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Development, Architecture, and the Formation of Heritage in Late Twentieth-Century Iran - Ali Mozaffari, Nigel Westbrook

Development, Architecture, and the Formation of Heritage in Late Twentieth-Century Iran

A Vital Past
Buch | Softcover
304 Seiten
2026
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-9561-6 (ISBN)
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Utilising an architectural lens, this book illustrates how development instigates interest in the past and in the process, creates heritage. It show multiple uses of the past and their contestation in highly fluid social contexts. -- .
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. -- .

Ali Mozaffari is ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow in the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship & Globalisation at Deakin University Nigel Westbrook is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Western Australia -- .

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
Bibliography -- .

Erscheint lt. Verlag 20.1.2026
Zusatzinfo 76 black & white illustrations; 8 colour plates
Verlagsort Manchester
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Hilfswissenschaften
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
Technik Architektur
ISBN-10 1-5261-9561-5 / 1526195615
ISBN-13 978-1-5261-9561-6 / 9781526195616
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