Persian architecture

Persian architecture

نویسنده : Arthur Upham Pope
ناشر: amazon
زبان کتاب: انگلیسی
تعداد صفحه: 120
اندازه کتاب: رقعی - سال انتشار: 1976 - دوره چاپ : 1 

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مصور - رنگی - تمام گلاسه

حاوی تصاویر رنگی از آثار و اماکن دیدنی ایران

Architecture in Greater Iran has a continuous history from at least 5000BCE to the present, with characteristic examples distributed over a vast area from Syria to North India and the borders of China, from the Caucasus to Zanzibar. Persian buildings vary from peasant huts to tea houses, and garden pavilions to "some of the most majestic structures the world has ever seen.

Iranian architecture displays great variety, both structural and aesthetic, developing gradually and coherently out of prior traditions and experience. Without sudden innovations, and despite the repeated trauma of invasions and cultural shocks, it has achieved an individuality distinct from that of other Muslim countries. Its paramount virtues are several: a marked feeling for form and scale; structural inventiveness, especially in vault and dome construction; a genius for decoration with a freedom and success not rivaled in any other architecture