IgraduatedYerevanEngineeringUniversityin1960withthemajorin architecture.Until1964Iwasworkingin theScientificResearchInstituteofStones andSilicates,intheDepartmentof Experimental Architectural Design. From1964Iworkedasaleaddesignerin theArmenianBranchofScientific ResearchInstituteofIndustrialDesign (VNIITE).In1970IbecameaHeadof Department of Interior and Exterior Design. Intheperiodfrom1983to1985Iwas workingintheGovernmentalDepartment ofConstructionandArchitectureinSyria ontheprojectofKasyun,asatellitecityof Damascus,thecapitalofSyria.Uponreturn from Syria I continued to work in VNIITE.