Dr. Maryam Mahvash is an architectural and urban designer and a researcher with demonstrated experience in both practice and academia. In her interdisciplinary approach towards design, she believes in art as an essential vehicle for creative design and innovative production, either subjective or objective.
Maryam has taught at several universities and served as a scientific advisor for several conferences, festivals, and periodicals. She has published several papers in academic and professional journals and spoken and presented her works in conferences and universities, including UBC, SFU, and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) Annual Conference.
Maryam’s interests span the broader context of design as well as the history and theory of architecture and urbanism. Her focus is on spatial perception, aesthetic and contextual design values, sense of place, place-making, and visual communication while her specialty is the study of the qualitative dimensions of light in architecture. She is the author of an award-winning academic book on the study of light in architecture, a conversion of her Ph.D. thesis published in Iran (CRB, 2014). “From Monochrome to Polychrome in Historical Persian Architecture” is her recent work in the scholarly book entitled Colour and Light in Ancient and Medieval Art (Routledge, 2017).
She holds a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Tehran, two Master's degrees in Urban Design from the University of British Columbia (UBC) and the University of Tehran, and an M.Arch. and a B.Arch. from Tehran Azad University (IAU).
