Iran: Architectural Guide
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Iran: Architectural Guide
By (Author) Thomas Meyer-Wieser
DOM Publishers
DOM Publishers
9th November 2017
Germany
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
City and town planning: architectural aspects
Architectural structure and design
History of architecture
915.50461
Physical Properties
Paperback
520
Width 134mm, Height 245mm
Description
Iran has one of the oldest town cultures in the world. It goes back more than 4,000 years. Between the Islamic conquest in the seventh century and the westernisation in the second half of the nineteenth century, the cities and towns in today's Islamic Republic of Iran underwent repeated changes. The Persian building culture influenced architects an
Author Bio
Thomas Meyer-Wieser, architect and city planner, has been studying architecture and urban development in the Islamic world since his studies at ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich). He worked as part of an internship at Modam Consulting Architects in Tehran and in 1979 on the consolidation and restoration of the Sassanian palace Qaleh-ye Dokhtar in Iranian Firuzabad. He stayed for several months in Cairo, thanks to a travel grant, where he wrote a paper on Hasan Fathy. From 1995 to 2002 he was a lecturer in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil. He has his own architectural office in Feldmeilen, Switzerland.
