Pages from issue 2-3 of Memari-e Novin (La Nouvelle Architecture), Esfand 1340 / February-March 1962, themed “Villas” and edited by the architect Vartan Hovanessian. The selected drawings and photographs show how the early-1960s Tehran villa was being presented to a professional readership — through plans, elevations and short location captions — and they are reproduced here verbatim, alongside an advert and the magazine cover, as documents of the period.
Villa in northern Tehran’s Shemiran by Architect X-Y from the 1962 issue of Memari-e Novin or La Nouvelle Architecture.A spread from the same issue, including additional plans, a Meublen Galustian advert, and the cover of Memari-e Novin issue 2-3, themed “Villas”.Drawings foe a villa in north Tehran’s Shemiran by Architect H-V or Vartan Hovanessian, the magazine’s editor - from the 1962 issue of Memari-e Novin or La Nouvelle Architecture. The use of a few small diameter posts together instead of one large one is a feature of this period. Vartan seems to have been particularly keen on stairs.Villa in Doroos by Architects Moghtader and André, from the 1962 issue of Memari-e Novin or La Nouvelle Architecture.Two Villas in north Tehran’s Shemiran by Architects Moghtader Androv from the 1962 issue of Memari-e Novin or La Nouvelle Architecture.
