To turn Shiraz University into the most modern Iranian university, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi commissioned the University of Pennsylvania in 1960 with the setting up of a structure and teaching concept similar to a US campus. Accordingly, the American architect Minoru Yamasaki was entrusted with the general planning.  … The idea of architecture as a machine was intended as a symbol of the modernization of a society. Excerpt from Manocheher Seyed Mortazavi’s article in: SOS Brutalism: A Global Survey. Catalog DAM + Wüstenrot Foundation, Zurich (Park Books) 2017

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