Newsletter of the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University
A doctoral student in architecture at Texas A&M was recently honored for developing a multidisciplinary theory of place that draws on recent European and Medieval Persian philosophies of time and space.
Shima Mohajeri received the Brown-Kruse Graduate Scholar Award from Texas A&M's Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research and the Norden Award from the Architectural League of New York for her dissertation research, “Alternative Modernity: Spatial Discourse in Architectural Paper Projects in Iran, 1960-1978.”
Working with faculty mentors from the colleges of architecture and philosophy at Texas A&M, Mohajeri conducted research in architectural archives at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania during summer 2010. With her research results, she further developed her model through exposing relations between the modern West and Iran through cross-cultural ideas in art and architecture.
Mohajeri, who will conclude her study by using her model to analyze modern Iranian architectural projects, believes the unfinished architectural dialogue between Iran and the West may reveal the creative nucleus of two worldviews that creates possibilities for an alternative modernity in architecture.
- Posted: Dec. 6, 2010 -
Contact: Phillip Rollfing, prollfing@archone.tamu.edu or 979.458.0442.
