Nader Ardalan

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Nader Ardalan (born 9 March 1939) is an Iranian architect, urban planner and writer. [1] [2] [3]

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Ardalan was born on 9 March, 1939 in Tehran, Iran. He attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, obtaining a bachelor of arts degree in 1961. He earned a master's degree in architecture from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1962. He has served as a Visiting critic in architecture at various institutions of higher education in the world including the University of Tehran, Yale University, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [4]

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References

  1. Khan, Hasan-Uddin (2003). "Ardalan, Nader". The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.t003922.
  2. "معماری نیوز - حقیقت معماری ایران/ نادر اردلان". memarinews.com (in Persian). 2015-02-03. Archived from the original on 2015-02-03. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
  3. "نادر اردلان بهرنگ مجیدی". ویستا (in Persian). 2021-08-31. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
  4. "ARDALAN, NADER". THE 20th CENTURY ARCHITECTURE. 1939-03-09. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  5. Reviews of A Sense of Unity: The Sufi Tradition in Persian Architecture:
    • Banani, Sheila (1974). "Nader Ardalan and Laleh Bakhtiar, The Sense of Unity: The Sufi Tradition in Persian Architecture". International Journal of Middle East Studies. Cambridge University Press (CUP). 5 (3): 362–362. doi:10.1017/s0020743800035005. ISSN   0020-7438.
    • Iranian Studies, Vol. 8, No. 1/2 (Winter - Spring, 1975), pp. 87-104