Mohsen Foroughi

Iranian Modernism and the Architect as Government Agent
The first in-depth study in the English language of an Iranian modernist architect, examining the work of Mohsen Foroughi (1907-1983), architect, educator, and politician.

Mohsen Foroughi (1907-1983) was one of the most important and influential Iranian architects of the modern era. Standing at the intersection between modernism, tradition, and the Beaux-Arts, Foroughis work traces the major cultural developments of twentieth-century Iran and the Middle East from the development of a new Iranian nationalism in the 1930s, to the emergence of a high modernist aesthetic of the mid-twentieth century, and finally to a more locally-expressive and formalist approach in the 1960s and 70s.

Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, which brings to light the work of significant yet overlooked modernist architects, this book reveals F