Mohsen Foroughi (1907–1983) was an Iranian architect, a founder in 1945 of the Association of Iranian Architects and the first Iranian graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he won the prize for the best diploma in 1937. Back in Tehran he helped André Godard, Maxime Siroux and Roland Dubrulle found the university's Faculty of Fine Arts in 1940, later succeeding Godard as dean. With Heydar Ghiai he designed the Senate House in Tehran. He is best known for Niavaran Palace (1958), the Shah's residence from 1967 until the 1979 revolution.
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For the National Monuments Council he designed tombs of Persian poets. The Tomb of Saadi in Shiraz (1952), built from 1950, draws on the Chehel Sotoun pavilion. The Mausoleum of Baba Taher in Hamadan (1970) gave the poet's grave its present form. In Paris he and Ghiai prepared a first design for the Fondation Avicenne (Maison de l'Iran) (1969), a student residence at the Cité internationale universitaire; when the city authorities rejected it, André Bloc brought in Claude Parent, and the four completed it together, on three welded-steel frames about 38 metres high.
