STARVING FOR PERFECTION
STARVING FOR PERFECTION
Marjan Sarab van Helmond|Zuidam architecten
Iran : Seven Faces of Civilization Youtube
Fin Garden - Kashan - 1590
The supreme Iranian art, in the proper meaning of the word, has always been its architecture.
Pre-Islamic: The Pre-Parsi style The Parsi Style The Parthian Style Islamic: The Khorasani Style The Razi Style The Azari Style The Isfahani Style
Contemporary Architecture
Reza Shah Pahlavi 1925 - 1941
Sheikh Abdolhossein Mosque - Tehran
Sheikh Abdolhossein Mosque floor plan
sepahsalar mosque - Tehran
sepahsalar School - Tehran
sepahsalar School floor plan
Karim Pirnia 1922 - 1998
Karim Pirnia’s House
Although we observe that the beauty if Iranian architecture, little by little, is fading away; but still at this time we find the perfect and rich examples in traditional cities, such as timceh aminolduleh in kashan, bazar vakil in shiraz, Ebrahim khan school in Kerman.
timceh aminolduleh - kashan
bazar vakil - shiraz
Ebrahim khan school - Kerman
Golestan Palace - Tehran
Tekieh Dolat - Tehran
Fakhroldoleh Mansion- Tehran
Concrete Factory- Tehran
European teachers Foreigners engineering European Companies European Architects
Nikolai Markov
Alborz School - Tehran
Alborz School floor plan
Italia Embassy - Tehran
House of Professor’s Adl - Tehran
Aminoldoleh Mosque - Tehran
Tomb of Gorjy - Tehran
Alborz School entrance - Tehran
Andre Godard
Iran Bastan Museum
Taghe Kasra
Iran Bastan Museum
National Library
Tomb of Hafez - Shiraz
Jamal Abad House
Ronald Marcel Dubrule
Fine Art Department of Tehran University
Medical Department of Tehran University
Amjadieh Stadium - Tehran
Vartan Hovanesian
Fine Art School - Tehran
Fine Art School - Tehran
Mohsen Foroughi
Literature department of Tehran university
National Bank - Tehran
National Bank - Tehran
Hilton Hotel - Tehran
Senate Parliament - Tehran (together with Heydar Ghiai)
Senate Parliament - Tehran (together with Heydar Ghiai)
Senate Parliament - Tehran (together with Heydar Ghiai)
House of Iran - Paris
Consequences
Tehran in 1950
Tehran after the growth in 1960
Golden Age of Modernism
Houshang Seyhoun
Dolat Abadi House
Koligun House
Tomb of Khaiam
Tomb of Khaiam
Tomb of Ferdosi and museum
Tomb of Nader Shah
Tomb of Abo-Ali Sina
Gonbad Ghaboos
Abdol-Aziz Mirza Farmanfarmaian
Saman Towers - Tehran
Postal Office - Tehran
Museum of Carpet - Tehran
Nader Ardalan
Research Centre of Management - Tehran
Research Centre of Management - Tehran
Kamran Diba
Shafagh Park - Tehran
Mosque of University of Jandipour - Ahvaz
Mosque of Laleh Park - Tehran
Contemporary Museum of Art - Tehran
New Shoushtar - Shoushtar
Old Shoushtar - Shoushtar
Hossein Amanat
Azadi Tower (Tower of Freedom) - Tehran
Sharif University - Tehran
Universal House of Justice - Israel
Bayside residential Tower, San Diego, California
Jiang’an Library at the Sichuan University, Chinabrary at the Sichuan University, China
5 CATEGORIES before modernism (traditional - islamic architecture) beginning of modernism modernism late modernism European modernism
Iran, A bridge between East and West
Navab highway - Tehran
International Residintial Tower of Tehran - Tehran
West or traditional?
City theatre - Tehran
Residential Tower - Tehran
Reflection
Maternal House - Shiraz
Residential Apartment - Isfihan
Mellat Park Cineplex in Tehran, Iran
Villa - Mazandaran
Shop - Najafabad - 2012
Tehran Stock Exchange Competition
Tehran Stock Exchange Competition - Winner
Bricky Pattern House - 3rd Place in Me’mar Annual Award ( Residential projects ) - 2011
Towards the Future
By benefiting from western thinking, by incorporating the technological facilities of today, together with inspirations from universal Iranian architecture as an abstract expression, architects may indeed be able to create a truly Iranian contemporary architecture