Dena is a lecturer in the History and Theory of Architecture who has over 16 years of university teaching and research experience, and 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 senior lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire. She spent several years at the Institute of Psychoanalysis in Maida Vale, London. She worked for and contributed to Dezeen in its early years and was their first employee from a History and Theory of Architecture background.
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. 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 