Mohsen ForoughiIranian Modernism and the Architect as Government Agent\nAuthor(s): Peyman Akhgar\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts\nISBN-13: 9781350411425, 978-1350411425\nSynopsis\nMohsen Foroughi [tel] was one of the most important and influential Iranian architects of the modern era. Standing at the intersection between modernism, tradition, and the Beaux-Arts, Foroughis work traces the major cultural developments of twentieth-century Iran and the Middle East from the development of a new Iranian nationalism in the 1930s, to the emergence of a high modernist aesthetic of the mid-twentieth century, and finally to a more locally-expressive and formalist approach in the 1960s and 70s. \n\nPublished as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, which brings to light the work of significant yet overlooked modernist architects, this book reveals Foroughis vital roles as a designer, educator, and p.