Recently, the island of Kish has been very much in focus for resort development ventures. However, architecturally it is becoming increasingly banal and haphazard. Reviewing the first generation of its resort buildings, we witness a fine and coherent architecture, both in terms of the simplicity of form and coherence of materials and details. An architecture that did not overwhelm the natural setting: for example, villas very close to the sea that appear simply as walled enclosures merged with or punctuated by plants and vegetation. Fine details are used in some places, such as in Hotel Shayan, where in the 1960s-70s fashion, fine thick perspex sheets and sections are used in the interior design as in a curved staircase and the ceilings of the lifts, or the use of large painting like surfaces in ceramic mosaics, each in a different design, on the roof sections of Bazaar-e-Faranseh (France), modernist and meant for luxury boutiques originally, but clearly referring to the scale of a traditional bazaar, and now derelict in the middle of a roundabout. And no fussy “landscaping” anywhere. Evidently, the fine simple local architecture of the island had considerable influ- ence on the period.
نسل اولFIRST GENERATION BUILDINGS OF THE PERSIAN
رنگ هاى مختلف سفيد يا نزديك به سفيد اندود سيمانى در همه مواردAll in different shades of white or close to white of cement render
AN EXAMPLE OF THE INDIG- ENOUS ARCHITECTURE ON THE LEFT
HOTEL GOLDIS .پنجره ها بسيار تيره اند و بدون قاب به نظر مى رسندThe glazing is dark and seems frameless.
AN EXAMPLE OF THE INDIGENOUS ARCHI- TECTURE ON THE RIGHT
شباهت هايى به برخى از كارهاى فرنك لويد رايتResemblances to certain Frank Lloyd Wright buildings
نمونه اى از معمارى بومى در تصوير بالاAN EXAMPLE OF THE INDIGENOUS ARCHITECTURE ABOVE
Collaborators: Amin Farahani, Yas Naghib Hashemi Photographs of Kish, Chalooss Hyatt Hotel, and coloured photos of Pirelli and Velasca by Kaveh Mehrabani - kavehmehrabani@yahoo.co.uk
Other sources: 1950s -1960s issues of Zodiac, L’architettura, La Casa, Urbanistica, and Edilizia Moderna, no. 80, Il Grattacielo,1963; G. E. Kidder Smith, Italy Builds, Milan, 1954; Illuminazione d’Oggi, Ulrico Hoepli, Milan, 1956