Friday, July 4, 2008 
Iranian eco-architect Nader Khalili died early last month (here is the LA Times obit). He was an advocate of “earth architecture,” inventing techniques for building really cool dome-shaped structures. Khalili founded an institute called Cal-Earth to teach others how to build these houses, which got the stamp of approval from the UN, where he was […]
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Merry Christmas. Here’s a last-minute gift idea for people celebrating today: the 2008 Children of Persia calendar. The $20 donation goes to that organization’s many educational and relief efforts
in Iran and among global Iranians. And the calendar’s theme for ‘08 is Persian architecture, which makes this gift useful, beautiful, and altruistic. It doesn’t get much […]
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The mysterious lady in the bathtub above is Asa Soltan Rahmati, Iranian artist and co-owner, with her filmmaker husband Shaheen Cheyene, of an amazing house in Venice, CA that’s the subject of a recent home renovation story in the LA Times. Soltan Rahmati’s work deals a lot with identity and nostalgia, and I’ve been following […]
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On a trip to MoMA this weekend I discovered that renowned Iranian architect Farshid Moussavi and her architect husband Alejandro Zaera-Polo’s prints of digital CAD files of the Yokohama International Port Terminal (click for the photo) are MoMA’s first acquisition of that medium for the new, ongoing collection there called Digitally Mastered. Unfortunately flash wasn’t […]
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