Hossein Sadri

Hossein Sadri
Personal details
Born	(1979-10-09) 9 October 1979 (age 46) Tabriz, Imperial State of Iran
Residence	United Kingdom
Alma mater	Islamic Azad University of Tabriz (M.Sc. in Architecture) University of Tabriz (Islamic Philosophy ) Hacettepe University (Human Rights Philosophy) Yildiz Technical University (History of Architecture) Central European University (Sustainable Human Development and Urban Transition) Gazi University (Ph.D. in Architecture)
Website	https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/persons/hossein-sadri

Hossein Sadri is a scholar and activist of Iranian Azerbaijani descent. He is currently working as the director of MArch at Coventry University. ^[1]

Career

Between 2010 and 2021, Sadri worked as a professor of architecture and urban design at Girne American University where he held the position of the dean of the faculty of architecture, design & fine arts between 2012–2016. ^[2] He held also academic teaching and research positions at Islamic Azad University of Tabriz in IRAN (2003–2005), Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences(2006), American University in Canterbury – UK (2011), and City University of New York in the USA (2018). He studied undergraduate and graduate courses in the departments of Architecture, Philosophy, and Environmental Sciences and Policy at Islamic Azad University of Tabriz in IRAN (1997–2005), Gazi University (2006–2010), Hacettepe University (2007), and Yildiz Technical University (2007) in TURKEY, and Central European University in HUNGARY (2007 & 2008). ^{[3] [4]}

His research won several awards including Royal Institute of British Architects Research Fund in 2025 ^[5] . He also won the Iranian National Prize for Study and Research for three consecutive years and PhD Research Fellow from Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye. ^[6] . He co-edited Cities without Capitalism, foreword by Peter Marcuse and published by Routledge in 2022. ^[7] . His Ph.D. dissertation entitled Architecture and Human Rights was an interdisciplinary studies on the spatiality of human rights. ^[8] .

As a human rights activist, he is a member of Amnesty International and since 2006 he worked respectively as Ankara Coordinator, National Coordinator of Urgent Action in Turkey, National Coordinator of Counter Terror with Justice Campaign, Coordinator of Istanbul, EU Contact Person of Amnesty International Turkey, Member of International Relations Group and National Coordinator of Human Rights Education in Turkey. ^[9]

He is an endurance runner and runs marathons to fundraise for human rights causes. ^[10]

Books

• Cities without Capitalism, Collaboratively with Senem Zeybekoğlu, Routledge, 2021
• Neo-Liberalism and the Architecture of the Post Professional Era, Springer, 2018, ISBN   978-3-319-76266-1 ^[11]

Selected publications

• Urbanization as Taxidermy: 'Man'hattanization of Mannahatta ^[12]
• Miniature as a way of representation in design studio: a case study, ^[13]
• De-Urbanization and the Right to the De-Urbanized City, ^[14]
• Urbanization: Planting Forests in Pots ^[15]
• Urban Cages and Domesticated Humans ^[16]
• Profession vs Ethics ^[17]
• "Özgürleştirici Mimarlık Eğitimi" (Liberating Architectural Education), ^[18] Journal of Critical Pedagogy, 2013
• "Etik Bir Sorun Olarak Mimarlar İş-Galindeki Mimarlik" (Architecture Under the Occupation of Architects as an Ethical Problem), ^[19] Serbest Mimar Journal, 2013
• "Professional Ethics in Architecture and Responsibilities of Architects towards Humanity", ^[20] Turkish Journal of Business Ethics, 2012
• "Mimarlık ve İnsan Hakları" (Architecture and Human Rights), ^[21] Mimarlik Journal of Architecture, 2012
• "Şark Şehrinin Uyanışı: Nakş-I Cihan Meydanının İnşası ve Şehircilikte İfahan Okulu" (Revival of an Eastern City: Construction of Naqsh-e Jahan Square and Isfahan School of Urbanism), ^[22] Mimarlik Journal of Architecture, 2011
• "Mekan ve İnsan Hakları" (Space and Human Rights) 2011 ^[23]
• "Kadınların Kent Hakkı" (Women's Right to the City), 2011 ^[24]

References

1. "Hossein Sadri". Coventry University. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
2. "Message of the Dean". Faculty of Architecture, Design & Fine Arts. Girne American University. Archived from the original on 6 November 2013. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
3. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Faculty of Architecture, Design & Fine Arts. Girne American University . Retrieved 31 August 2013.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
4. "Editorial Team". www.formacivitatis.com. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
5. "RIBA Research Fund".
6. "Hossein Sadri Profile Page".
7. "Cities Without Capitalism".
8. "Turkish News - Latest News from Turkey". Hürriyet Daily News. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
9. "Hossein Sadri | The City College of New York - Academia.edu". ccny1-cuny.academia.edu. Archived from the original on 19 December 2019. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
10. "Hossein Sadri | runbritain rankings".
11. Sadri, Hossein, ed. (2018). Neo-liberalism and the Architecture of the Post Professional Era. The Urban Book Series. Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-76267-8. ISBN   9783319762661. S2CID   199491187.
12. Sadri, Hossein (2021). "Urbanization as taxidermy: "Man"hattanization of Mannahatta" . Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research. 15 (2): 434–446. doi:10.1108/ARCH-01-2020-0006. S2CID   226336563.
13. Zeybekoglu, Senem; Sadri, Hossein (2019). "Miniature as a way of representation in design studio: A case study" . Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research. 13 (2): 408–424. doi:10.1108/ARCH-02-2019-0037. S2CID   197455594.
14. Sadri, Hossein; Zeybekoglu, Senem (2018). "Deurbanization and the right to the deurbanizaed city". Anduli (17): 205–219. doi: 10.12795/anduli.2018.i17.10 .
15. "Urbanization: Planting Forests in Pots | Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs". Archived from the original on 22 March 2018. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
16. Hariry, Zhino (1 January 2017). "The Influence of Globalization on Distracting Traditional Aesthetic Values in Old Town of Erbil" . International Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs. 1 (1): 56–66. doi: 10.25034/1761.1(1)56-66 (inactive 12 July 2025). ISSN   2475-6156.
17. Zhang, Donia (1 July 2017). "Courtyard Housing in China: Chinese Quest for Harmony". International Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs. 1 (2): 38–56. doi: 10.25034/ijcua.2017.3647 . ISSN   2475-6156.
18. "Eleştirel Pedagoji". Archived from the original on 11 August 2014. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
19. Sadri, Hossein (March 2013). "Etik Bir Sorun Olarak Mimarlar İş-Galindeki Mimarlik (Architecture Under the Occupation of Architects, an Ethical Problem)". Serbest Mimar Journal of Architecture.
20. http://www.isahlakidergisi.com/pdf/en/af74c6fb6f6415b0e39e7d5c0c13d3b6driEN.pdf%5B%5D
21. "..| Mimarlık Dergisi |." www.mimarlikdergisi.com. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
22. "..| Mimarlık Dergisi |." www.mimarlikdergisi.com. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
23. Hossein Sadri (June 2011). "Mekan ve insan hakları" (PDF). Dosya 25 (in Turkish).
24. Hossein Sadri (March 2011). "Kadınların Kent Hakkı" (PDF). Bülten 87.