Actualizing Poetry in Architecture

January 5, 2014

Iran is undoubtedly one of the capitals of world poetry. Poetry is intertwined with Iranian life: in cinema, in architecture and even in its classical sport, Zur-khaneh. And it seems that Iranian classical architecture is more inspired by the subtleties of a poet’s mind than the prowess of a professional
industrialist. And in modern Iran, if architecture is inspired by poetry it can represent an identity; if, that is, it is poetic.
The purpose of this set of posters is to introduce architectural projects that have been informed and inspired by Persian poetry, as representative of Iranian identity examining the influence of poetry in the creation of a structural design and investigating the possibility of actualizing poetic ideas in
architecture.