In The News Headlines

February 27, 2008
Letter from SIAP President: Letter from SIAP President 

February 21, 2008
SIAP Board of Directors: 2008 Election Results

February 1, 2007
SIAP Board of Directors: 2007 Election Results

January 26, 2006
SIAP Board of Directors: 2006 Election Results

Thursday, February 24, 2005     
Colorado Community Room, Santa Monica, CA

A presentation by: Dr. Ali Farhoodi

December 2, 2004
SIAP Board of Directors: 2005 Election Results

July 14, 2004
Beverly Hills Architecture
In response to the article of "The Big Box Battle of Beverly Hills” by Karen Alexander, Published on Sunday June 13, 2004 in The Los Angeles Times Magazine, SIAP president wrote a complaint letter to Los Angeles Times and... 
Full Article...

March 27, 2004
Zaha Hadid: Winner of Pritzker Architectural Award
Zaha Hadid, an Iraqi-born architect who struggled for years to get her audacious and unconventional designs built, won the prestigious 2004 Pritzker Architecture Prize on Sunday, the first woman to receive the profession's highest honor.    Full Article...

December 31, 2003
Bam: Killer Earthquake
Bam, an ancient city with more than 2000 years of history destroys in less than a minute.  On Friday December 26th, 2003, 5:28 am, a 6.3 Richter scale earthquake shook Bam and killed more than 30,000 people in sleep.  Full Article...

December 11, 2003
Design:
Sheer determination
By: Janet Eastman, 
From:
Los Angeles Times article, Dec 11, 2003
Architecture professor Dariouche Showghi was determined to build a smaller, more economic house for himself and his wife, and so the teacher became the student: He did his homework.  Full Article...

September 2003
Profile: Iranian Architects
By: Ashraf Hemati
H
adi Mirmiran and Homa Farjadi are two well-know Iranian architects who have done quite extensive works in architecture for the last 30 years. Hadi Mirmiran, M.A. in architecture, has 34 years of professional experience and is the Managing director and member of board of directors of NJP Consulting Engineers that was established in 1988 in Tehran, Iran.  Homa Farjadi is principal of Farjadi Architects in London and Professor in Practice of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, US. With projects in UK, the US and Asia the work of her office has won international competitions and received awards and has been published and exhibited internationally. For more information, please visit their websites.

May, 2003
Sustainability
USGBC(US Green Building Council)and LEED(tm) (Leadership in Environmental & Emerge Design) Rating System for Commercial Buildings

Presented by: Moteza Alvani, AIA 
SIAP public Event

January 2002
INTERNATIONAL  ARCHITECTURAL  FORUM
“Saint Petersburg - Window into the Future“
May11-May17 2002 /
Saint Petersburg

9/11/2001
S
ept. 11, 2001 was the saddest and the worst day in US & world history.  Thousands of innocent people were killed by an outrageous, pure madness of some terrorist attack to New York city and elsewhere. Three planes commandeered by unknown hijackers slammed into the Pentagon and New York's landmark World Trade Center on Tuesday, sending towering symbols of America's financial and military might crumbling into rubble and burying thousands of people alive.

Sequence of Hijacked Airliner Crash Into WTC
Sequence of Hijacked Airliner Crash Into WTC
(PARK FOREMAN / For The Times) (PARK FOREMAN / For The Times)  
(PARK FOREMAN / For The Times) (PARK FOREMAN / For The Times)

Resources:
www.sadnews.net

New
York's World Trade Center: A Living Archive

WTC restaurants and Banquet
World Trade Center Observation Deck 
Skyscrapers of New York City
Images of the World Trade Center
NYCfoto.com
Architecture: World Trade Center
Engineering: World Trade Center 

8/20/2001
International seminar:

"Modernity and its Impact on the Culture of Iranian Architecture and Urban Planning" 
November 3, 2001 / Tehran, Iran / Organized by ICDAC

April 2001
Tehran:
New tastes for high standard living
By: Jay Falamaki

1/21/2001
Living 'Out of Square'
LA Times article on Jay Falamaki

10/05/2000
Lecture by Hani Rashid at LACMA on Thursday Oct. 5 , 2000 at 700 PM.
By: Mark Vaghei AIA

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