#books #guides #architecture | Architectural guide Iran : from the Safavids to the Iranian revolution

Architectural guide Iran : from the Safavids to the Iranian revolution / Thomas Meyer-Wieser.
DOM, Berlin : 2017.
575 p. : il.
ISBN 9783869225708
Arquitectura -- Guías.
Arquitectura -- Irán.
Sbc Aprendziaje / Referencia A-(036)72(55) ARC
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1871837~S1*spi

Iran has one of the oldest town cultures in the world, going back more than 4,000 years. Between the Islamic conquest in the seventh century and Westernisation in the second half of the nineteenth century, the cities and towns in today’s Islamic Republic of Iran underwent repeated changes. Persian building culture influenced architects and artists as far as Central Asia in the north and India in the east. Unlike any other country in the region, Iran shows a unique urban and architectonic development whose defining characteristics merged with other cultures over time, representing an important contribution to world architecture. In this architectural guide, author and architect Thomas Meyer-Wieser embarks on a journey into history, showcasing nearly 300 buildings and other projects in Tehran, Isfahan and Shiraz. His focus is on the Iranian-Islamic architectural identity, which has held its own since the rise of the Safavids in 1501.

#books #architecture | Islamic architecture in Iran : poststructural theory and the architectural history of iranian mosques

Islamic architecture in Iran : poststructural theory and the architectural history of iranian mosques / Saeid Khaghani
I. B. Tauris, London [etc.] : 2012
X, 245 p. : il.
Colección: International Library of Iranian Studies ; 34
ISBN 9781848857292
Arquitectura islámica -- Irán.
Mezquitas -- Irán.
Sbc Aprendizaje A-72.033.3 ISL
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1747965~S1*spi

The architecture of the Islamic world is predominantly considered in terms of a dual division between ""tradition"" and ""modernity"" - a division which, Saeid Khaghani here argues, has shaped and limited the narrative applied to this architecture. Khaghani introduces and reconsiders the mosques of eighth- to fifteenth-century Iran in terms of poststructural theory and developments in historiography in order to develop a brand new dialectical framework. Using the examples of mosques such as the Friday Mosques in Isfahan and Yazd as well as the Imam mosque in Isfahan, Khaghani presents a new way of thinking about and discussing Islamic architecture, making this valuable reading for all interested in the study of the art, architecture, and material culture of the Islamic world.