Hootan was born in 1972 in IRAN and started his third grade when he was seven years old.
His first passion in art started at the age of twelve, he experimented with oil on canvas and
water-color and realized how limitless these techniques can be. From that time, he wanted to be
an Architect. Six years later, Hootan found his way to the School of Architecture and Urbanism
at Shahid Beheshti University, also known as National University of Iran. He graduated in Masters
Degree in Architecture in 1998.
Hootan’s Inspiration in Art not only effected in every aspect of his life and design, but also
lead him to distribute it by start teaching in university at the age of 21 in Architecture
field. After 8 years, he was known as a “outstanding professor of Architecture” in Tehran.
Hootan moved to United States in 2002 and continued his abilities in Design by establishing
his firm “Hootan & Associates.
He is working on a new way of expressing one artistic feeling and idea by using several media.
For one single concept, he creates painting, make a Clay work and sculpture, write a poem and
compose a music . Hootan tries to dig deeper on one feeling with 3 or more different pieces of Art.