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📸: Royal Academy of Arts, London. By exposing these ideological layers, the paper challenges the ‘Persian garden’ concept and advocates for a fresh approach to the history of gardens in the region.

📸: author.The ideological roots of the climatic regime that are attributed to the ‘Persian garden’ reveal how these ideologies, with this conceptualization, have steered the trajectory of scholarship on the history of gardens in the Iranian plateau

📸:  Smithsonian Digital Archive.The paper first explores the discourse around this concept, particularly in its association with climate, and assesses the general climatic regime underpinning this discourse, questioning its accountability

📸: author.This conceptualization is deeply entangled with colonialist, imperialist, and nationalist ideologies and has used climatic justifications to perpetuate itself. J

📸: Smithsonian Digital Archive.Over the past century, the ‘Persian garden’ has been solidified as a distinct concept, representing an earthly paradise that is in stark contrast to its surrounding ‘desert’.

📸: author .This paper reevaluates one such conceptualization, the ‘Persian garden’, to elucidate how these terms may be ideologically loaded and how these implications intertwine with other layers to justify themselves.

Published in Architectural Histories: A Climatic Re-reading of the ‘Persian Garden by Ehssan Hanif.⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️.📸: Brill Publishing House

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A more balanced view of the ties between the Middle Ages and the post-medieval period highlights the modernity of responses to the past and draws attention to architecture btw these responses and imperialism in cases other than the Italian one.📸: author

The essay proposes that imperialism’s exchanges with medievalism can be excavated at the intersection between architecture and the reception, revision, and resurgence of the medieval past.📸: author

Yet the Middle Ages traverse non-medieval spatialities and temporalities, contributing to phenomena like colonialism.📸: author

The reverberations of the medieval in post-medieval architecture are often seen as inconveniences or of peripheral interest in evolutionist, if not modernist, versions of architectural history. 📸: author

Published in AH: FN on The Colonial Middle Ages: Prolegomena to Architecture between Medievalism and Italian Imperialism by Tommaso Zerbi .⬇️⬇️⬇️ .Imperialism matters, particularly in architectural history. But does medievalism also matter in our field?

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This research article is part of a Special Collection of “Geopolitics, Aesthetics and Postmodern Architecture” by Léa-Catherine Szacka and Maros Krivy. The special collection can be found:

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