Among the Safavid and especially Qajar periods works, many Orsies have remained in the Sanandaj houses. Orsi has had an especial degree, although these houses have many decorations. This study is to answer some questions and to prove some drawn hypothesis on its history, making and characteristic of the Orsi ـ making in Sanandaj. In this study it has been applies to look at the importance and p...

Landscape and building-painting as a genre is one of the many features of Iranian painting in the last years of the Qajar and the first years of the Pahlavi era. This paper explains the relation between these painting as the particular, following the domination of the discourse of nationalism as the general. To reason this idea and to explain the relationship between these two, Georg Lukács the...

Increasing the population of cities and the growth and development of urban planning on the one hand and climate change on the other hand has affected the thermal balance of cities and has created thermal islands, so attention to the impact of design on the thermal comfort of urban spaces has become important. The study of the thermal performance of yards as common spaces between urban scale an...

Handwoven carpets as one of the main export items of Iran during the Qajar period underwent significant integration with the world economy after a series of foreign companies were established. As a result, the design, pattern, dyeing, and even weaving techniques of carpets changed significantly. There have not been enough considerations of all of these effects so far. We investigate the effects...

For a long time, Naraq plain has been accommodating different types of habitation, such as residential fields to mastery houses.  Based on some evidences, Naraq’s primary core is located in the western half of the town and in the Lower (Paien) neighborhood. In the further development of the town, the Upper (Bala) and Bazaar neighborhoods are formed in the east and north of the older neighborhoo...

The shrine of Imamzade Hamze is part of the Abd Al-Azim complex in the Town of Rey and has a collection of decorations such as the inscriptions. In addition to their religious values, they are considered as important sources for studying the process of changes in the Nastaliq script because of the different methods of drawing the words on the paper. This research, using archival-field sources a...