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 capital of Yazd Province, Iran. The city is located southeast of Isfahan. At the 2016 census, the population was 1,138,533. Since 2017, the historical city of Yazd is recognized as a Wor ...
, Iran, he studied at what came to be
Tehran University School of Fine Arts.
Works
Pirnia, a student of traditional Iranian architect, was the one of the early architectural historians that developed a modern language to describe
Iranian traditional 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 first one, he proposes five principles and in the latter, he defines six historical styles (''sabk'') for Iranian architecture.
References
External links
Weblog dedicated to the memory of Karim Pir-nia*
Iranian architectural historians
University of Tehran alumni
People from Nain, Iran
1920 births
1997 deaths
20th-century Iranian historians
20th-century Iranian architects
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