Towards an Architectural History of Performance: Auxiliarity, Performance and Provision in Historical Persian Architectures
Despite its extensive empire, Persia historically presented a challenging environment for the building of structures and infrastructure. The mountainous landscape of the Iranian plateaus has an arid or semi‐arid climate with distinct seasonal variations and temperatures that fluctuated throughout th...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Architectural design 2012-05, Vol.82 (3), p.26-37 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Despite its extensive empire, Persia historically presented a challenging environment for the building of structures and infrastructure. The mountainous landscape of the Iranian plateaus has an arid or semi‐arid climate with distinct seasonal variations and temperatures that fluctuated throughout the day. Despite this, water management and soil‐fertilisation strategies and passive environmental modulation in architecture were all highly developed previous to the 19th century so as to be finely attuned to the local context, while also responding to the greater demands of a centralised empire. Here Michael Hensel, Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel, Mehran Gharleghi and Salmaan Craig discuss and illustrate their detailed findings of the performance of historic structures. These include qanats (water canals), water cisterns, ice houses and pigeon houses as well as the seminal Khaju Bridge in Isfahan and the Boroujerdi's House in Kashan. |
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ISSN: | 0003-8504 1554-2769 |
DOI: | 10.1002/ad.1402 |