The purpose of this paper is to explore in detail the concept of architectural analysis. This concept is, in many ways, similar to criticism, which is used sometimes unintentionally and unknowingly instead. Therefore, at first, this paper attempts to identify the terminology regarding the concepts of criticism and analysis. Then, for a more comprehensive view, the criticism framework of Wayne A...

One of the major challenges in the field of architec­ture is the reading and critiquing individual works re­gardless of relevant textual layers that may affect the formation of the work. The main concern of the pre­sent research is the great importance of criticism to the architectural community. Unfortunately however, the lack of systematic readings of architectural works has led to the absenc...

According to what the theorists of intertextuality have focused on, no original text has been existed. The mentioned works like other works have been reflections of the earlier texts. It seems that the application of intertextuality in the field of architecture criticism and applying its potentials in architecture, actually the study of a work in connection with previous ones, can be resulted t...