For a few decades has proposed sustainable developing in different sciences and professions including architecture and urbanization and its origins  is in environmental crises  and also excessive use of fossilized energies in the world. problems such as global warming, increasingly developing of green house gases in atmosphere that its origin  is  in global warming , air and soil  pollution, an...

Since the process of modernism in Iranian architecture and after formation of the post-modernist thought, tendency to apply some of the principles, concepts and elements of traditional architecture became widespread. Traditionalism approach in the course of different eras of Iranian Architecture, before and after revolution in Iran; has appeared in different ways and intentions. The thought fie...

The Biosphere Reserve (BR) model of UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme reflects a shift towards more accountable conservation. Biosphere Reserves attempt to reconcile environmental protection with sustainable development; they explicitly acknowledge humans, and human interests in the conservation landscape while still maintaining the ecological values of existing protected areas. Conceptu...

Sustainable design is the concept that recognizes human civilization as an integral part of the natural world, and that nature must be preserved if the human community itself is to survive. Cultural dimensions of design are the tangible and intangible aspects of cultural systems that are valued by or representative of, a given culture and reflected in the built environment [12]. There was no ex...

John Nastasi is a Licensed Architect and Founding Director of the Graduate Program in Product-architecture and Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. An alumnus of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and recipient of Harvard’s prestigious Rice Prize for the Integration of Architecture and Engineering, Nastasi is currently directing interdisciplinary research in sustainable engineering ...

Architecture and urban space play an important role among the sociological and psychological factors that influence humans and their well-being. Sociology and psychology analyse the role of architecture in the conscious shaping of urban space in the 21 century. This issue is very important from the point of view of sustainable development, as well as education of civil engineering graduates and...

Requirements need be established for architecting systems of systems (SoS) for sustainable delivery of value to users. This paper sketches a general methodology to establish such requirements. The methodology involves a system architecture paradigm, a sustainability analysis, a similarity principle, and a derivation of design requirements. The methodology is described in concrete terms as it is...

Businesses may be described as holistic systems of interacting processes. Beer’s Viable System Model is a complete formulation of such a set of processes necessary for a business to be sustainable in a volatile, changing environment. The Viable System Model can be used to describe a process architecture for the IT capabilities required to support a sustainable business. This paper explores this...