Practices @ Home: Assimilating the Past and the Present for a Visionary Architecture

Guest‐Editor Mehran Gharleghi describes the work of four Iranian practices ‐ Fluid Motion Architects (FMA), Pouya Khazaeli Parsa, Arsh Design Studio and Kourosh Rafiey/Asar Consultant Engineers' Co) ‐ that are worthy of international attention. Over the last decade, all have distinguished themselves by developing a body of work ‘that is not only globally informed but also conscious and proud of its local, regional and national identity’.