Parsa Khalili
bio
Parsa Khalili (b. Tehran, Iran, 1984) is an architect-artist based in Vienna. Spanning buildings, installation, sculpture, digital rendering, and painting, Khalili’s work explores ideas of form and space at the intersections and limits of artistic research and architectural design. His hybrid approach pushes disciplinary boundaries to foster creative transferences between artistic and architectural modalities.
Alongside his art and architectural design practice, Khalili has held teaching positions at Princeton University, the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Yale University, and the Pratt Institute. His work has been honored and supported in the form of international grants and fellowships from institutions such as The Graham Foundation, The A+D Museum, The SOM Foundation, Yale University, and the University of Illinois, and has been recognized internationally through exhibitions, publications, and design projects in the United States, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Germany, Italy, Austria, and Iran
collaborators
Architecture + Design
Diller Scofidio + Renfro Eisenman Architects
Coop Himmelb(l)au Meier Partners
2x4 glForm
DACUNA Tzou Lubroth
Volley Studio Studio Zoka Zola
Engineers + Consultants
Altieri Buro Happold
Guy Nordenson Salvia McNamara
F+M Ingegneria IBZ Ingeneria
OneLux CZ Studio
Transsolar Rossi Bianchi
Inter-Science S+A Engineering
Langan Antonello & Associati
Reis Contracting Zanella & Bison
exhibitions / Lectures
Constructions
Solo Exhibition
Bildraum 07, Vienna
Systemic
‘Working Remotely’ Group Show
A83 Gallery, New York City
(w/Clemens Finkelstein)
 Space
‘The Future of _Space’ Group Show
A+D Museum, Los Angeles
(w/Clemens Finkelstein)
Tempietto’s Genetic Coda
‘Tempietto Exemplum’ Group Show
Yale School of Architecture Gallery, New Haven
(as FORMA Architects)
Speculative Urbanism Towards a Non-Western Urbanity
ARCHTHEO Theory & History of Architecture Conference
DAKAM, Istanbul
Campus Martius East
Invited History/Theory Seminar Series: ‘Polemical Urbanism’
University of Cambridge, Cambridge
Campus Martius East
UIUC Plym Traveling Fellow Lecture
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
publications
“Unbuilt Iran: Modernism’s Counterproposal”
Rethinking Global Modernism: Architectural Historiography and the Postcolonial
Book Chapter, Routledge
(w/Shima Mohajeri)
“Meditation to Mediation: Reclaiming Wachsmann’s Legacy”
Stressing Wachsmann: Structures for a Future
Book Chapter, Birkhauser
“Campus Martius East”
SAC Journal 5: Zero Piranesi
Project / Text, Städelschule/Spurbuchverlag
“Pop Goes the Weasel, or, a Very Late Post-Modernism”
PIDGIN 24
Journal Essay, Princeton University/Pidgin Press
“Architecture in the Margin”
PROJECT Journal 6
Journal Editor and Author, Consolidated Urbanism / MIT Press
(w/ John Capen Brough)
“Contextualizing Modernism in Iran: A Counter Proposal”
Sharestan No. 42
Journal Essay, Wabi.Sabi Press Tehran
“Architecture in the Margin”
Perspecta 43: Taboo
Journal Editor, MIT Press
(w/ Seher Erdogan Ford, John Capen Brough)
“Campus Martius East”
Log 31
Project / Text, Anyone Corporation / MIT Press
fellowships / Grants
“Unbuilt Iran: Modernism’s Counterproposals”
Research & Development Grant, Graham Foundation
(w/Shima Mohajeri)
“The End of Western Classicism, the End of the Near East: Structural Translations of Pranesi’s Anachronistic Project”
Francis J. Plym Traveling Fellowship, UIUC
“In Search of [an] Iranian Modernism”
SOM Prize, SOM Foundation
“Emergence of the ‘New South’: Contemporary Movements in South American Architecture”
William Wirt Winchester Fellowship, Yale University
“Aberrance + Autonomy: The Origins of a New Formal Language”
George Nelson Scholarship, YSoA
contact
studio parsa khalili
Neubaugasse 8/5 1070 Vienna