minarets of mosques (called ‘goldasteh’ in persian) areone of the artifacts of iranian islamic culture. thus repairing andreconstructing the minarets of mosques could have considerableoutcomes for expanding islamic architecture and urban beautification.this research tries to investigate “the social-environmental impact ofrepairing and reconstructing minarets of mosques located in the 9thregions...

attractiveness principal in iranian- islamic architecture and decorating in this issue iranian architecture in the period of islam use different means to show the influential and effective thoughts and interpretations and meanings on the people. one way to identify the means is to research and investigate in the audience’s cognition and understanding particularly architectures and identify the ...

this paper is an attempt to numerical modeling and experimental study of air flow in the yazdi wind-towers. wind towers has been known as one of the most effective climatic elements in iranian traditional architecture. this paper is an attempt to evaluating yazdi wind-tower to discussion the two main questions: 1. what is the role of orientation of wind-towers span, regarding to climate and hei...

beyond its quantity, natural light has unique properties used intelligently in iranian historical architecture in order to transfer spiritual concepts. religious buildings are a good context for re-reading of light concept. due to its valuable place in iranian-islamic belief as well as its direct relationship with wisdom and philosophy, the qualitative presence of light in architecture, aimed a...

We used computational social network mapping in combination with human and automated content analysis to analyze the Iranian blogo-sphere. In contrast to the conventional wisdom that Iranian bloggers are mainly young democrats critical of the regime, we found a wide range of opinions representing religious conservative points of view as well as secular and reform-minded ones, and topics ranging...

The brick ornamentation in Islamic architecture represents the unique skill of the architectural artists and we have seen the perfection of this kind of art during the Seljuk period. There is little information about the process of developing brick art in the architecture of Islamic mosque in Iran, and it has not yet been dealt with as it is worthy of this precious art. Therefore, it is necessa...