Architectures of transversality : Paul Klee, Louis Kahn and the Persian imagination / Shima Mohajeri ; cover image Paul Klee.

By: Mohajeri, ShimaContributor(s): Klee, Paul [photographer.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Routledge Research in ArchitecturePublisher: Oxon : Routledge, 2020Copyright date: ©2019Edition: First issued in paperback 2020Description: 171 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780367502621 (paperback)Subject(s): Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974 | Klee, Paul, 1879-1940 | Architecture -- Philosophy | Civilization | Architectural history | Architecture -- Aesthetics | Place (Philosophy) in architecture -- IranLOC classification: NA2500 .M597 2020
Contents:
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.
Subject: 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.
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"To my parents"

Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-163) and index (pages 165-171).

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.

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.