Dr. Mohammad Reza Ghaneei, the eighth architect of Iran in 2023

In recognition of 50 years of unceasing efforts to promote the contemporary architecture of Iran and promote the idea of "contextual architecture" through numerous scientific and practical projects, writings and nurturing several generations of influential Iranian architects in line with it. Mohammad Reza Ghaneei has been able to take a forward-looking look at the architecture and culture of this land. Respect the roots and values of Iranian architecture and create architecture in its time that matches its context.

In all these years, he has painstakingly tried to make us understand the truth of Iranian architecture in our time by making his thoughts and ideas objective. He has spent more than 40 years of his life improving and improving the contemporary architecture of Iran, and through progressive and lasting buildings such as the "Central Library of Isfahan Municipality" as the most avant-garde examples of architecture of his time; He has thought about the future of Iran and its architecture.

From his first works, he has always been trying to create the architecture that comes from his mind for this land of growth and excellence. And he has considered the excellence of his society above all dependent on improving the level of social culture arising from the benefit of valuable architecture.

In this destructive era, when the values, heritage and national wealth of this land are rapidly losing color in the wheel of economic ideas; As the first concern and preserver of the native architecture of Iran,he has paved the way for the restoration and protection of the historical buildings of Yazd