Michele Saee
Iranian architect (born 1956)
Michele Saee (born December 2, 1956) is a Los Angeles–based architect, designer and educator.
Early life and education
Saee was born in Tehran, Iran. In 1981, he received his Master of Art in Architecture degree from the University of Florence Italy. In 1982, Saee received his post graduate degree in Technical Urban Planning at the Polytechnic of Milan. In 1985, Saee started his own architectural design office in Los Angeles.
Career
Saee started his professional career working with the avant-garde architectural office of Superstudio (Natalini, Toraldo Di Francia, Magris and Frassinelli) in Florence and joined
Morphosis (Mayne, Rotondi) when he moved to Los Angeles in 1983.
Saee taught environmental and architectural design at Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles. In 1990, Saee began teaching at the Southern Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and other schools in the U.S. and abroad. Saee exhibits and lectures on architecture in many countries around the world. Saee's exhibitions includes: "The Venice Architectural Biennial 2002, Italy", "Busan Biennial, Korea 2002", "Venice Architectural Biennial 2004", and "The First Architectural Biennial Beijing China 2004".
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