This lecture introduces the geography of Persian water architecture and its relations to other parts of the ancient world. It focuses on the water architecture legacies inherited from Persia, from technological aspects of water control and management in ancient times to their diffusion and exchange routes with neighouring and more remote civilisations, from China to Spain, from Egypt to India. Early irrigation models are studied, as well as the way their implementation shaped cities and hydraulic infrastructures. The geographies of water and settlements are reviewed, covering some of the most outstanding conditions and know hows for the development of large irrigation systems and water engineering in Persia, and including its well known underground networks of qanats. The lecture emphasises the role played by water systems in the control of space and time at different scales. It also introduces the various forms and patterns of water architecture developed in Iranian cities over the centuries.
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