Figure 1
Examples of students’ projects as published by the Iranian Journal of Art and Architecture.
Source: Honar va Memari 1, no. 2 (1969): 63–64.
Figure 2
Opening of the First Iranian International Congress of Architects in Isfahan, 1970.
Source: The Interaction of Tradition and Technology: Report of the Proceedings of the First International Congress of Architects (Tehran: 25th Shahrivar Press, 1970), 18.
Figure 3
Initial urban proposals for Shahestan Pahlavi by Louis Kahn (left) & Kenzo Tange (right), 1972.
Source: Left-hand photo taken by George Pohl, Louis I. Kahn Collection, University of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; right-hand photo taken by Osamu Murai.
Figure 4
Tehran in 1965.
Source: The Comprehensive Plan of Tehran: The General Ideas and Schemes. Tehran: The Planning and Finance Organisation, 1968, cover page.
Figure 5
Victor Gruen and Abdolaziz Farmanfarmaian’s 1968 urban proposal for Tehran.
Source: Honar va Memari 2, no. 5 (1970): 57–61.
Figure 6
Proposed housing typologies in the Tehran masterplan.
Source: The Comprehensive Plan of Tehran: The General Ideas and Schemes. Tehran: The Planning and Finance Organisation, 1968, 69.
Figure 7
Two typical traditional houses, as depicted and analysed in Gruen’s housing proposal.
Source: The Comprehensive Plan of Tehran: Review and Evaluation. Tehran: The Planning and Finance Organisation, 1970, 3.01–3.06.
Figure 8
Urban layouts of Kuy-e Kan (left) and Kuy-e Nohom-e Aban (right).
Source: The Comprehensive Plan of Tehran: Review and Evaluation. Tehran: The Planning and Finance Organisation, 1970, 3.15–3.16 (top); and National Archive of Iran (bottom).
Figure 9
Location of Ekbatan in West-Tehran, 1972 (top), and the urban layout of Ekbatan (bottom).
Source: Mohamad Sedighi.
Figure 10
Zomorrod (top) and Alborz (bottom) housing projects in Tehran.
Source: Mohamad Sedighi (top), and Minsuk Cho, © designboom (bottom).
Figure 11
a: Typical residential mega-slab in East Ekbatan. b: Typical residential mega-slab in West Ekbatan.
Source: Mohamad Sedighi.
Figure 12
Three typical dwelling units in East Ekbatan.
Source: Mohamad Sedighi.
Figure 13
Initial housing proposal for East Ekbatan by Gruzen and Partners.
Source: Archive of the Ekbatan Redevelopment Company.
Figure 14
Concept diagram (left) and the initial plan of West Ekbatan (middle), plus the revised urban proposal (right).
Source: Kim Swoo Geun Foundation (left & middle). The right-hand photo was taken by Joonwoo Kim.
Figure 15
Four typical dwelling units in West-Ekbatan.
Source: Mohamad Sedighi.
Figure 16
Behjat-Abad residential complex in Tehran, 1967.
Source: Honar va Memari 5, no. 18–19 (1973): 103.
Figure 17
Marcel Breuer’s urban proposal for Stuyvesant site in Lower Manhattan, 1943.
Source: Honar va Memari 4, no. 14 (1972): 18.
Figure 18
East-Ekbatan before (left) and after its completion (right).
Source: Left-hand image is from Honar-e Memari, no. 27 (2011): 117; right-hand picture is taken by Saeed Ghazi.
Figure 19
West-Ekbatan before (left) and after its completion (right).
Source: Archive of the Ekbatan Redevelopment Company.
Figure 20
Shahrak-e Omid (left-up), Shahrak-e Apadana (right-up), Shahrak-e Atisaz (left-bottom), and Shahrak-e Lavizan (right-bottom).
Source: Mohamad Sedighi.