Kamran Diba


Kamran Diba is an Iranian architect and museum director. Before the Iranian revolution Diba worked entirely in the public sector in Iran. He currently resides in Paris, France.
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Biography

Kamran Diba was born on 5 March 1937 in Tehran. He is a cousin of Farah Pahlavi, the former empress of Iran. He studied architecture at Howard University, and graduated in 1964. He did a post-graduation year studying Sociology.
In 1966, he moved back to Tehran and joined DAZ Consulting Architects, Planners and Engineers. He is known for designing the new campus of Jondishapur University in Ahvaz, the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Niavaran Cultural Center in Tehran. In 1986, Diba received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for Shustar New Town in Khuzestan.
In 1967, Diba, Parviz Tanavoli, and Roxana Saba founded the Rasht 29 Club on a northern street near the Amirkabir University of Technology. Rasht 29 Club was named after the street address, and it was a popular hangout amongst artists of the time.
Diba served as the first Director of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art from 1976 until 1978.
In spring 1977, he was a visiting critic at Cornell University. inter alia on behalf of Oswald Mathias Ungers. That same year, 1977, Diba left Iran and moved to Paris, as well as spending time in Washington, D.C.
Kamran Diba was also an artist and had a handful of painting exhibitions in Iran.