School of Architecture

Many critics of the field of architecture consider the period from the 1960s to before the Islamic Revolution as the golden age of contemporary Iranian architecture. The generation of architects present during this period is considered the second group of pioneers of contemporary architecture, who try to present a personal definition of modern architecture that examines the relationship between contemporary architecture and historical Iranian architecture in more depth. This issue finds objective expression in the minds and practices of artists in fine art before architecture, so that in the late 1950s, with the formation of the Saqakhaneh movement, one of the few movements in the history of contemporary Iranian visual arts was formed that attempted to respond to one of the main concerns of Iranian modern art to create and establish a "national" or "Iranian" school of art.

Keywords: Iranian Modernist Architecture, National Identity, Iranian Modernist Visual Arts, Pahlavi II