Alireza Sagharchi

Alireza Sagharchi RIBA FRSA (born 1959) is a United Kingdom-Iranian architect.[1] He received his Diploma in Architecture from the University of Westminster, London in 1986. Before setting up his own practice, Sagharchi was for 15 years the Senior Associate at Porphyrios Associates, a firm whose work follows the principles of traditional architecture and urbanism.

He has been responsible for a number of high-profile projects. These include master-planning in the commercial, resort/leisure and private residential sectors in the United Kingdom, Europe, North America and the Middle East. Notable among these projects are master plans for residential resorts in Croatia and Romania, Embassies in Mayfair and Belgravia, London, a Palace complex in Madrid and masterplanning of equestrian facilities in Spain and major residences in the middle-east.

He was formerly the senior associate in charge at the firm of Porphyrios Associates for projects including the New Quadrangle and Theatre for Magdalen College in Oxford, the Kings Cross regeneration preliminary master plan in London, Princeton University Whitman College master plan, office buildings in Athens, Reading and Birmingham, England and luxury hotels in Germany, Greece and Egypt. His Danube Delta Resort project was distinguished and selected for exhibition by the judges at the Philippe Rotthier European Prize for Architecture.

Alireza has taught at the Prince of Wales' Institute of Architecture, and held masterclasses at The Prince's Foundation and lectured and been visiting critic at the University of Notre Dame's Rome Programme. He is a founder member and the current Chairman of the Traditional Architecture Group at the R.I.B.A. He is a member of The Prince's Foundation, a trustee of the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism (INTBAU), whose patron is the Prince of Wales, and sits on the Casework Panel of the Georgian Group. He is a Built Environment Expert (BEE) at the Design Council and the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, and is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Alireza has written a number of books and publications, most recently New Palladians, Modernity and Sustainability for the 21st Century, Co-Author with Lucien Steil. Alireza's latest book explores the global resurgence of Traditional Architecture published by Rizzoli titled Contemporary Classical Architects Timeless Architecture for the Twenty-First Century, has a foreword by the Prince of Wales and a preface by Leon Krier.