سبک شناسی معماری ایرانی

This study by the architect and scholar Mohammad Karim Pirnia examines the styles of Iranian architecture across the country's history. Rather than treating buildings only as individual monuments, it organizes its discussion around the recurring forms, structural methods, materials and decorative elements that distinguish one architectural style from another. Readers are shown how mosques, palaces, houses and bazaars developed regional and period characteristics, and how those features can be read to date and identify a building. It is a standard reference for students of Iranian architecture and for anyone wanting a systematic guide to its visual vocabulary.