Taher Pourheidari

From Tehran’s landscape, alongside the chaos and routinized dailiness of the city, there are still some parts which disturb the regularity of jerry builders’ attitudes.

Old buildings which are either abandoned or retrievably survived; they mostly are special architecture from Pahlavi era including yards full of old trees which are still practical.

Regardless to their formal attractions and noticeable contrast in comparison with surrounded buildings, there is also another main reason for its aesthetic and that is the representative “present time”.

This present time defines the architectures’ past and ours as well and on the other hand it’s more useful and well-presented than a photo shot. And just by considering the value of the present time, the past’s beauty reveals itself. Therefore, the one and only truthfully contemporary human is the one who can notice the dark and unrevealed parts of any past.

As much as I consider the bright sides, I reconsider the dark sides of the houses’ past as well, in result me myself name this simultaneously approach “the full present”.

In this project I aimed to draw this full present.