Shima Shasti; M. Falamaki; M. Javeheri Pour
Abstract
The confusion in the physical form of the architecture of Tehran today is an obvious fact, even for inexpert spectators. But some fundamental questions arise here: which of the academic disciplines should explain this confusion? Is it the duty of architecture and urbanism, or that of sociology and cultural ...
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The confusion in the physical form of the architecture of Tehran today is an obvious fact, even for inexpert spectators. But some fundamental questions arise here: which of the academic disciplines should explain this confusion? Is it the duty of architecture and urbanism, or that of sociology and cultural studies? Should the political economy of Tehran explain this confusion, or should the pathology of urban management do the job? It seems that an understanding of this problematic cannot be obtained within the confines of each of the above-mentioned disciplines alone, but to understand the nature of this situation we need to adopt an interdisciplinary approach. So, in this article we attempt to take the confusion of the physical form in the architecture of Tehran today into consideration from the point of view of sociological and cultural studies. We think this approach is more useful than the disciplinary approach in discovering the nature of the problematic. In this article we attempt to analyze the relationship between the physical form of the architecture of Tehran today and the cultural and sociological elements. In other words, we want to show that more than being an element dependent on the aesthetic taste or the requirements of architecture engineering, the chaotic change in the architecture of Tehran today is a variable dependent on some cultural and sociological elements.
Shima Shasti; Mohammad Mansoor Falamaki
Abstract
Human’s house is a place reflects a sign of individual/ universal self. This claim is true in every society, and so it is in Iran. By speaking about the relation between Iranian life style and physical form of house, undoubtedly we consider various elements and constituents required ...
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Human’s house is a place reflects a sign of individual/ universal self. This claim is true in every society, and so it is in Iran. By speaking about the relation between Iranian life style and physical form of house, undoubtedly we consider various elements and constituents required interdisciplinary investigation. This affinity between life style and architecture has close relation with cotemporary Iranian identity and thereby discussion of formation of a special type of “individuality” followed by modern transformations. In case of claiming that everyday life is not just a fixed domain of affairs based on habit, it is possible to study Iranian’s way of dwelling and their formation to the housing during time. This formation may create issue that within struggle of action and reaction repeatedly impact. This article by using concepts such as: Iranian individuality and everyday life at complicated society of Iran makes clear characteristics of lifestyle in Iran and housing form and studies relationship between them within a descriptiveanalytical method. In this article we consider how when a person faces with events, in Iranian society in broadness of time, in the process of determining Iranian individuality in everyday life, his conscious or unconscious choices form his principles and significant habits and finally his lifestyle and this specific lifestyle demands its specific housing form.
