Faezeh Ashtiani
faezeh.ashtiani@gmail.com | (217) 417 4347
Education Urbana-Champaign University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) 2015 Master of Landscape Architecture - GPA: 3.82 Thesis: Principles for Designing a Modern Islamic Garden Tehran, Iran University of Tehran (UT) 2012 Master of Architecture - GPA: 3.49 Thesis: Designing the Municipality of the Capital City 2010 Bachelor of Architecrure - GPA: 3.57 Capstone Project: Organizing a day in a Shopping Center in Tehran
Professional Experience Urbana-Champaign UIUC Arboretum Summer 2014 Landscape Architecture and Horticulture Intern Designed, planted and maintained the Arboretum’s “ Hartley evaluation and display garden of annual plants”. Tehran, Iran Armanshahr Architecture and Urban Design Consultancy Summer 2013 Landscape Architecture Intern Created conceptual design for a neighborhood park. Designed and drafted planting design documents for highway buffers. Urbana-Champaign Department of Landscape Architecture at UIUC Fall 2014 Research Assistant Edited website in Squarespace for NEH Summer Institute for College Teachears, “The Alhambra”. Produced maps in Illustrator for publicaition in D. F. Ruggles, Tree of Pearls (book).
Teaching Assistant Spring 2013 Fall 2013 Spring 2014 Spring 2015
Site and Material Construction Foundation Design Studio Landform Design & Construcion Site Design Studio
Ziarat Village, Iran Iran Housing Institute 2010-2011 Architectural Design Volunteer Conducted site surveying and interviewed clients. Designed and produced construction documents for earthquake resilient housing in rural regions. Tehran, Iran VAV Studio 2010-2011 Architectural Designer Developed conceptual and preliminary design drawings in AutoCAD along with details for construction. Generated hand models and digital 3D models in Rhinoceros. Estimated building costs. Tallinn, Estonia Mind the Gap Conference – Landscape for a New Era : EFLA Regional Congress November 2011 Oral Presentation and Publication The Reflection of Balcony Design on the Quality of its Use - Collaborators: Ashtiani, F. - Einifar. A. Tehran, Iran Harvard Graduate School of Design Summer 2011 Illustrator (Online Collaboration) Developed AutoCAD drawings and 3D models in Rhinoceros for publicaion in Farshid Mousavi, The Function of Style (book). Tehran, Iran Arshikam Summer 2009 Landscape Drafter Collaborated on lighting and pavement plan with the landscape architect on a residential complex project in Djibouti. Urbana-Champaign Main Library Cataloging & Metadata at UIUC 2013 - 2015 Cataloger for Persian Books Urbana-Champaign Department of Foriegn Languages at UIUC Spring 2013 Instrcutor for Elementry Persian
Faezeh Ashtiani Awards & Honors 2015 2014 2014 2013 2010
Outstanding Graduate Student Award of the Illinois Chapter of ASLA Sasaki Day Award form the Department of Landscape Architecture at UIUC Wadsworth Business Scholarship Vincent Bellafiore Fellowship Honored Admission of Graduate Study in Architecture at University of Tehran
Professional Membership 2013 - Present American Society of Landscape Architects 2014 - Present The Honor Society of Sigma Lambda Alpha - psi Chapter
Involvement Champaign-Urbana, IL Reverse Engineering : Reconfiguring the Urban-Riparian Interface May 2015 Co-Curator for the Exhibition of the Sophomore students and EPA Campus Rainworks Challenge team Guided students with Design, Technical Question and Production. Facilitated putting the exhibit together. Champaign-Urbana, IL POINTS . LINES . TRAINS MArch 30-31, 2015 Design Charrette at the department of Landscape Architecture of UIUC
Three teams working with Shane Coen . Gina Ford . Tom Oslund Member of Gina Ford’s Team
Collaborated in groups for two days under the supervison of Gina Ford from Sasaki Associates, working on vision strategies for Champaign’s north-south rail corridor. Tehran, Iran International Conference on Architecture and Structure &
National Conference on Spatial Structures - UT May 2011 Committee Member - Workshops and Competitions Facilitated international communications, wrote biographies and workshop briefs. Conducted the judging meeting for the competitions. May 2007 Committee Member - VIP Acted as an ambassador for a visiting faculty from China.
Skills Proficient: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, AutoCAD, Rhinoceros, Google SketchUp, MS Word, Model Making Basic: Arc GIS, MS Excel, Movie Maker, Cost Estimating, Revit
Languages English (fluent) - Persian (native fluency) - Arabic (familiar with reading)