Ugo Giachery
2 stories in the library.
A life in stories
Formative Age / Shoghi Effendi (1921–1957)
The Architect Who Was Family
When it was time to build a beautiful crown over the Shrine of the Báb, Shoghi Effendi turned to a famous architect who happened to be his own father-in-law.
5 min
He Asked His Father-in-Law to Design It: The Shrine of the Báb
Rúḥíyyih Khánum's *The Priceless Pearl* recounts how, in 1942, Shoghi Effendi asked his own father-in-law — the celebrated Canadian architect William Sutherland Maxwell, then resident in Haifa — to design the arcade and superstructure of the Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel. The colonnade of Baveno granite and the Chiampo arches were the answer.
2 min