This is why you always look up.
February 28, 2016 5:54 PM Subscribe
Photographer Mehrdad Rasoulifard is taking viewers on a visual journey through the history of ancient (and modern!) Iranian architecture and design. He captures the structural and artistic intricacies of iran’s most significant places of worship and cultural complexes, including the tessellated and tiled ceilings of historic mosques. [via designboom]
These are amazing, as others have said, and it pains me that USians are taught so little about these cultures and civilizations. I mean, this is humanity, and so many in our political and cultural structures work to de-humanize Persia and the "Middle East".
Argh.
posted by allthinky at 5:03 AM on February 29, 2016 [2 favorites]
Argh.
posted by allthinky at 5:03 AM on February 29, 2016 [2 favorites]
Just to add these wonderful ceilings here are a few more via design bump.
posted by adamvasco at 6:02 AM on February 29, 2016
posted by adamvasco at 6:02 AM on February 29, 2016
Some of those muqarnas are just insanely glorious. Great post.
(Eric Broug is the current gateway author to learning about these constructions, btw.)
posted by scruss at 8:35 AM on February 29, 2016 [2 favorites]
(Eric Broug is the current gateway author to learning about these constructions, btw.)
posted by scruss at 8:35 AM on February 29, 2016 [2 favorites]
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