Dena is a lecturer in the History and Theory of Architecture. She has been teaching at the Architectural Association in London since 2010, where she studied, and has also held visiting lectureships at the University of Navarra and Aarhus School of Architecture, in addition to serving as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire. Her work has extended beyond academia, having spent several years at the Institute of Psychoanalysis, and contributed to Dezeen during its formative years, bringing a history and theory perspective that helped establish a space for architectural critique. Alongside her teaching and research, she is currently pursuing a DPhil at the University of Oxford.
Her research explores the relationship between the emergence of new urban and architectural forms in Europe and the United States of America from the eighteenth century to the present, and how they intersect with the history of psychiatry and psychological experience. Her broader work focuses on Iranian architecture of the modern period, with particular attention to questions of heritage, conservation, and preservation.
In addition to this work, she creates useful and ornamental objects using the mediums of leather and precious metal.
DENA ZIARI 