The authorization of villa Namazi demolition has been declared null.
Five hundred and fifty architects, urban designers, and journalists have formed a campaign to demonstrate their dissatisfaction.
_Winter 2016_
Five hundred and fifty architects, urban designers and journalists have formed a campaign to demonstrate their dissatisfaction, writing letters to the Judiciary, administrative court of justice, Lord chief justice and also the Mayor of Tehran.
Babak shokoufi, an Iranian architect and designer of Azadi cinema complex, and Mehrdad zavareh Mohammadi, an architectural activist believe: this campaign mainly insists on cancelling the authorization of Article 5 Commission And wants this building to be registered as Iranian cultural heritage once again.
In this regard, Ali kermanian, an Iranian activist in architectural-related fields has suggested a meeting on necessity of preservation of this villa and other homogenous ones.
Amirabbas Aboutalebi, architect and head editor of Villa magazine believes that this issue can be an opening to a better sympathy between architectural society and may lead to formation of an independent and goal-oriented trade association.
Leyla araghian, as an architect who had received the Aga Khan award recently, offers a poll to ask those people who may use the substitute building, if this change may have any effect on the context.
