Speaker: Noushin Ehsan

Professor Ehsan has taught at many universities including Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York, and Polytechnic Institute of London. Also was adjunct professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), Massachusetts and Architectural Association (AA), London. She studied architecture at Tehran University and the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, also received her master’s degree in Architecture & Urban Design from UCLA. She is a recipient of several honors and awards, which include the Design Merit Award from Hunter College in New York City and the Business Achievement Award for Betterment of the City of New York. In 2022 she publishes NOUSHIN, A Memoir: The making of a Women Architect. She is a Baha’i, and her faith is the center to her activities.