AD 217 IRAN: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Description

Over the last few decades, Iranian architects have made a significant contribution to architectural design. This has, however, remained largely unrecognised internationally, as architects in Iran have had little exposure in publications abroad and the diaspora of well-known Iranian designers working in the West, such as Hariri & Hariri and Nader Tehrani of NADAAA, are not necessarily associated with their cultural background. Moreover Iran, or rather Persia, has one of the richest and longest architectural heritages, which has a great deal of untapped potential for contemporary design. The intention of this issue is both to introduce key works and key architects from a range of generations – at home and abroad – and to highlight the potential of historical structures for contemporary architecture.

• Features Hariri & Hariri, Nader Tehrani of NADAAA, Farjadi Architects, and studio INTEGRATE.
• Places the spotlight on emerging practices in Iran: Arsh Design Studio, Fluid Motion Architects, Pouya Khazaeli Parsa and Kourosh Rafiey (Asar).
• Contributors include: Reza Daneshmir and Catherine Spiridonoff, Farrokh Derakhshani, Darab Diba, Dr Nasrine Faghih and Amin Sadeghy, Farshad Farahi, Mehran Gharleghi and Michael Hensel.
• Looks at garden and landscape design as well as the urban fabric in Iran from a historical and contemporary context.
• Includes articles on the work of post-revolutionary architecture.

CONTENTS

• Michael Hensel and Mehran Gharleghi: Iran: Past, Present and Future
• Michael Hensel, Defne Sunguroglu Hensel, Mehran Gharleghi and Salmaan Graig: Towards an Architectural History of Performance: Auxiliarity, Performance and Provision in Historical Persian Architectures
• Nasrine Faghih and Amin Sadeghy: Persian Gardens and Landscapes
• Farshad Farahi: World of Similitude: The Metamorphosis of Iranian Architecture
• Reza Daneshmir and Catherine Spiridonoff: Subterranian Landscape: The Far-Reaching Influence of the Underground Qanat Network in Ancient and Present-Day Iran
• Darab Diba: Contemporary Architecture of Iran
• Saman Sayar: Assimilating the Authentic with the Contemporary: The Work of Hadi Mirmiran 1945 – 2006
• Mehran Gharleghi: Practices @ Home: Assimilating the Past and the Present for a Visionary Architecture
• Michael Hensel: Practices Abroad: Today’s Diaspora, Tomorrow’s Architecture
• Michael Hensel: Latent Futures of Iranian Architecture
• Farrokh Derakhshani: Iran in the Regional Context

136 pages, color ills / 21 x 27,5 cm / English