Title & Author:

The historiography of Persian architecture / edited by Mohammad Gharipour.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Description:

xv, 232 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Series:

Iranian studies ; 29

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-225) and index.
Introduction: Shifting the historiography of Persian architecture / Mohammad Gharipour -- Re-examining 'Persianate Civitas': networked urbanities and suburban hinterlands in Erich Schmidt's Flights / Manu P. Sobti and Sahar Hosseini -- Geometry made manifest: reorienting the historiography of ornament on the Iranian plateau and beyond / Carol Bier -- 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 -- From The Survey of Persian Art to the CIA: Donald N. Wilber and Ilkhanid architecture in Iran / Patricia Blessing -- The Shahestan blueprint: the vestigial site of modernity in Iran / Shima Mohajeri -- Instituting architecture: a history of transnationalism in Iran's architecture profession, 1945-1995 / Shawhin Roudbari.

ISBN:

9781138915022 (hardback)
1138915025 (hardback)
(ebook)
9781315690476

Subject:

Architecture Iran Historiography.
Historiography History 20th century.
Architecture Iran Historiographie.
Architecture Historiography.
Historiography.
Iran.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Gharipour, Mohammad, editor.
Iranian studies (London, England) ; 29.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295424
Call No.: BIB 241645
Status: Available