Karim Pirnia
Mohammad Karim Pirnia (16 September 1920 – 31 August 1997) was an Iranian architectural historian and architect.
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- Name
- Mohammad Karim Pirnia
- Born
- 16 September 1920
- Birthplace
- Yazd, Sublime State of Iran
- Died
- 31 August 1997
- Place of death
- Tehran, Iran
- Occupation
- Architect, Historian
- Nationality
- Iran
- Education
- University of Tehran
- Languages
- Persian
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Mohammad Karim Pirnia (16 September 1920 – 31 August 1997) was an Iranian architectural historian and architect.
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• Name — Mohammad Karim Pirnia • Born — 16 September 1920 • Birthplace — Yazd, Sublime State of Iran • Died — 31 August 1997 • Place of death — Tehran, Iran • Resting Place — Rasoulian House, Yazd • Occupation — Architect, Historian
Early life
Early life
Born in Yazd, Iran, he studied at what came to be University of Tehran's School of Fine Arts.
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Pirnia, a student of traditional Iranian architecture, was one of the early architectural historians that developed a modern language to describe traditional Iranian architecture. His most prominent thoughts were later compiled as books and articles; among them “the Principles of Iranian Architecture” and “the Stylistics of Iranian Architecture” were more widely acclaimed. In the former, he proposes five principles and in the latter, he defines six historical styles (sabk) for Iranian architecture.
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- 2.Qayyoomi Bidhendi, Mehrdad. Architecture, Land, and Man Rereading, reviewing and criticism of Pirnia's suggested principles for Iranian architecture. Kimiya-ye-Honar. 3. 72–99. 2015.
- 3.Nadimi, Hamid. Explaining the Concept of Architecture Stylistics by Introducing a New Approach in Iran's Architecture Stylistics. Journal of Architecture in Hot and Dry Climate. 7. 10. 1–29. 2020.
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- Abdollahzadeh, Mohammad Mahdi. A Scholar amid Adversity: Mohammad-Karim Pirnia and the Historiography of Iranian Architecture. Iranian Studies. 1–10. 2026. 10.1017/irn.2026.10167.
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