Mohammad Gharipour 
Architectural Dynamics in Pre-Revolutionary Iran [EPUB ebook] 
Dialogic Encounter between Tradition and Modernity

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part One: Vernacular Integrated with Modernism 

Chapter 1: A Personal Reflection: On the Traditional, the Modern and the Perennial in Iranian Architecture – Nader Ardalan

Chapter 2: Making Architecture Modern: A History of Globalization in Iran’s Architecture Profession – Shawhin Roudbari

Chapter 3: Passages and Malls in Translation: Class, Culture, and Design in the Commercial Architecture of Pahlavi Iran – Farshid Emami

Part Two: Modernism Imported, Vernacular Eclipsed 

Chapter 4: Building Cities for Tomorrow: The US Point Four Program and Discourse of Urban Planning in Iran – Sahar Hosseini

Chapter 5: The Israeli Plan for Rebuilding the Rural Region of Qazvin – Neta Feniger and Rachel Kallus

Chapter 6: Philip Johnson’s Design at Group Apartments in Isfahan: From a Dispute Between Tradition and Modernity to a Dialogue – Mehdi Azizkhani

Chapter 7: Paradise by Design: Pardisan Park in Tehran – Kathleen John-Alder

Mohammad Gharipour is professor of architecture and director of the Graduate Architecture Program at the Morgan State University School of Architecture and Planning in Baltimore, Maryland. He obtained his master’s degree in architecture from the University of Tehran and his Ph.D. in architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has published eleven books, including Persian Gardens and Pavilions: Reflections in Poetry, Arts and History (I.B. Tauris, 2013), Synagogues of the Islamic World (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), Gardens of Renaissance Europe and the Islamic Empires (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017), and Architectural Dynamics in Pre-Revolutionary Iran (Intellect, 2019). Gharipour is the director and founding editor of the International Journal of Islamic Architecture.
Contact: School of Architecture and Planning, Morgan State University, 1700 East Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore, MD 21251, United States.