Socio-cultural characteristics and climate have always been recognized main factors influencing the physical formation of ritual spaces architecture. The purpose of this study was to evaluate these criteria. This research is a combination of qualitative and quantitative research. The method of the present study is descriptive-survey and to evaluate the importance of each criterion, the opinions...

Architecture requires creativity and its teaching is a creative issue and accordingly, teaching architecture is complex and it cannot be limited in determined and pre-defined frameworks. Despite the educational scholars’ efforts in recent decades, and by some reflections from the architectural works in this period, it is observed that such teaching styles are accompanied with failures ...

In the Islamic architecture of Iran, meaning, aesthetics, shape and structure are four fundamental factors by an appropriate combination of them a traditional architect is able to manifest an image of metaphysical world on material world. A rational and integrated relation of these factors has put the Islamic architecture of Iran in an outstanding position. An important challenge of the modern ...

  Scientific education had been prevalent in Iran from many times ago. Although there are limited information of learning situation in pre-Islamic Iran, after Islam conquest the acquisition of knowledge which had a great correlation with religion flouri shed in Iran. According to the P rophet’s tradition of sermons to his followers, the first place which was used for educational purposes in the...

Ethical teachings are an important part of the teachings of the religion of Islam and Ethical concepts are among the abstract concepts which are defined differently by different people and then Everyone, in their own way, manifest those in architecture and we’ll get different votes. The ongoing research addresses the issue of how a value accepted in Islam (contentment) can be assessed in archi...