Noureddin Kianouri

Noureddin Kianouri or Nur al-Din Kianuri (Persian: نورالدین کیانوری‎; 1915–1999) was an Iranian architect, urban planner, and communist political leader. Educated in Germany, after his first return to Iran he was an influential member of the Central Committee for the communist Tudeh Party, and was regarded as one of the "Iranian avant-garde architects of the 1940s". Following the 1953 Iranian coup d'état the party was banned and Kianouri was imprisoned. He fled, and lived in Italy and later East Germany; under the pseudonym "Dr. Silvio Macetti" he was an influential architect and theorist of socialist architecture and city planning.

Noureddin Kianouri

Noureddin Kianouri or Nur al-Din Kianuri (Persian: نورالدین کیانوری‎; 1915–1999) was an Iranian architect, urban planner, and communist political leader. Educated in Germany, after his first return to Iran he was an influential member of the Central Committee for the communist Tudeh Party, and was regarded as one of the "Iranian avant-garde architects of the 1940s". Following the 1953 Iranian coup d'état the party was banned and Kianouri was imprisoned. He fled, and lived in Italy and later East Germany; under the pseudonym "Dr. Silvio Macetti" he was an influential architect and theorist of socialist architecture and city planning.