Browsing Engineering (Faculty of) by Subject "Iran"

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Architectural Interpretation of Kiarostami’s Poetic Cinema

Shafiee, Bahman (University of Waterloo, 2020-01-22)

The Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami is famous for mobilizing natural landscapes and Iranian vernacular architecture as the primary set for his films. These spaces function not only as visual motifs, but also as elements ...
Desire of Union

Mozafari, Ardavan (University of Waterloo, 2010-05-20)

In our modern world, a signifi cant number of traditional values have been dramatically manipulated, taking on new meanings and definitions quite diff erent from their original or natural signifi cance. Moreover, these ...
The Story of the Hands: On Earth and Community

Taghipoor, Alireza (University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)

The phenomenon that the universalization of the urban (and rural) form has disadvantaged many Iranian cities and villages of a sense of place, culture, and identity, is not a very recent one. Neither is it a novel understanding ...