Title: Is the Tehran Bazaar dead?
Description: "Farzaneh Haghighi's meticulously assembled book brings together the philosophy of the event (principally from Michel Foucault, but interpreted and tested in conjunction with the work of several other contemporary Continental philosophers) and the Tehran Bazaar. Taken together, these two ingredients are put to work to develop a lengthy meditation on the event. Informed as much by the spirit of Foucault as by the detail of his writings, this text operates across a wide range of scales and places, official and unofficial histories, to present the reader with a rich and sophisticated portrait of the Bazaar, as well as with an expanded collection of narratives-archaeologies, even-that can resonate with and challenge broader architectural thinking. Haghighi advocates persuasively for the promise that event philosophy can hold for architectural understanding, explicating the former and extending the latter to account more fully for the relations between the built environment, human action and experience. In this, the resonance of Haghighi's book far exceeds its detailed engagement with the Bazaar, offering the reader a stimulus that can reach around the globe and across history, to anywhere that things happen."Dr Stephen WalkerHead of Architecture, University of Manchester, UK.
Subjects: Architecture, Philosophy, Bazaars (Markets), History, Politics and government
Places: Iran, Tehran
People: Michel Foucault (1926-1984)
Time periods: 20th century