Hadi Teherani was born in 1954 in Teheran, Iran. He studied architecture at Braunschweig University in Germany.
He has been working as a freelance architect since 1990; in 1991 he founded the Studio BRT – Bothe Richter Teherani – and later the Hadi Teherani AG in Hamburg (Germany). He has been a member of the Freie Akademie der Künste Hamburg since 1999.