Architectures of Transversality Paul Klee, Louis Kahn and the Persian Imagination Routledge Research in Architecture Series
Auteur : Mohajeri Shima
Architectures of Transversality investigates the relationship between modernity, space, power, and culture in Iran. Focusing on Paul Klee?s Persian-inspired miniature series and Louis Kahn?s unbuilt blueprint for a democratic public space in Tehran, it traces the architectonics of the present as a way of moving beyond universalist and nationalist accounts of modernism. Transversality is a form of spatial production and practice that addresses the three important questions of the self, objects, and power. Using Deleuzian and Heideggerian theory, the book introduces the practices of Klee and Kahn as transversal spatial responses to the dialectical tension between existential and political territories and, in doing so, situates the history of the silent, unrepresented and the unbuilt ? constructed from the works of Klee and Kahn ? as a possible solution to the crisis of modernity and identity-based politics in Iran.
Prelude. 1. Transversal Space of Modernity 2.Spaces of objectivity in Persian miniatures 3. Klee's Miniature Series, 1916-1918 4. Dialetics of Power and Culture in Iran 5. Kahn's Silent Space of Critique in Tehran, 1973-1974 Epilogue. Bibliography. Index
Shima Mohajeri is a Lecturer of Architectural History at the University of Washington, USA.
Date de parution : 03-2020
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 07-2018
15.6x23.4 cm
Thème d’Architectures of Transversality :
Mots-clés :
Grand Bazaar; Transversality; National Library; Paul Klee; Saint Peter’s Square; Louis Kahn; Kenzo Tange; Tehran; Transversal Picture; Heidegger; Persian Miniatures; Deleuze; Kahn Collection; Spatial Theory; Shahestan Pahlavi; Iran; Persian Miniature Paintings; Kaiser Friedrich Museum; Pennsylvania Historical; Nader Ardalan; Kahn’s Design; Munich Exhibition; Museum Commission; Arata Isozaki; White Revolution; Klee’s Work; Klee’s Paintings; Islamic Art; Nightingale Series; Timurid Era; Hugo Von Tschudi