| Title | Unfolding Azadi Tower |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | Reading Persian Folds Through Deleuze |
| Contributor | Biayna Bogosian (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0053.1.32 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/the-funambulist-papers-vol-1/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| Copyright | Bogosian, Biayna |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2013-10-23 |
| Long abstract | The Azadi Tower (Freedom Tower) is the gateway to Tehran. This 50-m tall tower is located in the heart of the 15,000-sqm Azadi Square (Freedom Square) and has been the center of many cultural and po-litical revolutions since its completion in 1971. The architecture of the tower is influenced by both pre-Islamic Persian architecture of materiality and Islamic architecture of geometry. The significance of the Azadi tower is not only in its sociopolitical presence, but also in the fact that it is one of the world’s first structures that incorporated computation in the design, analysis, and materialization processes. From 1966-1971 the monument was constructed with 25,000 unique white marble pieces. The customized geometry of each marble unit was computed using a structural analysis program and carved using a combination of manual and automated techniques. |
| Page range | pp. 168–172 |
| Print length | 5 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |