H. Nassaj; M. Soltani
Abstract
Upheavals which occurred in western architecture in terms of different buildings, external and internal facades, decorations and garnitures, public and private spaces, materialfrom the ancient until the end of the 20th century, represent the undeniable role of politics and political thoughts in these ...
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Upheavals which occurred in western architecture in terms of different buildings, external and internal facades, decorations and garnitures, public and private spaces, materialfrom the ancient until the end of the 20th century, represent the undeniable role of politics and political thoughts in these upheavals and dynamics. Accordingly, the effects of politics can be observed at different levels including the instrumental use of owners of political, economic, and religious power from architecture for expressing and representing their own power via constructing outstanding buildings such as palaces, temples, triumphal arches, and churches. In addition, the advent of new forms of public spaces, the appearance of buildings for public offerings such as exhibitions and museums and the separation of public and private spaces have been offerings of enlightenment and humanism, liberalism, and capitalism. Due to the direct intervention of governments in the domain construction because of damages caused by wars of the first half of the 20th century, more emphasis have been put on the function of buildings as spaces and places of occurring modern life and homogenous architectural style was prescribed for realizing a comprehensive international identity. At last, with the collapse of metanarrative of modernism and rise of postmodernism, pluralism, decentralization, infinity of senses, the rejection of hierarchy and flexibility in architecture of the late 20th century can be observed and investigated. Therefore, the present study is to investigate the relationship between politics and architecture in the framework of interdisciplinary studies.
A. Farsi; M. Talebi
Abstract
The phenomenon of Sanandaj Traditional Bazaar is a complete and complex set of economic, cultural and social activities. A reasonable harmony has gradually developed between the various aspects of the Bazaar and its architecture in spite of all these complexities. Thus it seems that this phenomenon involves ...
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The phenomenon of Sanandaj Traditional Bazaar is a complete and complex set of economic, cultural and social activities. A reasonable harmony has gradually developed between the various aspects of the Bazaar and its architecture in spite of all these complexities. Thus it seems that this phenomenon involves valuable but hidden structures, whose understanding is possible only in a constructive interaction with the space, its users and the shopkeepers. The purpose of this study is to explain the Sanandaj Traditional Bazaar phenomenon as reflected in the experiences of the users and shopkeepers through a phenomenological viewpoint and by relying on the views of philosophers such as Gadamer and Heidegger. The research method is phenomenological hermeneutics, and depth semi-structured interviews with eleven shopkeepers and users were conducted in this study. Finally, nineteen new semantic horizons of Sanandaj Traditional Bazaar emerged. The violation of the main passage by the shopkeepers as an authentic behavior, the communicational function of Bazaar, the combination of the concept of Sanandaj Traditional Bazaar with the historic event of the construction of Enghelab Street, the comfort and intimacy in communications within the Bazaar and incomprehensible natural passage of time in the Bazaar due to the physical structure of the Bazaar, are the main results of this paper.
