Kamran Diba

Kamran Diba (, born 5 March 1937) is an Iranian architect, visual artist, and museum director. Before the Iranian revolution Diba worked entirely in the public sector in Iran.

Biography Kamran Diba was born on 5 March 1937 in Tehran. He studied architecture at Howard University, and graduated in 1964. (in collaboration with Nader Ardalan), and the Niavaran Cultural Center in Tehran. In 1986, Diba received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for Shustar New Town in Khuzestan.

In 1967, Diba, Parviz Tanavoli, and Roxana Saba (daughter of Abolhasan Saba) founded the Rasht 29 Club on a northern street near the Amirkabir University of Technology (formerly the Tehran Polytechnic). Rasht 29 Club was named after the street address, and it was a popular hangout amongst artists of the time.

Diba served as the first Director of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art from 1976 until 1978.

In spring 1977, he was a visiting critic at Cornell University. inter alia on behalf of Oswald Mathias Ungers. That same year, 1977, Diba left Iran and moved to Paris, as well as spending time in Washington, D.C.

Diba was also an artist and had a handful of painting exhibitions in Iran.