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Bahar Badiee (Ph.D.) is an Iranian-American-British architectural historian with a special interest in environmental aspects of vernacular architecture and design. Trained as an interior architect, Bahar graduated from the School of Interior Architecture and Design at the Academy of Art University of San Francisco before moving to London in 2011. Following completion of her MA at Chelsea College of Arts (University of the arts London) in 2013, she began her 4-year PhD studies, researching the historic and environmental aspects of Safavid-Persian architecture, with a special interest in colored glass lattice panels and Orsi (sash) windows, under the supervision of Dr Henrik Schoenefeldt at the Kent School of Architecture and Planning in Canterbury, England. She graduated in 2019. Bahar is a TEDx Special Event speaker and and frequently travels between Europe, Asia and the United States, where she presents her research in public lectures, TV interviews and academic symposiums. A twice Teaching Excellence Award nominee (2018/2019 & 2020/2021 academic year), Bahar currently lives in the historic city of Bryan/College Station in Texas and works as an architecture professor, CRT secretary (Curriculum and Resource Team Committee - Architecture Program) and the VPAK faculty senator (2021/2022) for the Blinn College District.
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