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Mohsen Foroughi
Mohsen Foroughi (Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...: محسن فروغی, born May 14, 1907), was an Iranian architect, and one of the founders in 1945 of the influential Association of Iranian Architects. References 20th-century Iranian politicians 20th-century Iranian architects {{Iran-architect-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persian Language
Persian (), also known by its endonym and exonym, endonym Farsi (, ', ), is a Western Iranian languages, Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian languages, Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and used officially within Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan in three mutual intelligibility, mutually intelligible standard language, standard varieties, namely Iranian Persian (officially known as ''Persian''), Dari, Dari Persian (officially known as ''Dari'' since 1964) and Tajik language, Tajiki Persian (officially known as ''Tajik'' since 1999).Siddikzoda, S. "Tajik Language: Farsi or not Farsi?" in ''Media Insight Central Asia #27'', August 2002. It is also spoken natively in the Tajik variety by a significant population within Uzbekistan, as well as within other regions with a Persianate society, Persianate history in the cultural sphere of Greater Ira ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Of Iranian Architects
The Association of Iranian Architects was founded in 1945. It was placed in charge of major housing developments in the city of Tehran. The Association put in place the guidelines of the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne, and translated them into "building codes, regulations, and protocols that had the fundamental role in shaping the Middle East's first modern metropolis". Its role was important: Tehran had been in a process of modernization since the 1920s, and after World War II domesticity, and the place of women in society, was front and center. The AIA was responsible for building mass housing projects. It started a journal, ''Architect''. Founding Members ''Architect'', 1946, Issue 1, P. 39 *Noureddin Kianouri *Mohsen Foroughi *Manouchehr Khorsand *Vartan Hovanessian Vartan Hovanessian ( hy, Վարդան Յովհանիսեան; Persian:وارطان هوانسیان , 1896 in Tabriz – 1982 in Tehran) was an Iranian Armenian architect and leading figur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
