Armand Biglari

Armand Biglari has over 25 years of experience in all aspects of large green urban projects to include concept, planning, development, infrastructure, and construction in United States, Europe, and China. Since 1991 he has continued to create architectural paintings, drawings. and theoretical writings that have been exhibited and published internationally. His ongoing architectural drawing and painting projects transcribe years of formal investigation and synthesis of architecture as symbolic form. These explorations into the origins of architecture as icon represent research that informs his built work. Since 2019 he has been developing the Tbilisi master plan project in Georgia with world renowned architect Peter Eisenman and distinguished landscape architect Laurie Olin. This Project has been exhibited at The National Museum of Contemporary Arts, Athens.

Armand is the co-founder of AnyLAB, an architectural and environmental think-tank, located in New York City, established to explore spatial, formal, and theoretical research in architecture alongside expansive interdisciplinary critical discourse to develop a new spatial paradigm in the context of the ongoing global climate crisis.

Over the years Armand has participated in multiple architectural juries at ALN , The Cooper Union, Illinois Institute of Technology, Columbia University Annex (Paris), University of Grenoble, and Yale School of Architecture.

His works have been published in Chimeres Journal of Philosophy founded by Deleuze and Guattari; Critical Secret Journal; “Sun Ship” exhibition book by Arts, Letters and Numbers; “Symbols and Iconic Ruins ” by National Museum of Contemporary Arts, Athens.
Armand completed his thesis in architecture with honors at The Cooper Union under John Hejduk.