Dagh-Baghi is a disregarded garden located in Khoy, a city in the northwest of Iran. Because of its location along with good weather, Khoy has always had great potential to host many gardens. This garden, however, is the only remaining historic garden. The current Dagh Baghi is a meadow in the southern suburb of the city with a few fruit trees. This article studies the spatial structure of the ...

Historic gardens of Shiraz were considered among key elements of the city up to the Pahlavi and contemporary era. It seems that the formation of the historic core of the city and its development in different periods involved gardens, both regarding the structural relationship between the two, and also in the use of the garden and its elements in the body of the city. On the other hand, the gard...

This paper presents the results of the Identifying the binder and pigments used in the mural paintings in RahimAbad Historic Garden and Mansion in Birjand. Birjand was one of the most important governmental strategic cities in Qajar era (1789–1925A.D) and an important branch area of ancient Silk Road which connected India to Europe. Though many monuments, especially historical gardens rem...

In the study of those historic monuments that are more or less ruined, the reflections and images in written historical manuscripts are of utmost importance. In these cases, any succinct references can be valuable and informative regarding to the historical status and architectural configuration and formal composition of these monuments. One of the less studied resources for architectural histo...

Regardless of its architectural features, garden is one of the key concepts in Persian art history from the ancient times to the Islamic period with a significant role in different arts, especially in architecture, from conceptual, formal and also contents-based points of view. The main aim of this research is a comprehensive study of garden concept and its significant role in Safavid art an...