Mahyar Hadighi, Ph.D.
Email: mhadighi@ttu.edu
Phone: 806.834.0120
Mahyar Hadighi is an architect, historic preservationist, educator, and researcher
whose professional background includes education, research, practice, and teaching
in both Iran and the United States. Dr. Hadighi joined the College of Architecture
in 2019. He teaches design studios, historic building technology, and history and
theory of architecture and preservation courses in both undergraduate and graduate
levels. Prior to joining the CoA, Mahyar taught courses ranging from history and theory
of architecture and preservation to architectural design at Penn State, Virginia Commonwealth
University, and James Madison University in the U.S. He also pursued research and
teaching at Marlik University in Iran, where he served as director of the undergraduate
architecture program.
Academic Degrees:
Ph.D., Penn State University, 2019
Master of Arts in Historic Preservation Planning, Cornell University, 2014
Master of Architecture (IUG), Azad University of Tehran, 2007
Research Interests
Mahyar joined the College of Architecture in 2019 to develop and lead a Master of Science degree in architecture concentrating on historic preservation and design. Supported by Texas Tech in both Lubbock and El Paso, external institutions, and also local, national, and international stakeholders, Mahyar focuses on preserving the cultural history of the local context in the U.S.‒Mexico border city of El Paso.
In general, as a practitioner, researcher, and educator, Mahyar concentrates on modernism understood in relation to historical and contemporary contexts: In particular, he documents local adaptations of modern architecture, which he then analyzes via computational design methodologies in order both to preserve them as characteristic of place and to consider them for additional locales and purposes.
Key Intellectual Products
Hadighi, M. and Duarte, JP. (2021). “Tracing Hybridity in Local Adaptation of Modern Architecture:
The Case of A. William Hajjar's Single-Family Architecture.” In: Gero, G. (ed.) Design Computing and Cognition, Springer International Publishing, in print.
Poerschke, U. and Hadighi, M. (2021). “Bill Hajjar's Air-Wall: A Mid-Twentieth-Century Four-Sided Double Skin
Façade.” In: Fordham, C. (ed.) Constructing Building Enclosures, Architectural History, Technology and Poetics in
the Postwar Era. New York: Routledge, 212-227.
Hadighi, M. (2021). “Towards a Configurable Hybridity in Historic Preservation and Design.”
In: Stojakovic, V. and Tepavcevic, B. Towards New, Configurable Architecture, Proceedings ofthe 39th eCAADeConference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, Vol 2, Novi Sad, Serbia, 293-302.
Zolghadrasli, N., Hadighi, M. and Costa, E. (2021). “Computational Generation of Hybrid Façades for a Focal Context:
The Case of Naser-Khosrow Street in Tehran.” In: Stojakovic, V. and Tepavcevic, B.
Towards New, Configurable Architecture, Proceedings ofthe 39th eCAADe Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, Vol 2, Novi Sad, Serbia, 333-340.
Hadighi, M. and Duarte, JP. (2019). “Bauhaus Internationalism to College Town Modernism: Exploring Bauhaus Culture in Hajjar's Hybrid Architecture.” In: Lee, J-H (ed.) Computer-Aided Architectural Design “Hello Culture,” (Communication in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 1028). Daejeon, Korea: Springer International Publishing, 429-443.
Funded Projects
Hadighi, M. (PI), Artopoulos, G. (2021) “From Bauhaus to the Levant: Modernization of Space
and Hybridization of Architectural Styles in Eastern Mediteranean.” 2021 International
Research and Development Seed Grants, Texas Tech University.
Zhou, Z. (PI), Huang, H (Co PI), Duarte, JP (Co PI), and Hadighi, M. (Co PI) (2020). “Learning to Generate Floorplans for Mass Customization of Housing.” $51,000
in Seed Grant Program, Penn State University.
Hadighi, M. (2015). “A Shape Grammar for Hybridity: The Domestic Architecture of William Hajjar in State College, PA.” Graham Endowed Fellowship, Penn State University
Graduate School
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Address
Administration Building 328, Texas Tech University, 2625 Memorial Circle, Lubbock, TX 79409-1030 -
Phone
806.742.2787