EditorIal 5
Helen Castle

About the Guest Editors 6
Michael Hensel and Mehran Gharleghi

Spotlight 8

Visual highlights of the issue

Introduction 16

Iran: Past, Present and Future
Michael Hensel and Mehran Gharleghi

Towards an Architectural History of Performance: Auxiliarity, Performance and Provision in Historical Persian Architectures 26
Michael Hensel, Defne Sunguro g lu Hensel, Mehran Gharleghi and Salmaan Craig

Persian Gardens and Landscapes 38
Nasrine Faghih and Amin Sadeghy

World of Similitude: The Metamorphosis of Iranian Architecture 52
Farshad Farahi

Subterreanean Landscape: The Far-Reaching Influence of the Underground Qanat Network in Ancient and Present-Day Iran 62
Reza Daneshmir and Catherine Spiridonoff

Contemporary Architecture of Iran 70
Darab Diba

Assimilating the Authentic with the Contemporary: The Work of Hadi Mirmiran 1945-2006 80
Saman Sayar

Practices @ Home: Assimilating the Past and the Present for a Visionary Architecture 88
Mehran Gharleghi

Practices Abroad: Today's Diaspora Tomorrow's Architecture 104
Michael Hensel

Latent Futures of Iranian Architecture 120
Michael Hensel

Counterpoint 128

Iran in the Regional Context
Farrokh Derakhshani

Contributors 135