TY - JOUR
T1 - In search of continuity with the past
T2 - Houshang Seyhoun’s Ferdowsi mausoleum complex as cultural landscape
AU - Mozaffari, Ali
AU - Westbrook, Nigel
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Architecture is the meeting point of development, culture, and the environment. Development usually challenges traditions and leads to environmental and cultural concerns. In the 1970s public architecture in Iran played a significant role in re-imagining a national cultural landscape. The paper examines the Beaux Arts-trained architect Houshang Seyhoun’s (1964–68) design for the reconstructed mausoleum of Ferdowsi, the Iranian national poet. The design consisted of an interpretative gallery, tea-house, and performance space as well as an adjacent restaurant. This was one of the many public projects that went through multiple stages of life from the time of its conception through to the Islamic Revolution, which substantially transformed its social and political context leading to the present. The paper attempts to show the divergent political forces that operate on perceptions of a cultural landscape at a national scale.
AB - Architecture is the meeting point of development, culture, and the environment. Development usually challenges traditions and leads to environmental and cultural concerns. In the 1970s public architecture in Iran played a significant role in re-imagining a national cultural landscape. The paper examines the Beaux Arts-trained architect Houshang Seyhoun’s (1964–68) design for the reconstructed mausoleum of Ferdowsi, the Iranian national poet. The design consisted of an interpretative gallery, tea-house, and performance space as well as an adjacent restaurant. This was one of the many public projects that went through multiple stages of life from the time of its conception through to the Islamic Revolution, which substantially transformed its social and political context leading to the present. The paper attempts to show the divergent political forces that operate on perceptions of a cultural landscape at a national scale.
KW - cultural landscape
KW - Ferdowsi
KW - Iranian architecture
KW - Seyhoun
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85128938382&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/00207233.2022.2058218
DO - 10.1080/00207233.2022.2058218
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85128938382
SN - 0020-7233
VL - 79
SP - 298
EP - 319
JO - International Journal of Environmental Studies
JF - International Journal of Environmental Studies
IS - 2
ER -