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Dr Ahmadreza Hakiminejad

Lecturer

Ahmadreza is an architect, urbanist, researcher, and Lecturer in Architecture based in the Leeds School of Architecture at Leeds Beckett University. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. He has studied architecture, spatial planning and urban design in Iran and the UK and has previously worked in architecture and design practices in the Middle East.

Prior to joining the Leeds Beckett in 2023, he has taught at Coventry University, University of West London, and University of Westminster. Ahmadreza is a member of Editorial Team of the Journal of Engineering Future Sustainability, a member of ArtSpaceCity Research Group in the Centre for Postdigital Cultures at Coventry University, and a member of the jury at Tamayouz Excellence Award - an international award for architecture. He also acts as a peer reviewer for the Journal of Planning Education and Research, and the Journal of Architectural Education.

Research Interests

Ahmadreza's research interests revolve around critical urban theory, sociopolitics of placemaking, architecture and cities, architectural history and theory, and urban sociology. Through his investigations, he seeks to understand the intricate relationships between social, cultural, political, and economic forces that shape contemporary cities, particularly in the Global South. By employing critical frameworks, he tends to explore how these forces interact with and influence urban development, governance, and the lived experiences of individuals and communities within urban environments. He is particularly interested in critically examining cities governed by the ideological and authoritarian powers from a socio-political and historical perspective.

Ahmadreza has contributed to the British, Iranian and American journals, papers and magazines as writer, editor, expert commentator, translator and photographer. He has published essays and articles, and presented works internationally in conferences and seminars in Iran, Europe and the United States, and his expert opinions have been featured in the international papers and magazines including The Guardian and The Architectural Review. He is currently co-editing a book for Routledge, entitled 'City, Public Space and Body: The Embodied Experience of Urban Life'.

Leeds School of Arts

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Cities
Theory
Architecture
History
Politics
Urban

Selected Outputs

Hakiminejad A; Alami Fariman M (2023) City as Stage: Performative Body and the Authoritarian City. In: Authoritarian Urbanism: Global Manifestations, Knowledge Exchange and Contestation, 9 November 2023 - 11 November 2023, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

https://www.uni-weimar.de/fileadmin/user/fak/architektur/professuren_institute/IfEU/Bilder/Jahrestagungen/Jahrestagung_2023/AU__Abstract_Booklet.pdf
Hakiminejad A (2022) In Search of A Ruined City; Revisiting Tehran’s Red-Light District. In: 13th Biennial Iranian Studies Conference, 30 August 2022 - 2 September 2022, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.

https://associationforiranianstudies.org/content/search-ruined-city-revisiting-tehran%E2%80%99s-red-light-district
Hakiminejad A (2022) Cultural Mega-Event, City Centre South and the Destruction of Coventry. In: SPACEX Training Event: Arts and the Urban Commons: New Visions for the Phoenix City, LTB Showrooms, Coventry, UK.
Hakiminejad A (2021) The House of Tyranny; Thoughts on Iran’s Pyramid of Power. In: Parliament Buildings Conference, 18 February 2021 - 19 February 2021, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.
Hakiminejad A (2019) The Wrong City in the Making; the Case of Tehran’s District 22. In: Fourth Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies, 12 April 2019 - 14 April 2019, University of St Andrews, Scotland.
Hakiminejad A (2016) Women vs Cities: The Masculinity of Urban Space in Traditional and Modern Iran. In: Eleventh Biennial Iranian Studies Conference, 2 August 2016 - 5 August 2016, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

https://associationforiranianstudies.org/content/women-versus-cities-masculinity-urban-space-traditional-and-modern-iran
Hakiminejad A; Fu C; Mohammadzadeh Titkanlou H (2016) The Interrelationship of Social Sustainability and Urban Form; the Case of Modern and Traditional Iranian Cities. In: 18th International Conference on Sustainable Urban Environment, 21 January 2016 - 22 January 2016, Paris, France.

https://publications.waset.org/abstracts/37029/pdf
Hakiminejad A; Mohammadzadeh Titkanlou H (2015) Urban Sustainability Assessment Indicators: A Review. Andisheh New Town Development Company, Tehran, Iran.
Hakiminejad A (2015) A Mysterious Approach: The Elements of Environmental Sustainability in Traditional Iranian Architecture and Urban Design. In: UWL Doctoral Conference, 19 May 2015, University of West London.
Hakiminejad A; Curtis J; Borbor D; Hosseini V (2014) Urban Air and Pollution (Panel Discussion). In: Iran’s Natural Heritage: A Catalyst for Measurable Change, Asia House, London.

Hakiminejad A (In press) ‘The Right to the City’ and the Problem of Tehran.

Hakiminejad A; Fu C; Mohammadzadeh Titkanlou H (2015) A critical review of sustainable built environment development in Iran. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Engineering Sustainability, 168 (3), pp. 105-119.

https://doi.org/10.1680/ensu.14.00017

Hakiminejad A (2021) The Oil and the Brick; Tales of a Scotsman in Persia. Round City Magazine.
Hakiminejad A (2020) ‘Errors of Scale’: The Story of Tehran’s Abbasabad Lands. Konesh Space.
Bucknell A (2017) Posht-e Neqab-e Tehran (Persian for ‘Behind the Veil’). Translated by Hakiminejad, A. British Council. Underline Magazine.
Hakiminejad A (2017) Tehran’s ‘Stone Palace’: A House for a City (in Persian), Anthropology and Culture, Tehran, Iran.
Hakiminejad A (2016) People; the Missing Link of Iranian Cities (in Persian). Shargh Daily. Tehran, Iran.
Hakiminejad A (2016) A Land for the Square, A Space for the City(zen): the Potentiality of a Vacant Land in Transformation of a Significant Urban Node (in Persian). Shargh Daily. Tehran, Iran.
Hakiminejad A (2016) The Historic Landmark in the City: Case of Moshir al-Mulk Caravanserai in Borazjan (in Persian), Anthropology and Culture, Tehran, Iran.
Hakiminejad A (2016) Why ‘Charkhab’ Is Important? A Note on the Historic Palace of Charkhab in South Iran (in Persian), Bamdad-e Jonoub Daily, Iran.
Hakiminejad A (2016) From Sheikh’s Dome to Sayyid’s Minaret (in Persian), Anthropology and Culture, Tehran, Iran.
Hakiminejad A (2012) Borazjan: An Isolated City (in Persian). Ettehda-e Jonoub Weekly. Bushehr, Iran.

eds. Alami Fariman M; Lee C; Hakiminejad A; Mehan A (2026) City, Public Space and Body; The Embodied Experience of Urban Life. Routledge. (In preparation).
eds. Hakiminejad A (2013) Shahrhaye Paydar Baraye Sayyare e Koochak (Persian edition of 'Cities for a Small Planet' by Richard Rogers). Translated by Khosrow Afzalian. Mashhad, Iran: Kasra Publishing.

Jordan M; Alami Fariman M; Hakiminejad A; Treloar M; Rizzioli G; Parry A (2023) Co-making Futures: How Do Universities, Publics and Cultural Organisations Create Equitable Cities? (Acted as Organising Committee in collaboration with ArtSpaceCity Research Group, Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University). Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry, UK. 03 July 2023. Available at: https://postdigitalcultures.org/co-making-futures/.
Alami Fariman M; Hakiminejad A (2023) Woman, Life, Freedom: The Sounds of a Revolution. (Action research project co-ordinated with Mahsa Alami Fariman and funded by Sustainable Cities GRP Small Grants, University of Warwick. In collaboration with Centre for Feminist Research (Goldsmiths, University of London), Centre for the Study of Women and Gender (University of Warwick), and Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (University of Warwick). Coventry Cathedral, UK, 20 May 2023.
Jordan M; Parry A; Treloar M; Rizzioli G; Alami Fariman M; Hakiminejad A; Ingram C (2023) Politics & Pakora: Imagining Futures for Coventry’s Cultural Infrastructures. (Acted as Organising Committee in collaboration with ArtSpaceCity Research Group, Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University). The Pod Café, Coventry, UK. 10 May 2023.
Alami Fariman M; Lee C; Hakiminejad A (2021) ‘City, Public Space & Body’ International Conference (Acted as Organising Committee), Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship, Goldsmiths University of London, 14-15 December 2021. Available at: www.citypublicspacebody.com/.
Hakiminejad A (2019) 'Like LA with minarets': how concrete and cars came to rule Tehran. Interview by Oliver Wainwright, The Guardian, 9 January 2019. Available at: www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jan/09/like-la-with-minarets-how-concrete-and-cars-came-to-rule-tehran.
Hakiminejad A (2017) Behind the Veil. Interview by Alice Bucknell, The Architectural Review (Façade Issue), September 2017, p. 68-72. Available at: https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/behind-the-veil.