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KOUROSH RAFIEY ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO IS A FULL ARCHITECTURAL AND ENGINEERING SERVICES FIRM PRACTICING ON THE STUDY TO PRODUCING WORK OF LASTING VALUE. KOUROSH RAFIEY FOUNDED KRDS IN 2006 MOTIVATED TO DESIGN QUALITY. BEFORE THAT HE WAS DESIGN DIRECTOR OF ASAR CONSULTANT ENGINEERS' CO. SINCE 1997 AND PRACTICE AS AN INDEPENDENT DESIGNER. HE HAD MANY WORKS CONSTRUCTED & CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION; SOME OF WHICH AWARDED NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION. EXAMPLES OF HIS WORKS ARE PUBLISHED EITHER ONLINE OR IN INTERNATIONAL FETURES SUCH AS AD. THE SCOPE OF WORK CONCERNS THE ADJUSTMENT OF ALL STAGES OF DESIGN AND TECHNICAL EXPERTISE TO OVERSEE CONSTRUCTION. KRDS BELIEVES IN A DESIGN PHILOSOPHY BASED ON CREATIVITY, INNOVATION, AND SUSTAINABILITY.

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Kourosh Rafiey graduated with a Master’s degree in Architecture in 1994
from Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran. His professional experience
began with his collaboration with Asar Consultant Engineers as a lead designer
from 1994 to 2012. He continued his career as a lead architect at Core
Architects and HOK Architects in Toronto, Canada, from 2012 to 2013.

He founded his own design studio in 2006 and has since designed and completed
numerous projects at different scales, many of which have received national
and international awards. He was a nominee for the WAF (World Architecture
Festival) Award in Barcelona in 2009 for the Amaj Darman project, received
first place in the Architizer Award 2015, the Middle East Award for Sohanak
Swimming Pool, and several prizes in the Memar Grand Award in Iran and the
Iranian Interior Design Competition for his projects.

Rafiey’s academic role has included lecturing in Faculties of Architecture and
supervising architectural theses in Tehran for many years. Since 2007, he has
served as a jury member in national and international competitions and
architectural committees, and writes for Memari va Sakhteman architectural
magazine as an editor. His articles and projects have been featured in
specialized publications such as AD Architectural Design, Memar, 2A,
Sharestan, and others. Rafiey has actively participated in various meetings
and conferences as a lecturer and has organized several congresses and
professional events.

Awards

  • Architizer Award, 2023 | Winner | New York, USA

  • Architizer Award, 2016 | Winner | New York, USA

  • WAF (World Architecture Festival), 2010 | Shortlisted | Barcelona, Spain

  • Asia Pool Vision, 2016 |Winner | Lyon, France

  • Asia Architecture Award (2AAA), 2017 | Shortlisted | Berlin, Germany

  • Asia Architecture Award (2AAA), 2016 | Finalist | Istanbul, Turkey

  • Asia Architecture Award (2AAA), 2016 | nominated 

  • Memar Award, 2013 | Honorable Mentioned | Tehran, Iran

  • MEMAR Award, 2010 | Honorable Mentioned | Tehran, Iran

  • Iranian Interior Design Award, 2013 | winner | Tehran, Iran

  • Iranian Interior Design Award, 2011 | Honorable Mentioned | Tehran, Iran

Publications

AD (Architectural Design)
• Special Issue: “Iran: Past, Present and Future” | 2012, Vol. 82, No. 3, p 96–97
• Kourosh Rafiey Design Studio | Negar Hakim, Vienna, 2018, p 204–227

2A (Architecture and Art)
• Khazar Beach House | No. 18, p 126–129
• Iranian Residential Town (Chitgar Project) | No. 14, p 96–102
• New Architectural Movement | No. 13, p 170–173
• Amaj Darman Technology Park | Darab Diba, Tehran, 2017, p 240–243
• Sohanak Swimming Pool | Venice, Italy, 2015

Iran Contemporary Architecture
• Vol. 1: Residential Projects | Sohanak Villa | Tehran, 2017, p 348–359
• Vol. 2: Public Projects | Sohanak Villa | Tehran, 2017, p 182–189

Memar
• Two Projects | 2012, No. 74, p 96
• Software in the Process of Design in Architectural Firms | 2012, No. 75, p 30

Memari Va Sakhteman
• Architecture: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Interview with Nasrin Seraji | 2016, No. 47, p 76
• Helsinki Guggenheim Museum Competition Design: The Aquarium | 2016, No. 46, p 12
• Design Strategy and its Connection with Society Structure, Interview with Bahram Shirdel | 2016, No. 46, p 70
• Sohanak Pool | 2014, No. 41, p 146
• The Experience of Space in Ahmed-Abad | 2011, No. 29, p 72
• Architectural Space in World Contemporary Artist | 2002, No. 8, p 97
• Towards the Eternity of Death | 2002, No. 7, p 102
• A Restaurant in Yazd | 2011, No. 79, p 56
• Design: Between Challenge and Innovation, A Discussion with Four Architects | 2001, No. 72, p 7

Sharestan
• Special Issue: “Design Study” | The Idea: Fourth Session | 2011, No. 34, 35, p 22–28
• The Form, Interview with Nasrin Seraji | 2011, No. 32, 33, p 7–9
• Editorial: Architecture and Brand | 2010, No. 30, 31, p 3

Memari Va Shahrsazi
• Special Issue: “Iranian Contemporary Architecture Projects” | KRDS | 2012, No. 106–107, p 52–55

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