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...

  Nasser al-Din Shah ordered the Qazvin Hotel (which was used in 1297 AH) to be built by Agha Bagher Arbab. Agha Bagher has become the governor of Qazvin under the name of Sa’d al-Saltane. This Hotel was the first modern hotel in Iran which has been modeled from European hotels and has been built to accommodate the ambassadors and envoys. It was a part of Europe Way Project. Qazvin Hotel is of ...

   Since entering the new century, Iranians architectural field treats the scientific thoughts of “Regionalism” and “Critical Regionalism” more and more rationally and gradually abandons shallow copy of “racialism”. This transfer of historical trend does not originate from the update of academic definition, but from cultural critical renewal of the traditional architectural culture for months...

Introduction: Institutional housing is multi-functional that in order to form it different dimensions must be considered. One of the most important of these dimensions is the social class of its inhabitants. Its social and cultural factors influence the formation of social classes in any society. The modernization of government in the Pahlavi era led to the formation of a new middle class along...