Professors Rodolphe el-Khoury and Robert Levit were invited by the Physical Development Research Centre, Iran to present four lectures in Tehran on architecture and urbanism on January 23-25, 2008. These lectures are part of a larger series intended establish intellectual and professional exchanges between design professionals in Iran and abroad.  The series has included Nader Tehrani of Office dA and will include, this spring, Jurgen Mayer H., the current Frank Gehry International Visiting Chair in Architectural Design at al&d.