Nader Khalili
Nader Khalili was born in Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran on February 22nd, 1936 and is the Architect. At the age of 72, Nader Khalili biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Career
He was licensed by the state of California in 1970 and practiced architecture in the United States and around the world. Khalili was working in Iran with a conventional western-style architecture company on Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's building when he realized that his revenues were going to the expense of traditional Iranian architecture. He sold his interest in the company, bought a motorcycle, and spent the next five years in remote parts of the Iran desert. His aim was to save the historic Iranian architecture and help the homeless.
His designs are heavily inspired by traditional arid house designs in Iran's homeland. He has been involved with Earth Architecture and Third World Development since 1975 and is a United Nations architect for Earth Architecture. Khalili is best known for his contributions to the Geltaftan Earth-and-Fire System known as Ceramic Houses and the Earthbag Construction technique, Superadobe.
In reaction to a NASA call for human settlements on the moon and Mars, he invented his Super Adobe system in 1984. Prior to the Persian Gulf War, which brought refugees into Iran in 1990-1991, the scheme had been purely theoretical. Khalili joined the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and applied his studies to emergency shelters.
In 1991, he founded the California Institute of Earth Art and Architecture (Cal-Earth), where he taught his Superadobe building technique. Although Khalili's work in his home country received mixed reviews, despite the fact that social norms and political unrest influenced his career, he became a well-known American figure on the benefits of ethically based architecture, where the needs of the homeless are regarded above all else.
Khalili built a prototype of a lunar colony made from all-natural materials near the Mojave Desert in February 2000.
He died in Los Angeles on March 5, 2008, from congestive heart failure. Dastan and Sheefteh's children have continued the Dastan and Sheefteh families' legacy after his father's death.