{"product_id":"mohsen-foroughi","title":"Mohsen Foroughi","description":"\u003cp\u003eMohsen Foroughi (1907-1983) was one of the most important and influential Iranian architects of the modern era. Standing at the intersection between modernism, tradition, and the Beaux-Arts, Foroughi’s work traces the major cultural developments of twentieth-century Iran and the Middle East – from the development of a new Iranian nationalism in the 1930s, to the emergence of a high modernist aesthetic of the mid-twentieth century, and finally to a more locally-expressive and formalist approach in the 1960s and 70s. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished as part of the \u003ci\u003eBloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture \u003c\/i\u003eseries, which brings to light the work of significant yet overlooked modernist architects, this book reveals Foroughi’s vital roles as a designer, educator, and politician in Iran’s program of modernisation, and explores a selection of case-study buildings including Foroughi’s branches for the Iranian National Bank, the \u003ci\u003eSa’di\u003c\/i\u003e Mausoleum, his Senate House of Iran, and the \u003ci\u003eMaison de l’Iran\u003c\/i\u003e in Paris.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the first English-language study of the career of an Iranian modernist architect, offering new and unique insights into the expansion of twentieth-century modern architecture into non-Euro-American global contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57257037300056,"sku":"9781350411425","price":92.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781350411425_832793ae-8ec0-4a7b-b82a-ba9d886bb1f2.jpg?v=1781163055","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/mohsen-foroughi","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}