Main entry:

Grigor, Talinn, 1972-

Title & Author:

Building Iran : modernism, architecture, and national heritage under the Pahlavi monarchs / Talinn Grigor.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Periscope Publishing, distributed by Prestel, ©2009.

Description:

237 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-229) and index.
Prologue. Civil(izing) heritage ; Politicized ruins -- Founding a society. Debating modernists ; Discourse on heritage ; Civil(ized) pilgrimage ; Reformulated heritage -- Inventing heritage. A lost grave ; "I could break it with my fingers" ; National certitude -- Refashioning the fatherland. Architectural metamorphosis ; Touring Persia ; Fallen modernists -- Aryanism and the museum. Architecture under erasure ; The birth of l'Architecte ; A museum of civilization -- Traditionalism and the White Revolution. Pilgrims to nowhere ; The location of architecture ; Return to tradition -- Masculinist myths of modernism. A Persian art history? ; Politics of preservation ; Architecture as echo -- Epilogue. Architecture in (R)evolution ; Co-opted modernity.

ISBN:

9781934772782
193477278X

Subject:

Pahlavi dynasty, 1925-1979.
Architecture Iran.
Architecture
Civilization
Politics and government
Iran Civilization.
Iran History 20th century.
Iran Politics and government 20th century.
Iran Civilisation.
Iran Histoire 20e siècle.
Iran Politique et gouvernement 20e siècle.
Iran

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 276265
Call No.: BIB 210819
Status: Available