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Dariush Shayegan sees nineteenth-century Paris and Safavid Isfahan as two opposing poles: one the emblem of capitalism and modernization, the other the manifestation of the world of dreams. Architecture is the realization of utopia; it is a passage through cities, an entry into heterogeneous worlds and disparate ways of life.
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