Scientific Quarterly Journal
Dr. Seyed Amir Mansouri is an Associate Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Tehran. He holds two doctorates, one in Urban Studies with a focus on Landscape Architecture and another in Architectural History. His research and publications explore cultural and identity concerns in the Iranian landscape. Dr. Mansouri’s academic interests include landscape perception, urban landscape aesthetics, visual systems of urban spaces, and critical studies in landscape architecture. In addition to teaching, he contributes to scholarly publishing and has served as editor or translator for books on the theory and practice of landscape, and as editorial board for journals such as Bagh-e Nazar and Manzar.
Dr. Mehdi Basouli is an Associate Professor in the Department of Tourism Management at the University of Science and Culture, Tehran. He holds an M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Tehran and a Ph.D. in Tourism Management from the University of Science and Culture. Dr. Basouli has served in several key academic and executive positions, including President of the University of Science and Culture, Head of the Department of Tourism Management, and Deputy for Education at the Academic Center for Education, Culture, and Research (ACECR). His research interests cover a wide range of topics in tourism studies, including rural tourism, ecotourism, corporate social responsibility in the hospitality industry, destination marketing, and tourism managemaent.
Dr. Ali Yaran is a full professor of Islamic and Landscape Architecture, holding a PhD in Housing Architecture from the University of Glasgow (1997). Since 1987, he has held teaching and research positions at several universities, including the University of Gilan and Iran University of Science and Technology. His expertise encompasses Islamic architecture, Islamic art and philosophy, and landscape anthropology, and he has authored numerous publications in these fields. Dr. Yaran has also served on specialized committees of the Ministry of Science and the Council for the Advancement of Humanities.
Dr. Simon Aivazian is a professor in the Department of Architecture at the College of Fine Arts, University of Tehran, and a distinguished researcher in contemporary architecture and Iranian architecture. His research interests focus on the role of culture in Iranian architecture, Iranian contemporary architecture, Iranian architecture studies and Iranian traditional architecture. Dr. Aivazian has also contributed to the organization and executive committees of several national and international conferences on architecture and emerging technologies.
Dr. Azari is an Associate Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Tehran. Born on April 24, 1934, in Shahsavar (now Tonekabon), he earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of Tehran in 1969. From then until his retirement in 1999, he taught courses on Ancient Iran, the Mongol period, the Qajar era, and Medieval History at the universities of Tehran and Isfahan. Dr. Azari’s research focuses on historical geography, Iranian history and culture, and comparative studies. He has authored numerous publications in these fields, contributing significantly to the understanding of Iran’s historical and cultural landscape.
Mehdi Shibani is a Emeritus full professor of Landscape Architecture at Shahid Beheshti University and one of the pioneers in establishing and developing the field of landscape architecture in Iran. He has extensive academic and research experience, particularly in urban landscape studies, open space design, and landscape planning. His work emphasizes the integration of theoretical principles with practical design approaches, with recurring attention to social participation, environmental awareness, and place identity.
Dr. Mahmood Ziaee is a Professor of Tourism Management at Allameh Tabataba’i University, with expertise in urban geography and tourism planning. He has authored over forty scholarly publications addressing tourism policy, sustainable development, smart tourism, risk management in hospitality, protected area conflicts, and post-crisis tourism. His research adopts an interdisciplinary perspective, to examine the socio-cultural impacts of tourism, stakeholder engagement, environmental sustainability, and governance in tourism development and management in Iran.
Dr. Nematollah Fazeli is an anthropologist and full professor at the Institute for Social and Cultural Studies, affiliated with the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies in Iran. He received his PhD in Social Anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, in 2004. His interdisciplinary research mainly focuses on cultural and urban studies, the cultural history of contemporary Iran, social anthropology, cultural policy, media studies, sociology of art and literature, as well as ethnography with an emphasis on contemporary cultural experiences in Iran and Britain. He has published extensively, both original works and translations, addressing issues such as identity, higher education, cultural modernity, lifestyle, happiness, and the cultural dimensions of everyday life.
Dr. Mahdi Karoubi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Tourism Management at Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran. He earned his Ph.D. in Social Communication Sciences from the same university in 2016 and has since been actively engaged in teaching, research, and scholarly activities. Dr. Karoubi’s research primarily focuses on tourism management, destination branding, consumer behavior in tourism, sustainable development, and health tourism. He has contributed to numerous academic publications and serves on the editorial boards of reputable journals such as Tourism Management Studies. His work bridges theoretical insights and practical applications, emphasizing sustainable and strategic approaches to tourism development.
Dr. Bahram Ajorloo, Associate Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at the Department of Cultural Heritage Conservation, Islamic Art University of Tabriz, holds a PhD in Prehistoric Archaeology from the University of Tehran. He has extensive experience in archaeological research. Dr. Ajorloo serves on the editorial board of Journal of Research on Archaeometry, and is Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Art and Civilaziation of the Orient. His work engages with cultural heritage conservation, tourism culture, and the intersection of archaeological practice and public discourse.
Laura Verdelli is an architect (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), whit a post diploma in Landscape Architecture and a co-tutored PhD in Urban and Regional Planning at the François-Rabelais University of Tours (France) and in Cultural Heritage and Museology at the University of Coimbra (Portugal). She is an Associate professor at the Spatial Planning and Environment Department of the Engineering Polytechnic School of the University of Tours and a researcher at the laboratory UMR 7324 CITERES and at the EA 6294 LÉA of the University of Tours. Laura Verdelli focuses her researches: - on the processes of identification, protection and valorisation of cultural landscapes in the Mediterranean; - on the contemporary dynamics engendered by the above mentioned processes (particularly in UNESCO’s labelled sites); - on the interactions between heritigization and (strategic) spatial planning.
Mohammad Gharipour is Professor and Director of the Architecture Program at the University of Maryland, USA. Her main expertise is in the field of Iranian studies, including: Islamic architecture, Persian gardens, calligraphy and architecture in the Islamic world, Islamic cities, and urban landscapes. His research on synagogues of Iran has been supported by National Endowment for Humanities. Moreover, in the last six years and with the support of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Gharipour has been researching health disparity and the design of community clinics in American cities. Dr. Gharipour is the director and founder of the award-winning International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA), the director and co-founder of the Epidemic Urbanism Initiative, and the president of the Society of Architectural Historians.
Mahyar Arefi is a Professor of Planning at the University of Texas at Arlington and received his PhD in planning from the University of Southern California in 1999. Specializing in the areas of urban design theory and practice, he has published extensively on urban design pedagogy and practice, placemaking and bottom-up urbanism. His recent books include: Learning from Informal Settlements in Iran: Models, Policies, Processes & Outcomes and a co-edited volume entitled: “The Palgrave Handbook of Bottom-up Urbanism.” In addition to serving on the editorial boards of many journals and serving as co-editor of Urban Design International, he has been recipient of several awards including the US Department of Housing and Urban Development doctoral dissertation in 1998-99, Goody Clancy's 2005 Faculty Fellowship, and Fulbright Scholarship in 2006.
badi) is a professor of Architectural History at ENSA Nantes – France. After his master’s degree in architecture (University of Tehran, 2006), he defended a PhD thesis on the architectural history of the Parisian cinemas (University of Strasbourg, 2012), then a Habilitation-HDR (Sorbonne Université, 2024) with a dissertation on Franco-Iranian exchanges in the design of academic campuses between the mid-19th century and the 1970s. His works focus more broadly on the dynamics of transmission and transfer phenomena in architecture and urban planning. He has published 3 books and more than 50 papers, approaching this issue from the perspective of architectural teaching in the 20th century, the history of building types, and the international circulation of architects, models and concepts.
