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Ministry of Science, Researchand Technology
Shabestan Architectural and Urban Studies Research Center 

With the new name of Sheikh Baha'i Research Center

Founders and faculty members of SHAUC, after years of doing research in such fields as architecture, urban planning and construction, obtained the License No. 2.22.243771 from the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology of Islamic Republic of Iran.
The center covers international activities, and its central office, according to the said License, is located in Tehran, Iran. The nature of research conducted in SHAUC, the variety of activities, and the academic level of authorities (including experts, managers, postgraduate students, instructors, and researchers) basically cover postgraduate studies and beyond.

Description of Services
In accordance with the description of services approved in the Articles of Association certified by the Ministry of Science, SHAUC provides the following services in the fields of architecture, urban planning and construction:

- Publishing specialized scientific journals
- Publishing specialized books
- Recognizing research requirements and performing basic, applied and developmental research

Projects
- Providing technology services and technical consultation
- Holding intensive technical courses
- Holding national and international conferences and seminars
- Cooperating with research centers and national and international universities
- Developing software and computer programs

Activities
Research activities conducted in thid research center include three areas: (a) architecture, (b) urban studies and installations, and (c) new energies in architecture and urban design.
Architecture Studies, under the supervision of Babak Dariush, includes the following sub-sections:
- Architecture Studies
- Rural architecture
- Construction management and industrial building Construction

Urban Studies, under the supervision of Farzad Mirmojarabian, subsumes the following sub-sections:
- Urban and regional planning
- Economics and Urban Management
- Ecotourism

New installation and renewable energies, under the supervision of Ahmad Azadi, subsumes the following sub-sections:
-  Smart cities and houses
- Renewable energiesodern installations in cities and construction

Completed projects

- Nanomaterials in city views
- Social Studies of Revolution Square
- Development of cultural criteria in the construction of higher education spaces
- Spatial-physical requirements of international universities
- Women urban landscape studies of Tehran
- Requirements for designing dormitories for married students
- Design and construction of intelligent load balancing system for residential consumers
- An introduction to Iranian literature and architecture
- Studies on holding free-thinking chairs on cultural issues of physical spaces of the country's universities
- Reduce gas consumption in the building with a combined intelligent system
- Lifestyle and architecture of Tehran
- The relationship between Alborz mountains and Tehran
- Globalization and architecture of Tehran
- Environmental intelligence and its institutionalization in society

Faculty members And Researchers

• - Babak Dariush President of the Institute, Ph.D. in Urban Landscape Architecture, University of Geneva
• - Farzad Mirmojarabian Ph.D. in Urban Planning, University of Isfahan
• - Ahmad Azadi Ph.D. in Electricity, Renewable Energy, Semnan University
• - Mohammad Fateh Ph.D. in Architecture, Housing, University of Paris 8
• - Ehsan Khayambashi Ph.D. in Urban Planning, Crisis, and Urban Resilience, University of Isfahan
• - Soheil Soleimian Ph.D. in Sociology, Cultural Studies, Azad University of Tehran
• - Fatemeh Dastyar Ph.D. in Urban Planning, Tehran University
• - Amir Pejman Darvish Ph.D. in Architecture, Azad University of Tehran
• - Maryam Dastyar MA in Educational Sciences Education Management, Tehran University

Part-time faculty members 

• - Gholamreza Taleghani Ph.D. in Public Management (Tourism Development), California, Professor, University of Tehran
• - Seyed Yaghoub Mousavi Ph.D. in Urban Sociology, Newcastle University, Associate Professor, Al-Zahra University
• - Hamidreza Ameri Ph.D. in Urban Planning, University of Paris 12, Associate Professor, Payame Noor University
• - Mohammad Taleghani Ph.D. in Architectural Energy, Delft University, Assistant Professor of Research, University of Salford

Call for paper in  socio-spatial studies journal