The "Persian style" (
New Persian:شیوه معماری پارسی) is a style of architecture ("''sabk''") defined by
Mohammad Karim Pirnia
Mohammad Karim Pirnia ( fa, محمد کریم پیرنیا, 16 September 1920 – 31 August 1997) was an Iranian architectural historian and architect.
Early life
Born in Yazd
Yazd ( fa, یزد ), formerly also known as Yezd, is the capit ...
when categorizing the history of
Persian/Iranian architectural development. Although the
Median
In statistics and probability theory, the median is the value separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, a population, or a probability distribution. For a data set, it may be thought of as "the middle" value. The basic fe ...
and
Achaemenid architecture
Achaemenid architecture includes all architectural achievements of the Achaemenid Persians manifesting in construction of spectacular cities used for governance and inhabitation (Persepolis, Susa, Ecbatana), temples made for worship and social ...
fall under this classification, the
pre-Achaemenid architecture is also studied as a sub-class of this category.
This style of architecture flourished from eighth century BCE from the time of the
Median Empire
The Medes (Old Persian: ; Akkadian: , ; Ancient Greek: ; Latin: ) were an ancient Iranian people who spoke the Median language and who inhabited an area known as Media between western and northern Iran. Around the 11th century BC, the ...
, through the
Achaemenid empire
The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire (; peo, 𐎧𐏁𐏂, , ), also called the First Persian Empire, was an ancient Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great in 550 BC. Based in Western Asia, it was contemporarily the largest em ...
, to the arrival of
Alexander III of Macedonia in the third century BCE
[Fallāḥʹfar, Saʻīd (سعید فلاحفر). ''The Dictionary of Iranian Traditional Architectural Terms (Farhang-i vāzhahʹhā-yi miʻmārī-i sunnatī-i Īrān فرهنگ واژههای معماری سنتی ایران)''. Kamyab Publications (انتشارات کامیاب). Kāvushʹpardāz. 2000, 2010. Tehran. US Library of Congress LCCN Permalink: http://lccn.loc.gov/2010342544 pp.44]
Gallery of samples
File:History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria (1903) (14584070300).jpg, Darius' Palace at Susa.
File:Gate of All Nations, Persepolis.jpg, Persepolis
File:Pasargad audience hall.jpg, Pasargad
File:Naqsh-e rostam.JPG, Naqshe Rostam
See also
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Iranian architecture
References
{{Iranian Architecture
Architecture in Iran
Medes
Achaemenid architecture