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Iran: Architecture for Changing Societies

Iran: Architecture for Changing Societies

Jodidio, Philip
Aga Khan Award for Architecture

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Architecture History

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ISBN10: 8842212369
ISBN13: 9788842212362
Publisher: Umberto Allemandi and Company
Pages: 218
Weight: 2.69
Height: 0.88 Width: 8.78 Depth: 11.16
Language: English
In many ways, closed to the outside world since the 1979 Revolution, Iran remains a remarkably rich environment for architecture, both historic and contemporary. A large young population avidly seeks information on trends in the Western world, while the very active Iranian Cultural Heritage Organisation (ICHO) maintains high standards of intervention on the country's considerable array of monuments. It is in this context that the Architecture For Changing Societies, an international seminar, was created. The seminar was held on October 2002 in Yazd, Iran and was comprised of several Iranian and Muslim organisations, as well as a number of leading figures in contemporary architecture. Participants included Seyyed Mohammad Beheshti, head of the ICHO, as well as such internationally recognised figures as the Japanese architect Arata Isozaki and the American critic Charles Jencks. Architects and participants from Iran engaged for the first time in an open and fruitful discussion with their colleagues fr

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