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FLW Foundation in Karaj

Commissioned by Princess Shams Pahlavi, the Morvarid Palace was a private residence for her and her husband Mehrdad Pahlbod, then Minister of Art & Culture, in Mehrshahr, Karaj. Currently it is a Basiji recreational base or dormitory or something like this.

Architecture, Military.
Adolf Hitler, Chalous, Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Karaj Dam, Mazandaran, Mehrdad Pahlbod, Morvarid Palace, Pearl Palace, Roman Catholicism, Shahdokht Shams ul-Mulk Pahlavi, Shams Pahlavi, Villa Mehrafarin

Iran Pavilion—Expo 67

Architecture.
Bacardi Building, Caviar, Ile-St-Helene, Montreal, Vodka

Nader Khalili, 1936-2008

Nader Khalili was a California based humanitarian architect best known for his development of the Geltaftan Earth-and-Fire System known as Ceramic Houses and the Earthbag Construction technique called Super Adobe. In 1991 he founded the California Institute of Earth Art and Architecture (Cal-Earth) and was a U.N. consultant for Earth Architecture. Khalili published numerous books [...]

Architecture, People.
SCI-Arc