Regionalism is an analytical and critical perspective which focuses on preserving special features of place and attempts to fill the vacuum in architecture. Globalization is a complex multi-stage process that causes increasing complexity of time and place, greater awareness across the global and acceleration of cross cultural interactions. Therefore, the present paper attempts to analyze global...

the endurance of any type of architecture is contingent upon the study of the characteristics that led to its formation. two general approaches have been adopted to study and analyze the iranian architecture. a number of scholars have taken a historical approach, while others have merely considered a genre- based approach. making use of many historical studies, these scholars have attempted to ...

iranian traditional cities were created with a system based on experiments and gradual establishment of society through time. qajar era is especially important in iranian art history. until mid qajar era, iranian cities’s architecture mainly took benefit of its common traditional architecture that is already seen in most desert-surrounding cities. till this era, there was not any connection bet...

light is one of the many wonders in the architecture iranian houses. it is a major tool for space creation anddesign. an important consideration in the iranian architecture, which takes a functional and conceptual approach to the extensive subject of light, has been that light should create a beautiful and spiritual space in addition to being functional. the light used in a house should be plea...

The Jameh Mosque of Varamin is one the few structures manifesting a transformation from Iranian architecture toward Iranian-Islamic architecture. study presented here tries to deal with some geometric principles implemented by architects express concept unity. research decodes sacred architectural elements and illustrates ideas used design different aspects. In first step, such as dynamic recta...

The use of demands such as "Iranian-Islamic architecture" or "preservation of Iranian-Islamic identities" appeared in different dimensions and have gradually caused the shape of contemporary Iranian architecture. Many criticisms have been made from various perspectives on the architectural conditions, despite, all of them are worthy of attention, it seems that a required issue has been neglecte...