Dariush Borbor

and Queen Farah visit the High Urban Planning Council; present are Hoveyda (Prime Minister), Badi (HUPC Director), Ziya'i (Senator), Iranpour, Borbor (Urban Planning Consultant) Dariush Borbor was born in April 1934. His father was Gholam Hossein khan Borbor (), one of the directors of the Iranian branch of the former Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), congressman, ambassador-at-large, and one of the founding members of the Grand Lodge of Iran. Borbor had his primary schooling in Iran. At the age of thirteen, he moved to the United Kingdom for his secondary education, after which he obtained his General Certificate of Education from University of Cambridge (1952), a Bachelor of Architecture (1958) and a Master of Civic Design (1959) both from the University of Liverpool. He then went to specialize in the architecture of hot dry regions at the University of Geneva (1961) under the direction of the French architect and urban planner Eugène Beaudouin. ==Career==

While working for his PhD, he collaborated concurrently with the Swiss urban planner Professor Arnold Hoechel and the architects Frei Hunziker, Architectes Associés on several projects, including the first automatic bowling alleys in Meyrin Commune, Geneva, and Beirut, Lebanon. As President and managing director, he developed and expanded the business to a large multidisciplinary organization with several in-house departments which included: architecture, urban planning, environment, structure, mechanics, electricity and interior design. A few months prior to the 1978 Iranian Islamic Revolution, Borbor moved to Paris, France where he founded the Borbor International Management Consultants (BIMC) to Architects, Engineers, Planners. BIMC offered consultancy services in design, management and documentation to architectural and planning firms. In 1984, he moved to Los Angeles where he was involved in some architectural consultancy and research on Iranian and Persianate subjects. He is a Consultant and active contributor to the Encyclopædia Iranica. ==Prizes and awards==

• 1958, Working Drawing Award, ''Architects' Journal'', London, UK • 1959, First Prize, ideas competition for a Liverpool neighbourhood, Department of Civic Design, University of Liverpool, UK • 1965, First Prize, design of Persian Pavilion, Los Angeles • 1975, Gold Mercury International Award for project management, Rome, Italy • 1976, NIOC Award, seaside resort, Mahmoudabad, Caspian coast, Iran • 1976, First Prize, 2200-unit shopping mall (Bazaar Reza, ) in Mashhad, Iran • 1976, First Prize, monument, Mashhad, Iran. • 1977, First Prize, Temple of the Grand Lodge of Iran, Tehran, Iran. • 1988, 50 Outstanding Architects of the World, the Second Belgrade Triennial of World Architecture • 2020, Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres) • 2022, Dariush Borbor ranked as one of the most influential academic alumni of the University of Liverpool. • 2023, University of Liverpool 2023 Alumni Award. == Selected projects and writings ==

Architecture • 1967, The Ice Palace recreation centre, Pahlavi Avenue, Tehran • 1971, Monument Mashhad (demolished in 2010) • 1976, Museum and library, Mashhad, Iran Regional planning • 1963–1966, Nowshahr-Chalus Regional Plan • 1964–1965, Caspian Coast Regional Plan • 1968, Kakhk post-earthquake reconstruction • 1976, Bazaar Reza shopping mall, Mashhad Bibliography • Dariush Borbor, Majlis: Teheran, Iran, University of Liverpool, Google Books, Liverpool, 1958. • "The Influence of Persian Gardens on Islamic Decoration", Architecture Formes Fonctions, vol. 14, ed. Anthony Krafft, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1968, pp. 84–91. • D.Bourbour [Borbor], Projet de Rénovation de Haram Hazrat-e-Reza à Meched, A.A. Honar va Me'mari, Tehran, 1972. • "Iran", The Encyclopedia of Urban Planning, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1974, pp. 553–567. • Dariush Borbor, Dariush Borbor Compendium of Articles, Presentations and Interviews 1954-2018, Sahab Geographic & Drafting Institute, Tehran, 2018. • Dariush Borbor, Analytical Comparative Etymological Dictionary of Reduplication in the Major Languages of the Middle East and Iran, Oxford, 2023. ==Gallery==

File:Dariush Borbor, Flowers, Aquarel, 1953.jpg|1953, "Flowers", Aquarelle (30 x 22 cm.) by Dariush Borbor File:Dariush Borbor, Lovers, Black and White in Unity, Oil on Canvas, 1957.jpg|1957, "Lovers, Black and White in Unity" oil on canvas (60 cm. x 46 cm.) by Dariush Borbor, presented to Nelson Mandela in 2007 by the artist on the 50th anniversary of the painting File:Dariush Borbor (Architect and Urban Planner) Chair, Tehran, Iran, 1961.jpg|Chair, Tehran, Iran, 1961 File:Dariush Borbor (Architect and Urban Planner), House Extension, Mousavizadeh, South View, Tehran, 1974.jpg|House Extension, Mousavizadeh, South View, Tehran, 1974 File:Dariush Borbor (Architect and Urban Planner), House Nahavandi, North View, Tehran, 1965.jpg|House Nahavandi, North View, Tehran, 1965 File:Dariush Borbor (Architect and Urban Planner), Landscape, Park Ahwaz, 1966.jpg|Landscape, Park Ahwaz, 1966 File:Dariush Borbor (Architect and Urban Planner) Monument, Abadan, Iran 1971 (3).jpg|Monument, Abadan, Iran 1971 ==See also==