This historical sketch, laid out across two facing pages of Memar 78, threads Iranian and global architectural milestones together with Iranian historical events along a single timeline running from antiquity to the late twentieth century. The diagram serves as a reference map for the issue's special on "The Fate of Tehran's Uniquely Indigenous Modernist Architecture, 1950–1970."
History Line Sketch Carpet — right page (1900–1980): the 20th-century timeline plotting Iranian milestones (Constitutional Revolution 1905, Dar-ol-Fonun, Reza Shah, 1953 coup, 1978 Revolution) alongside global architectural moments (Empire State, Schroeder House, Villa Savoye, Brasilia, Seagram, Pirelli Milan, Nakagin Capsule Tower) and Iran's architectural register (Persepolis, Isfahan Masjid-i-Jami, Mies's Liebknecht/Luxemburg monument).History Line Sketch Carpet — left page (5th c. B.C. – 1889): the long timeline plotting Chogha Zanbil (Dur Untash ~1250 B.C.), the French Revolution (1789), the founding of Qajar Tehran (1795), the Russo-Persian War (1826–28), Dar-ol-Fonun (1851), Nasereddin Shah's visits to Europe (1873/1878), and the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II (Milan, 1867).
