Me'mar

Periodical

Me'mar

The first issue of Memar (92 pages) was published in Summer 1998. The last (Memar48) has been published in March-April, 2008. Memar includes different sections among them:
* Books and Journals
* View: current problems and issues in architecture.
* Theory: theoretical issues in architecture.
* Introduction: contemporary Iranian architecture.
* Critique: debates on Persian & world architecture today.
* In the world: selections from world architecture.
* From Iran: Historical Persian architecture
* Design and Interior design: projects from Iran and all around the world.
* Construction: achievements in construction technology.
* Competition: Introduction of prizewinning projects from Iran and the rest of the world
Memar is accompanied with a summary in English.

Me'mar 48(March-April, 2008) - Title of Contents

Editorial

Energy in building / Ahmad Azimi Bolourian     

Book

Books and magazines/ Translated by Hanieh Mansouri

Event

Architecture and Civil Engineering Growth Center, and Advanced Architecture Workshops/ Seyyed reza Hashemi        

First seminar on the interaction of cinema and architecture

the fifth annual concrete day Award

On the occasion of the first seminar on the interaction of cinema and architecture/ Bavand Behpoor

Contemporary Iranian Architecture/ Mahyar Hadighi

Critique & THEORY

Architecture and the environment/ Kamran Afshar Naderi

A Critical Introduction of Three sustainable buildings/ Mohammad Mohammadzadeh

Sustainable Building/ Dietrich Schwarz/ Translated by Azita Izadi

Solar Architecture: Research and Development/ Stefan Behling, Andreas Fuchs, Tina Volz/ Translated by Abbas Mokhber

bIG iDEAS FOR A LITTLE pLANET/ Russell Fortmeyer/ Translated by Abbas Mokhber

Eleventh congress on passive- energy building in bregenz

Re-evaluating the Architecture of 18th-19th-Century/ Markus Ritter (Vienna) / Translated in persian by Yasin Doroudian

The Historical Fabric of Sousse/ Zohreh Bozorgnia

A visit to

Morocco/ soheila beski

Project

Two projects of Farhad Ahmadi

To experience 4 kinds of surface outputting/ Saeid Mir Mohammad Sadeghi & Ladan Zarei

Two Sport Complexes, Shora Consulting engineers

In the Solitude of the Rural Space, a Trip to Farashah, Ali Alavi Rad/ Arash Okhovvat

Construction

Technical and Economical Comparisons and selecting Heating and Cooling Systems in Complexes and Towns/ Heshmatollah Monsef

Geodesic Domes/ Translated by Vida Makani

From Iran

Climatic Spaces in the Architecture of Iran/ Faramarz Parsi

The Old Bazaar of Kashan/ Babak zirak

Design

Designing for Need/ Hassan Mehrabi

In the world

Burj al- taqa, energy tower for the middle east/ Olaf Winkler/ Translated by Abbas Mokhber

Secondary school, austria, Raimund Rainer/ Translated by Azita Izadi

Nursing Home and Center for Senior Citizens, Austria, Dietger Wissounig/ Translated by Azita Izadi

University building, Beijing, Mario Cucinella architects/ Translated by Azita Izadi

Short News/ Translated by Azita Izadi, Babak Peyvaste

Readers contributions

doyenne of the drawing board, Stephen Bayley/ Translated by Babak Peyvaste

peace & integration/ Belinda Bamber/ Translated by Sara Mortazavi