.

 

For more info please visit: www.saraben-academia.com