Alireza Sagharchi RIBA, FRSA. is the Principal of
Stanhope Gate Architecture and Urban Design,. He received his
Diploma in Architecture from the University of Westminster [PCL],
London, and has been a corporate member of the Royal Institute
of British Architects and a Chartered Architect since 1986.
Before setting up Stanhope Gate in 2002, he was The Senior Associate
with the firm of Porphyrios Associates, whose work follows the
principles of traditional architecture and urbanism . He has been
responsible for a number of high-profile projects, including master-planning,
in the commercial, resort/leisure and private residential sectors,
in the UK, Europe, North America and the Middle East. Notable
among these projects the Danube Delta Resort ; Embassies in Mayfair
and Belgravia, London; the New Quadrangle and Theatre for Magdalen
College, Oxford; the Kings Cross regeneration preliminary master
plan, London; Princeton university Whitman College master plan,
major office buildings in Brindleyplace, Birmingham, and Reading,
England and five-star hotels, in Germany, Greece and Egypt.
He has taught at the Prince of Wales' Institute of Architecture
and Greenwich University. He has been a visiting critic at Yale,
the Notre Dame summer school and at the Welsh schools of Architecture.
A founder member of the Traditional Architects Group (TAG)
at the R.I.B.A., he serves on its executive committee. He is a
member of ICTP, the International College of Traditional Practitioners
of (INTBAU)
the International Network for Traditional Building Architecture
and Urbanism. He sits on the Casework Panel of the Georgian Group
and is also a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts.
Published Work
Periodicals and Press Articles
Conde nast Traveller, Danube Delta, August 2005
The Independent, Danube Delta, June 2005
The Mail on Sunday, Danube Delta, July 2005
Architecture Today, Danube Delta, March 2004
The Times, House in Knightsbridge 12, December 2003
The Times, House in Knightsbridge 8th, March 2003
Building, Kings Cross Master plan, December 2001
Building, Rochester Master plan, March 2000
Architecture Today, Brindleyplace, January 1999
Architecture Today, Magdalen, February 1997
Architecture Today, Brindleyplace, September 1996
Architectural Design, Paternoster Sq, June 1992
Architects Journal, Magdalen, November 1991
Arquitectonica, House in Kensington, June 1990
Architectural Design, Vol. 57, March 1987
Architectural Design, Vol. 56, September 1986
Architectural Design, Vol. 56, August 1986
Books
Real Architecture
Architecture in Arcadia, Academy
Interventions in Historic Centres, Academy
Demetri Porphyrios Buildings & Writings Academy
Porphyrios Associates, Monograph Papadakis
Building Classical, A Vision of Europe and America Academy
Exhibitions
Real Architecture, The Building Centre, London
Traditional Architecture Group, Prince of Wales’ Foundation,
London
European Prize for Architecture, Foundation Pour L’ Architecture
Brussels
