Ahmad Zohadi

Ahmad Zohadi is an Iranian architecture scholar, publisher and researcher. Currently, he is the CEO and editor-in-chief of architectural magazine 2A Magazine.

He is also the founder and chief editor of ‘Architecture & Construction’, a Persian quarterly magazine, published since 2003, and distributed in Iran.

Education
Ahmad was born in Tehran. On completion of his primary and secondary education, he attended Karaj Islamic Azad University in the year 1992 for Civil & Structure Engineering. Simultaneously, he was editor and publisher of Tehran-based Architecture and Construction Magazine & 2A Magazine.

Personal
Ahmad has been known to show keen interest in photography right from his childhood. He got involved in architecture and construction after associating himself with architectural journalism. He got married in the year 2013 to Negin Farrokh. Together, they have a son named Radan.

Appreciations and recognitions

 * Arab Engineering Schooling Bureau & Harvard Design School
 * United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO Chair in Islamic Architectural University of Tehran
 * ECO Cultural Institute Headquarters, Tehran
 * The Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi, Institute For Architecture And Environmental Studies
 * The Catholic University of America, School of Architecture and planning
 * College of Architecture + Planning, The University of Utah
 * Centre of Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
 * North Carolina State University a land-grant university and a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina
 * Al Ahmadiah - Contracting & Trading
 * Nakheel, Retail Shopping Malls
 * Canadian University of Dubai
 * Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

2A Magazine
He is the current CEO and editor-in-chief of 2A magazine. It is an architectural magazine dedicated to different provincial architectures of the world, being distributed all through Middle East Asia.

2A Continental Architectural Awards
Ahmad Zohadi is the founder, organizer and director of 2A Continental Architectural Awards organized since 2015 – award organized under the banner of the 2A magazine. The first award was the 2A Asia Architecture Award 2015, held on July 15, 2015 at Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul.

Film career and interviews
He produced a documentary in 2012 on Indo-Iranian culture, history and architecture, which he wrote, produced and directed. He has also interviewed a number of famous personalities like Foster and Partners, Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi, Sergei Tchoban, Seung H-Sang, Bahram Shirdel, Richard S. Levine and John Alexander Smith.