Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Washington State University
School of Design & Construction
2340 NW RIDGELINE DR
Pullman
WA
99163
United States
ABOUT
Vahid Vahdat is an architect, interior designer, and historian of architecture and urban form. His primary field of research is the theory and history of modern architecture and urban space, with an emphasis on non-Western modernities. He is the author of “Occidentalist Perceptions of European Architecture in Nineteenth Century Persian Travel Diaries—Travels in Farangi Space.” Dr. Vahdat has held academic positions in the US and abroad, including at the University of Houston and Texas A&M University. He joined the SDC faculty at Washington State University in 2019.
Discipline
Architecture & Urban Planning
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
History Of Architecture
Iranian Studies
Modernization
Persian
Urban Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iran
Islamic World
Specialties
Occidentalism
The Perception Of Modernity
Languages
Persian (native)
Arabic (intermediate)
French (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 2014
| Architecture
| Texas A&M University
MSci
| 2007
| Urban Planning
| University of Tehran
BA
| 2004
| Architecture
| Yazd University
Abstracts
An Erotics of Exchange: Civic Sites for (Gendered) Public Mourning in Yazd, Iran
Architectural Filth and the Heroic Passivism of Farhadi's Salesman
Carnival Nonmovements and the Repoliticization of Urban Space in Yazd, Iran
