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ID: 500096892
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500096892

 

Record Type: Person
Diba, Kamran (Iranian architect, urban planner, and painter, born 1937)

Note: Diba studied architecture and sociology at Howard University, Washington, DC. In 1966, he returned to Tehran, where he became President and Senior Designer of DAZ Consulting Architects, Planners and Engineers, and served as urban planning consultant to Iran's Ministry of Housing and Urban Development. His works 4 in Iran include the partially completed Shushtar New Town (1974-1980) in Khuzestan, several buildings at Jondi Shapour University (1968-1976) at Ahvaz, and a number of small mosques. The Museum of Contemporary Art (1976) in Tehran is probably his best-known work; he was also the museum's founder and first Director (1976-1978). In 1977, Diba left Iran and served as Visiting Critic at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Subsequently, he has lived in Paris and Washington, DC, working in private practice.

Names:
Diba, Kamran (preferred,V,index)
Kamran Diba (V,display)
Diba, Kamran Tabatabai (V)
Diba, Kamram (V)
Diba, Kamram Tabatabai (V)

Nationalities:
Iranian (preferred)
Persian

Roles:
artist (preferred)
architect
urban planner
painter
museum director
collector
dealer

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Tehrān (Tehrān, Iran) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   from ca. 1967
active:   ca. 1967-ca. 1980  Iran (Asia) (nation)
active:   Europe (World) (continent)
active:   United States (North and Central America) (nation)

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Diba, Kamran (I)

Biographies:
(Iranian architect, urban planner, and painter, born 1937) ..... [VP Preferred]
(architect, contemporary) ..... [AVERY]
(Iranian architect) ..... [Grove Art]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Diba, Kamram ........ [VP]
..........................  ArchINFORM online (1999-) accessed 31 March 2004
Diba, Kamram Tabatabai ........ [VP]
.............................................  ArchINFORM online (1999-) accessed 31 March 2004
Diba, Kamran ........ [AVERY Preferred, Grove Art Preferred]
..........................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
..........................  Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (1963-)
..........................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
Diba, Kamran Tabatabai ........ [Grove Art, VP]
.............................................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
.............................................  Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) accessed 31 March 2004
Kamran Diba ........ [AVERY, VP]
........................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Subject: ........ [AVERY, Grove Art, VP]
....................  ArchINFORM online (1999-) accessed 31 March 2004
....................  ArchNet.org (2000-) accessed 31 March 2004
....................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
....................  Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (1963-)
....................  Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals [online] (1993-) accessed 31 March 2004
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) accessed 31 March 2004
....................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) accessed 31 March 2004
 
Note:
English .......... [AVERY, VP]
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