This essay reviews architectural trends in post-revolutionary Iran. The ideological turn of the revolution and its effect on architectural production, the genuine resistance and responses to this and everyday patterns of public architectural production are the subjects of investigation. The paper is an attempt to investigate the collective forces and meanings of an architecture living in revolution. The general hypothesis of the essay is that due to socio-cultural turn of the revolution different modes of historicism (peculiar modes of traditionalism) and culturalism appeared in architectural discourse which created different strategies and tactics in response. Even the public trends of everyday architecture is an unconscious response to that context. This paper, through three key spaces; ideological, intellectual and public, investigates the relationship of architecture and socio-political agendas in contemporary Iran.
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