Farzad Akhavan was born in Iran. He studied architecture in Tehran and then completed postgraduate studies in Advanced Architectural Design at the Staedelschule Franfurt am Main. In addition to his work as an architect and architecture lecturer, he has collaborated on a number of international and interdisciplinary projects, including various landscape and urban installations and stage sets. The interdisciplinary aspect of his work has included work with Tomas Saraceno Studio for the Could City installation at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (2012) and the stage design for the Nouruz project at the Maxim Gorki Theater in 2015. Farzad Akhavan lives and works in Berlin.