issue 2 publication date 2012-12

• Properties of natural organisms and its use in technological architecture
• Natural environment and its vital impact on patient women hospitalized in the maternity wards of Tehran’s general hospitals
• Innovations in the Charbagh Axis of the Safavid Period
• The impact of religious and behavioral patterns on the order of vernacular settlements:A comparative case study
• A historical experience of local seismic proof shelters in Quchan-northeast of Iran
• Evaluation of the effect of building orientation on achieved solar radiation - a NE-SW orientated case of urban residence in sem-iarid climate
• Natural environment of Zayande-Rood and the Safavid development of Isfahan