Alireza Khalatbari is currently pursuing his Master of Architecture degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology- MIT. His academic and professional work explores the interplay between formalism and realism in the contemporary world. He engages architectural projects with their cultural, social, and economic context. His projects focus on the resurgence of architectural original form and architectural typologies by abstracting and defamiliarizing their compositional elements, spatial organization, and materiality in order to redefine traditional perceptions of spaces.