Dena is a lecturer in the History and Theory of Architecture who has over 14 years of university teaching and research experience. She has taught History and Theory at the Architectural Association in London since 2010, was visiting lecturer at the University of Navarra and Aarhus School of Architecture, as well as lecturing at the University of Hertfordshire for several years. Her work focuses on the relationship between the development of new urban and architectural forms from the 18th Century to the present day and what can be considered their accompanying ailments of the mind, in an attempt to situate aspects of what might be categorised as illness in Psychiatry within a realm that can be understood to be a product of the cultural evolution of urbanism as well as one of its symptoms. Her wider work spotlights the condition of Iranian Architecture of the Modern period, with a particular concern for heritage and preservation.
She also crafts useful and decorative objects using the mediums of leather and precious metals.
DENA ZIARI 