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Iran in Venice twelfth Biennial of Architecture
Mahmud Shaluee, the director of visual arts department of the Ministry of Guidance spoke about the opening of Venice twelfth biennial of architecture next month and said: This biennial will begin on August 26 in Venice, Italy with the participation of 63 countries...
Veteran Iranian architect Kourosh Farzami, who is best known for designing the main gate of Tehran University, has passed away at the age of 73...
Roberto Rosolen, an official of the 12th Venice Biennale of Architecture met with Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMCA) Director Mahmud Shaluii and invited representatives of the museum to attend the biennale this year.
The National Museum of Oriental Art in Rome will be playing host to the seminar “Traditional and Desert Architecture of Iran” from April 9 to 12.
Iranian archeologists have unearthed two 2,500 -year-old palaces and 18 columns belonging to the Achaemenid era in southern Iran.
Somayeh Rokhgireh, Iranian architect, wins the first prize for Alamoot’s self-sustainability project. MIPIM award winning Alamoot's design is based on the proposition that eco-tourism will make a positive contribution to a stagnating local community
 
 
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Embassy: Tale of Two Cultures
In the winter and spring of 1974, Christian Norberg-Schulz was guest professor of Architecture at MIT and I had the chance of taking the two courses he taught during that semester.
The story of Iran’s present day architecture goes far beyond formal expressions or generated ideas. In fact, diverse controversial factors did shape the final entity. Any evaluation or criticism, without an accurate review on the dialectic platform of the historical process, will have all kinds of shortcuts, fallouts and misunderstandings.
Iran’s contemporary architecture can be divided into three periods. From the 1960’s up to the Islamic Revolution constitutes.
I Return home and to Architecture
 

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