the writing of iranian architectural history has, from its start, followed the principles of western historiography. portions of this history are well expected to be neglected or unattended when writing of it takes place outside its intellectual framework that essentially reflects the iranian throught world. to have a truly iranian architectural historiography, one has to find the theoretical p...

the endurance of any type of architecture is contingent upon the study of the characteristics that led to its formation. two general approaches have been adopted to study and analyze the iranian architecture. a number of scholars have taken a historical approach, while others have merely considered a genre- based approach. making use of many historical studies, these scholars have attempted to ...

iranian traditional cities were created with a system based on experiments and gradual establishment of society through time. qajar era is especially important in iranian art history. until mid qajar era, iranian cities’s architecture mainly took benefit of its common traditional architecture that is already seen in most desert-surrounding cities. till this era, there was not any connection bet...

“Bazaar” is a Persian word from the language of Iranians of 2500 years ago which has entered the languages of other countries. “Bazaar”, the trading or marketing place with the architectural principles and concerns, was formed in Iran because of the long experience of marketing. This has become a valuable inheritance of Islamic ideological civilization and Iranian advanced architecture and a mo...

islamic architecture has been a great influence on different parts of the world, even so there are some similar factors, but the aspect of culture will make the polarization between them. upon the vast spread that muslims had in the 7th century (a.d.) islamic culture and belief moved in different continents from the fareast parts of asia to the west of the mediterranean. at the beginning islam ...