Modern Middle-Class Housing in Tehran : Reproduction of an Archetype: Episodes of Urbanism 1945-1979 /

Modern Middle-Class Housing in Tehran : Reproduction of an Archetype: Episodes of Urbanism 1945-1979 /

"In Modern Middle-Class Housing in Tehran - Reproduction of an Archetype, Rana Habibi offers an engaging analysis of the modern urban history of Tehran during the Cold War period: 1945-1979. The book, while arguing about the institutionalism of modernity in the form of modern middle-class housi...

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Main Author: Habibi, Rana (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2021.

Series: Iran Studies ; 21.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441286.

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Cities and towns > Iran > Tehran > History > 20th century.
Housing > Iran > Tehran > History > 20th century.
Middle class > Iran > Tehran > History > 20th century.
Tehran (Iran) > Buildings, structures, etc.

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Call Number: HD7359.2.A3

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Illustrations
  • Persian Transcription
  • Introduction
  • 1 Middle-Class Housing Development in Tehran and the Question of Non-Western Modernity
  • 2 Iran's Position Amidst Non-Western Architectural Modernism
  • 3 Modernism as Institutionalism
  • 4 From Ideal Modernism to Popular Modernism
  • 5 Modernism as a Taste
  • 6 Modernism as a Transnational Model
  • 7 Tehran Urban Modernization: Articulation of the Walled Gardens and Urban Planning Laws
  • 8 Modern Middle-Class Quarters: A Reproduction of Archetype
  • 1 The Unveiled House - The Institutionalization of Modern Middle-Class Neighborhoods in 1940s Tehran: Chahārsad Dastgāh, 1946
  • 1 Growth of the Middle Class, the Question of Modern Collective Housing, and the Birth of Tehran's First Modern Neighborhood
  • 2 Modern District: The Courtyard House New Urban Block Configuration - Chahārsad Dastgāh
  • 3 A Modern House by Law: Expansion of Modernity
  • 4 Conclusion
  • 2 Architects and Architecture without Architects: Nārmak, 1952
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Reformers
  • 3 A Modernist Vision for a Middle-Class Neighborhood - Nārmak
  • 4 A Yard: Contextualization of the Modern
  • 5 Builders: Negotiating the Modern
  • 6 Conclusion
  • 3 Modern Taste - Iranian Domestic Cultural Transformation and the Excellence of the Car-Urban Landscape: Kuy-e Farah, 1961 and Kuy-e Chahārom-e Ābān, 1969
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Modern Iranian House as Embodiment of Global Taste
  • 3 A Car-Garden Neighborhood: Transformation of an Iranian Courtyard House: The Case of Kuy-e Farah, 1961
  • 4 The Automobile Society and the Appearance of the Apartment Building: The Case of Kuy-e Chahārom-e Ābān, 1969
  • 5 Conclusion
  • 4 A Transnational Model - Internationalist Discourses and Practices in Tehran: The Case of Ekbātān, 1976
  • 1 From Oil Exporting Economy to the Internationalization of Tehran
  • 2 Iranian Internationalism: In Search of Methodology
  • 3 Iranian Internationalism in Practice: Modernist Architectural Experiments
  • 4 Ekbātān: A Transnational Architectural Model
  • 5 Neglecting Internationalism and Continuations of Modernism in Practice
  • Coda
  • 1 International Modernism and the Reproduction of Archetype 2 Row Courtyard House Model + Grid
  • 3 Linear Courtyard House Model + Grid
  • 4 Super Courtyard House Model + Grid
  • 5 Tehran: Speculative and Fragmented Middle-Class Urban Landscape
  • 6 Epilogue: Chahārbāgh as the Main Structure of the New Center of Tehran
  • Timeline
  • Bibliography
  • Index.