2025
Derived from my grandfather’s caligraphy, I combined Persian poetic elements with traditional miniature style painting to create collages as a mode of storytelling.
2024
Commissioned collage combining elements of the recipients home and heritage.
2024
Derived from my grandfather’s caligraphy, I combined Persian poetic elements with traditional miniature style painting to create collages as a mode of storytelling.
Ava Razavi آوا رضوی
razaviava12@gmail.com
Ava is an interdisciplinary Architectural Designer based in Seattle. She is passionate about weaving her technical construction experience with her cultural identiy to create intential and human-focused designs.
bolbol is her latest creative endeavour that aims to showcase a broad portfolio of architectural case studies and collage-style art pieces.
bolbol is the Persian word for the nightengale bird and remains a strong element in Iranian poetry and folklore. The nightengale represents a character that speaks for the voiceless and love. As a designer, Ava hopes to embody bolbol through art and the built environmnet by advocating for people, animals and ecology..
B.S. Construction Management ‘23
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
MG2 Design
Seattle, WA
Assist with the production of contract deliverables including field surveys, design drawings, construction documents, exhibits, and specifications for 15-20 tenant improvement projects concurrently.
Project Engineer
MRJ Constructors
Seattle, WA
Coordinatied various sized commercial and hospitality tenant improvement projects, collaborating with designers, owners, consultants, and trades.
Fall 2021 Studio
The South Park neighborhood presents as a unique industrial-residential typology, with critically low community and green space for residents. The project included a rowing shell house and a complete site design aimed at creating a new home for the local rowing team and repurposing the site for community space.
Winter 2022 Studio
Located in central Seattle, Little Saigon presents itself as a colletive of transgenerational living. The housing project aims to provide ample dwelling with a focus on community and the evolving nature of human activity.
My main role was designing the facade, which features exterior balconies and vertical cedar screens to diffuse the light. The cedar screens are operable, creating an ever changing facade.
2022 Spring Studio