The study of the architectural history is a critical attempt to understanding the architecture. Our expectation of studying history of architecture is not just understanding past, but the relationship between past and future. Contemporary architectural scholars should not consider architecture as changing and renewing phenomenon, but pinpoint its nature, beginning and the process of its transfo...

معماری اسامی ایران تداوم طبیعی معماری دوره ساسانی است و شناخت و مطالعه این معماری می تواند راه گشای ما در شناخت معماری دوره اسامی و جنب ههای مختلف آن باشد. متأسفانه علی رغم این مهم معماری این دوره به طور شایسته و جامع شناسایی و مطالعه نشده و ابهامات اساسی در خصوص سیر تحول و تکامل این معماری، تاریخ گذاری بناهای بر جای مانده، گون هشناسی، عناصر و اجزا، تکنیک ها، شیوه های معماری و موارد دیگر وجود د...

The present paper is extracted from a purposeful research aiming at pondering on the recondite meaning of persistence in Iranian architecture during Islamic era and comparing it to the concept of sustainability and contemporary sustainable architecture. It seems that the literature is poor in terms of causes and factors of persistence in Iranian architecture. The limited literature in this area...

Identity crisis in today's architecture has become the concern of the scholars due to its compliance with modernity, inattention to humans' differences and variety in conditions and contexts for creating architecture works as well as its emphasis on the constant preset patterns. In such circumstances, "Iranian-Islamic architecture pattern" has been introduced by several scholars as a solution f...