School of Architecture

The book "Iranian Landscape" is written by Dr.  Seyed Amir Mansouri, Associate Professor of the Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Tehran, and was published in 2024 by the Nazar Institute of Art, Architecture and Urban Planning.
The book is a collection of notes that, under the title of the editor's note in the Manzar magazine, briefly describes the landscape elements of Iran in 30 different topics. The notes are the author's reflections on the land of Iran, which he has narrated its prominent points, and the book has interpreted each topic in detail. In the author's view, Iranianness is an abstract concept derived from the reading and understanding of territorial symbols and manifestations, and in other words, its landscape elements. One of the most important common threads of Iranians throughout history, regardless of language, is the shared memory of the landscape of their land. Territorial symbols are a reading that he has made of selected elements of nature and the environment. These landscapes, scenes and views that he has created are meaningful to its inhabitants. Arranging these scenes in their urban and rural living environments, and even among the roads and pristine nature, is a way of giving meaning to the space and creating a single identity and identity for each context. In this way, by reading the symbols and manifestations that are the traces of his life on the face of nature, the Iranian person makes his environment familiar and suitable for his mental life. The contents of the book read Iranian landscapes in a different style, and at the end of studying the 30 topics examined, a deep understanding of territorial manifestations in the Iranian landscape will be obtained.