The new issue of Compasses is finally published after a very difficult period. I curated a 44 page focus on the multi-storey residential buildings in Iran. Here is an excerpt from the editorial text:
“ In the midst of all this, the [focus] on the Iranian Palazzina is like a fulcrum on which the suggestions just recalled leverage, an in-depth study by Cristiano Luchetti, who deals with a recurring residential typology in the metropolis of Tehran and beyond, detecting the legacies of memory. As well illustrated in the introductory essay by Attilio Petruccioli – a great expert in Islamic architecture, and Iranian in particular – the fil rouge is highlighted even here, holding together the nine projects specially selected for this issue, all characterized by high quality architecture, which recovers elements of the Iranian construction tradition by reinterpreting them in a contemporary key. The result is a panorama of emerging and/or already well-established architects (among the latter Hooba design, Keivani Architects, New Wave architecture, White Cube Atelier, NextOffice, Habibeh Madjdabadi Architecture Studio) that certainly makes us reflect also on the Italian tradition of Palazzina, not always equal in quality if compared with the beautiful projects selected here.” C34 editorial by A. Pane
