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Modern Middle-Class Housing in Tehran
Reproduction of an Archetype: Episodes of Urbanism 1945â1979
Series: - Iran Studies, Volume: 21
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In Modern Middle-Class Housing in Tehran â Reproduction of an Archetype, Rana Habibi offers an engaging analysis of the modern urban history of Tehran during the Cold War period: 1945â1979. 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.
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).
"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 cityâs 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.
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Persian Transcription
Introduction
â1âMiddle-Class Housing Development in Tehran and the Question of Non-Western Modernity
â2âIranâs Position Amidst Non-Western Architectural Modernism
â3âModernism as Institutionalism
â4âFrom Ideal Modernism to Popular Modernism
â5âModernism as a Taste
â6âModernism as a Transnational Model
â7âTehran Urban Modernization: Articulation of the Walled Gardens and Urban Planning Laws
â8âModern Middle-Class Quarters: A Reproduction of Archetype
1 The Unveiled House â The Institutionalization of Modern Middle-Class Neighborhoods in 1940s Tehran: ChahÄrsad DastgÄh, 1946
â1âGrowth of the Middle Class, the Question of Modern Collective Housing, and the Birth of Tehranâs First Modern Neighborhood
â2âModern District: The Courtyard House New Urban Block Configuration â ChahÄrsad DastgÄh
â3âA Modern House by Law: Expansion of Modernity
â4âConclusion
2 Architects and Architecture without Architects: NÄrmak, 1952
â1âIntroduction
â2âReformers
â3âA Modernist Vision for a Middle-Class Neighborhood â NÄrmak
â4âA Yard: Contextualization of the Modern
â5âBuilders: Negotiating the Modern
â6âConclusion
3 Modern Taste â Iranian Domestic Cultural Transformation and the Excellence of the Car-Urban Landscape: Kuy-e Farah, 1961 and Kuy-e ChahÄrom-e ÄbÄn, 1969
â1âIntroduction
â2âThe Modern Iranian House as Embodiment of Global Taste
â3âA Car-Garden Neighborhood: Transformation of an Iranian Courtyard House: The Case of Kuy-e Farah, 1961
â4âThe Automobile Society and the Appearance of the Apartment Building: The Case of Kuy-e ChahÄrom-e ÄbÄn, 1969
â5âConclusion
4 A Transnational Model â Internationalist Discourses and Practices in Tehran: The Case of EkbÄtÄn, 1976
â1âFrom Oil Exporting Economy to the Internationalization of Tehran
â2âIranian Internationalism: In Search of Methodology
â3âIranian Internationalism in Practice: Modernist Architectural Experiments
â4âEkbÄtÄn: A Transnational Architectural Model
â5âNeglecting Internationalism and Continuations of Modernism in Practice
Coda
â1âInternational Modernism and the Reproduction of Archetype â2âRow Courtyard House Model + Grid
â3âLinear Courtyard House Model + Grid
â4âSuper Courtyard House Model + Grid
â5âTehran: Speculative and Fragmented Middle-Class Urban Landscape
â6âEpilogue: ChahÄrbÄgh as the Main Structure of the New Center of Tehran
Timeline
Bibliography
Index
List of Illustrations
Persian Transcription
Introduction
â1âMiddle-Class Housing Development in Tehran and the Question of Non-Western Modernity
â2âIranâs Position Amidst Non-Western Architectural Modernism
â3âModernism as Institutionalism
â4âFrom Ideal Modernism to Popular Modernism
â5âModernism as a Taste
â6âModernism as a Transnational Model
â7âTehran Urban Modernization: Articulation of the Walled Gardens and Urban Planning Laws
â8âModern Middle-Class Quarters: A Reproduction of Archetype
1 The Unveiled House â The Institutionalization of Modern Middle-Class Neighborhoods in 1940s Tehran: ChahÄrsad DastgÄh, 1946
â1âGrowth of the Middle Class, the Question of Modern Collective Housing, and the Birth of Tehranâs First Modern Neighborhood
â2âModern District: The Courtyard House New Urban Block Configuration â ChahÄrsad DastgÄh
â3âA Modern House by Law: Expansion of Modernity
â4âConclusion
2 Architects and Architecture without Architects: NÄrmak, 1952
â1âIntroduction
â2âReformers
â3âA Modernist Vision for a Middle-Class Neighborhood â NÄrmak
â4âA Yard: Contextualization of the Modern
â5âBuilders: Negotiating the Modern
â6âConclusion
3 Modern Taste â Iranian Domestic Cultural Transformation and the Excellence of the Car-Urban Landscape: Kuy-e Farah, 1961 and Kuy-e ChahÄrom-e ÄbÄn, 1969
â1âIntroduction
â2âThe Modern Iranian House as Embodiment of Global Taste
â3âA Car-Garden Neighborhood: Transformation of an Iranian Courtyard House: The Case of Kuy-e Farah, 1961
â4âThe Automobile Society and the Appearance of the Apartment Building: The Case of Kuy-e ChahÄrom-e ÄbÄn, 1969
â5âConclusion
4 A Transnational Model â Internationalist Discourses and Practices in Tehran: The Case of EkbÄtÄn, 1976
â1âFrom Oil Exporting Economy to the Internationalization of Tehran
â2âIranian Internationalism: In Search of Methodology
â3âIranian Internationalism in Practice: Modernist Architectural Experiments
â4âEkbÄtÄn: A Transnational Architectural Model
â5âNeglecting Internationalism and Continuations of Modernism in Practice
Coda
â1âInternational Modernism and the Reproduction of Archetype â2âRow Courtyard House Model + Grid
â3âLinear Courtyard House Model + Grid
â4âSuper Courtyard House Model + Grid
â5âTehran: Speculative and Fragmented Middle-Class Urban Landscape
â6âEpilogue: ChahÄrbÄgh as the Main Structure of the New Center of Tehran
Timeline
Bibliography
Index
Everybody interested in the history and theory of non-west modern urbanism during the Cold War and indeed anybody concerned with the history of modern urbanism/architecture in Iran.