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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 housing in Tehran, shows how vernacular archetypes found their way into the construction of new neighborhoods.
The trajectory of ideal modernism towards popular modernism, the introduction of modern taste to traditional society through architects, while tracing the path of transnational models in local projects, are all subjects extensively expounded by Rana Habibi through engaging graphical analyses and appealing theoretical interpretations involving five modern Tehran neighborhoods.
Price: $141.00
Pages: 214
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Iran Studies
Publication Date:
19 November 2020
ISBN: 9789004443686
Format: Hardcover
"This book offers a valuable contribution to studies of Iranian urban modernity. Specifically valuable is its timely call for investigating mass middle-class housing projects in Tehran as tools or manifests of the city’s urban modernization processes. Likewise valuable is its historical study of five major housing projects that still provide emblematic models of modernization in Tehran"
Somaiyeh Falahat in Journal Of The International Association For The Study Of Traditional Environments, Fall 2023.
Somaiyeh Falahat in Journal Of The International Association For The Study Of Traditional Environments, Fall 2023.
Rana Habibi, Ph.D.(2015) is a practicing Brussels-based urbanist and architectural historian. She has written extensively on modernity and urbanism. She has authored several book chapters, including The Routledge Companion to Modernity, Space and Gender (Routledge, 2018).