Maintaining historical houses, as symbolic identity phenomena, is a must and today it seems as if the owners of such houses are the key figures in maintaining them however, passing the laws and regulations for the maintenance of historical houses seem to have limited their ownership rights. Besides limiting factors in property development, there should be encouraging motives so that the mainten...

Historical cemeteries are a reflection of the culture and religion of the community in which they were formed. With the expansion of cities, most of these cemeteries have been abandoned in remote areas, outside the city or in unsuitable protected areas, and no trace of dynamics and currents of urban space can be seen in them. As these cemeteries are a valuable part of tangible and intangible he...

It has been in recent decade that we saw a considerable growth in number of published historical works about contemporary architecture of Iran and its modernization era. But paying far little attention to paradigmatic frameworks of analyze and incompatible approaches for the rational enquiry along without criticality to paradigmatic criteria, have been brought some scientific conflicts to their...

Over the time, various factors have led to damage the Iranian houses. By examining the surviving documents of Nawab Razavichr('39')s house in Yazd, it is possible to represent a major part of the lost spaces and also to minimize speculation in the restoration of this historic house. The basic belief of this research is that the studies of the oral history of architecture as well as the existing...