Siamak Hariri
Siamak Hariri, born in Germany, obtained his education at the University of Waterloo and Yale University (M. Arch 1985). Siamak is a founding partner of the award winning architectural practice Hariri Pontarini Architects (1994) in Canada, and is currently the partner-in-charge of the Progressive Architecture Award winning Bahá'í Temple for South America in Santiago, Chile - the final of nine continental temples for the Bahai community. His internationally-acclaimed projects include the McKinsey & Company Toronto Headquarters at the University of Toronto Campus, which is considered to be the youngest building to ever receive heritage designation by the City of Toronto.

Siamak lectures locally and internationally, with recent engagements at the Architectural Institute of British Columbia; the American Institute of Architects of Indianapolis, Indiana; the ACADIA Conference at the University of Toronto, as well as conferences in Chile, Germany, Italy and Brazil. He sits on the board of the Royal Ontario Museum's Institute for Contemporary Culture and since 1991, he has been anadjunct professor at the University of Toronto's School of Architecture Landscape and Design.