Managing Director: M. R. Jodat
Editor-in-chief: Babak M. Nejad
English Translation: Lida Vatan
Before
publishing the quarterly Iranian Architecture, I was the chief editor
of the magazine Architecture and Urban Planning from 1995 to 2000.
During this period , the new editorial board of the magazine, which had
been appointed at the very same time , decided to obtain the permission
to publish another magazine and to possibly substitute it for the
magazine Architecture and Urban Planning. To fulfil this, I was
introduced to the governmental organization in charge of issuing the
necessary license. The new editorial board, with regards to its aims,
chose the title Iranian Architecture for the new magazine which was to
be published quarterly. Having given its consent to publish the
quarterly under this title, the editorial board, for one reason or
another, abandoned the idea of publishing it altogether; consequently,
I published it independently. My aims in publishing the quarterly
differed from those of the editorial board. My goal, in general, was to
follow and study the worlds architectural events which certainly
included