Zahra Safaverdi

Zahra Safaverdi is the founder of “St. Sa.”  and an assistant professor of architecture at Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Trained as an architect, she creates, curates, educates, and writes about design. Her disciplinary work explores methods of using architecture and design as a proxy for collective cultural memory, to bring different historical and geographical points to closer proximity.

She is the recipient of the American Institute of Architecture Design Award and ACSA Architecture Education Award. She has been a Dean’s Merit Scholar at Harvard University, has held the Irving Innovation fellowship at Harvard GSD, the Schidlowski emerging faculty fellowship, the architecture residency at Art Omi, the artist residency at the Ragdale Foundation, the MacDowell residency and endowed Wilder Green Fellowship in Architecture, and the residency at the Boghossian Foundation’s Villa Empain. Her award-winning work and design contributions have been exhibited globally in Boston, Cambridge, Chicago, Houston, Kent, Knoxville, Locarno, Los Angeles, London, Lubbock, Madrid, New York, Saint Louis, San Louis Obispo, Vancouver, and Venice.