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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.
Contents
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
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