Ali Mozaffari, Nigel Westbrook

Development, architecture, and the formation of heritage in late twentieth-century Iran (eBook, ePUB)

A vital past

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses the use of the past and the production of heritage through architectural design in the developmental context of Iran, a country that has endured radical cultural and political shifts in the past five decades. Offering a trans-disciplinary approach toward complex relationship between architecture, development, and heritage, Mozaffari and Westbrook suggest that transformations in developmental contexts like Iran must be seen in relation to global political and historical exchanges, as well as the specificities of localities. The premise of the book is that development has been a globalizing project that originated in the West. Transposed into other contexts, this project instigates a renewed historical consciousness and imagination of the past. The authors explore the rise of this consciousness in architecture, examining the theoretical context to the debates, international exchanges made in architectural congresses in the 1970s, the use of housing as the vehicle for everyday heritage, and forms of symbolic public architecture that reflect monumental time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526150141
• Artikelnr.: 60320239

Autorenporträt

Ali Mozaffari and Nigel Westbrook

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Development, architecture, and heritage: The formation of a
collective imagination 1 A vital past: Engaging nostalgia 2 Canvassing a
future: The international congresses of architecture in Iran and the
transnational search for identity 3 Heritage in the everyday: Housing and
collective identity before 1979 4 Forming a future from the past: Realizing
an everyday Islamic identity 5 Forming a national image through public
projects - The Shahyad Arya-Mehr Tower 6 Tehran's reluctant urban centre:
Representing the national capital Conclusion: Design as the mediator of
development and heritage Bibliography