Yves Ghiai

Yves Farhad Khan Ghiaï de Chamlou is an architect belgo - Iran IEN born with Uccle (Belgium) on October 26th, 1957.

Biography

Yves Farhad Khan Ghiaï of Chamlou, resulting from an big family of Khan S (Iranian nobility), finishes his secondary studies with the Lycée Janson-with-Sailly in 1977 and obtains his diploma of Architecture to the Pratt Institute of New York in 1982.

Wire of the Iranian architect Heydar Ghiaï de Chamlou, it begins its career with San Francisco where it carries out a series of at the same time futuristic residential buildings, from materials used and contextual, from volumes marrying with architecture victorienne of San Francisco.

In 1993, it obtains its first important order: design of a balneal city to the Costa Rica. To this one come to be added a center Hôtel ier of cure to Dully, in Suisse then an order aiming at redrawing the town-planning of the Center town of Prince George in Colombia-British (Canada). It is in June 2003 that the town of Prince George adopts the plan conceived by Yves Ghiai, covering the totality of its center town. Ghiai is then honoured by the mayor with Prince George, Colin Kinsley, which octroié the key of the city to him.

In April 2002, it is received member of the Académie of architecture to Paris.

Professor of architecture to the Fashion Institute off Design & Merchandizing and to the University of Berkeley, it was published in more than thirty reviews. He was also honoured by, mayor of San Francisco, which proclaimed on October 26th “Ghiaï day” in San Francisco.

Yves Ghiaï is also Franc Mason Grand Officer of honor of the French national Big room

Theories and influences

Structure

For 25 years, Yves Ghiaï has worked out a fusion of mystico-poetic elements of Iranian inspiration and modern architectural vocabulary, even futuristic.

In 1986, it develops “the pyramidal thought”, which it teaches has its pupils since and who consists has to unify and simplify the conceptual approach aiming to the creation and with the Design.

In 1989, it creates “Sensor”, modulates architectural aiming has to not measure the physical reports/ratios of proportions between the man and space, but the intuitive feelings felt compared to the architectural forms.

Strongly influenced by the work of his father Heydar Ghiaï de Chamlou, he endeavors to perpetuate an architecture of fusion between the culture Persian and the Western avant-gardism.

Painting

Influenced by the work of El Salvador Dalí and by the plastic elements of penmanship Persian, Yves Ghiaï endeavors to marry the Surréalisme with the architectural elements and the Iranian mystic by adding his own philosophical messages to it.

Philosophy

Taking example on the sentence of Heydar Ghiaï: “The proportion is not a principle of architecture but a principle of life”. Yves Ghiaï has endeavoured for 30 years to build a vision of the life based on a “architectural Esthétique”. An outline of this philosophy could be summarized in these some quotations:

the “Good” and the “Evil” do not exist, there are only the “Beautiful” and the “Ugly one”.

Principal achievements and projects

individual Villa, Cape of Antibes, France 1984
a series of complexes of jumlées dwellings, San Jose, California 1984-1989
royal Residence, San Francisco 1992
House Astrolabe, San Francisco 1996
Golestan Castle, Bay of San Francisco 2000
Metropolis, Prince George, Canada 2004
Secret Gardens, Dully, Switzerland 2005
El Golestan, Playa Large, Costa Rica 2006
individual Villa, Playa Large, Costa Rica 2006

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