Gholamreza Pasban Hazrat was born in 1944 in Mashhad. He completed his primary education at Makarem and Hedayat schools in the Eidgah neighborhood, and attended Mostofi Evening High School in Mashhad on a part-time basis. Before entering university, and concurrently with his high school studies, he worked for eight years (1957–1965) as an accountant in two trading companies in Mashhad.
In 1965, he entered the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Tehran to study architecture, graduating in 1972. His professional career began in 1965 while he was still studying at the Faculty of Architecture. Gradually, he participated in the preparation of six diploma (graduation) projects for fellow students.
He also collaborated under the supervision of the late architect Manouchehr Iranpour on the design of the Zoroastrian Student Dormitory, and later worked with Hossein Amanat’s office on several residential–commercial projects in Daryakenar. In 1969, he joined the technical office of the newly established Ministry of Agricultural Products, where he worked on early projects related to the development of service and educational facilities in the agricultural sector.
In 1972, together with two fellow alumni, he co-founded AP Consulting Engineers. Within this firm, he contributed to the design of several notable projects including a hotel in northern Iran, multiple villas and apartment buildings, refugee camps for displaced Iraqi Kurds, the renovation of the Khashayar branch of Bank Melli, the Negarestan Museum, the Marble Palace Museum, and Jamshidieh Garden in Tehran.
In 1979, together with several university colleagues, he founded Baft-e-Shahr Consulting Engineers. During its early years, the firm focused on post-earthquake reconstruction and rehabilitation projects, the design and supervision of refugee camps in Khuzestan, and housing projects for earthquake victims in Golbaf, Kerman. These efforts were carried out on-site and entirely on a voluntary basis. In 1981, Baft-e-Shahr continued its work with the addition of new experts, aligning its operations with the revised regulations of the National Planning Organization.
He served as the managing director of Baft-e-Shahr for over three decades, across two separate terms. Over more than forty years of leadership, research, and design work within the firm, he directed and coordinated seven major groups of projects in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and urban-environmental design. His body of work can be classified into several key categories:
1. Residential – 29 Projects
2. Public Complexes & Buildings – 66 Projects
3. Urban Paradises – 15 Projects
4. Public Gardens (Parks) – 7 Projects
5. Urban Landscape Architecture – 14 Projects
6. Urban–Environmental Design – 38 Projects
7. Special Projects – Projects
Among these, he placed particular emphasis on urban paradises (interconnected gardens) for their capacity to create vibrant and natural spaces for citizens; public gardens for facilitating people’s interaction with nature; and urban–environmental design for its active stewardship, ecological restoration, and sustainable integration of human life with natural urban environments.
He has published three books:
Reconstruction and Renewal of War-Damaged Areas
(limited print, 1979)Designing in Nature
(focused on Ferdowsi Garden and Jamshidieh Park, 2009)Designing Urban Paradises
(focused on Kuhsangi Paradise, 2012)
