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Architectures of transversality : Paul Klee, Louis Kahn and the Persian imagination
- Title
- Architectures of transversality : Paul Klee, Louis Kahn and the Persian imagination / Shima Mohajeri.
- Author
- Mohajeri, Shima
- Publication
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2019.
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- Description
- xx, 171 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Routledge research in architecture
- Uniform Title
- Routledge research in architecture
- Subjects
- Iran
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- 1900-1999
- Civilization
- Architecture > Philosophy
- Iran > Civilization > 20th century
- Place (Philosophy) in architecture > Iran
- Place (Philosophy) > Social aspects > Iran
- Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974 > Criticism and interpretation
- Klee, Paul, 1879-1940 > Criticism and interpretation
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral--Texas A & M University, 2013) under the title: On the dialectic of silence : Klee, Kahn, and the space of transversal modernity in Iran.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Transversal space of modernity -- Persian miniature and the aesthetics of change -- Klee's miniature series, 1916-1918 -- The dialectics of power and culture in Iran, 1963-1979 -- Louis Kahn's silent space of critique in Tehran, 1973-74.
- ISBN
- 9781138721876
- 1138721875
- 9781315193977 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- 9781351759748 (ePub ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- 9781351759755 (PDF ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- 9781351759731 (Mobipocket ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018010492
- 40028557369
- OCLC
- on1029070474
- SCSB-9282023
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library