The Historiography of Persian Architecture

ISBN-13: 9780815358015 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 236 str.

Opis

This book addresses the challenges, complexities, and contradictions regarding historical and geographical diversity of Persian architecture, including issues lacking in the 20th century historiography of Iran and neighbouring countries.

Spis treści

1 Introduction: Shifting the Historiography of Persianate Architecture Mohammad Gharipour 2 Persian Civitas: Revised Readings on Networked Urbanities and Suburban Hinterlands in Erich Schmidt’s Flights over Ancient Cities of Iran Manu Sobti and Sahar Sadat Hosseini 3 Geometry made Manifest: Reorienting the Historiography of Ornament on the Iranian Plateau and Beyond Carol Bier 4 The Myth-making of the Masjid-i Jamiʻ of Isfahan: Arthur Upham Pope, Architectural Photographs, and the Persian-Gothic Thesis in the 1930s Yuka Kadoi 5 From the Survey of Persian Art to the CIA: Donald N. Wilber and Ilkhanid Architecture in Iran Patricia Blessing 6 The Shahestan Blueprint: The Vestigial Site of Modernity in Iran Shima Mohajeri 7 Instituting Architecture: A History of Transnationalism in Iran’s Architecture Profession,1945–1995 Shawhin Roudbari

O autorze

Mohammad Gharipour is Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Planning at Morgan State University in Baltimore, USA and director and founding editor of the International Journal of Islamic Architecture. He has published extensively on architectural history, including Persian Gardens and Pavilions: Reflections in History, Poetry and the Arts (IB Tauris).