Document Type : Original Research Paper

Authors

• H. Rahmani ¹
• M.R. Pourzargar ²
• B. Mansouri ¹

¹ Department of Architecture, Faculty of Arts and Architecture, Islamic Azad University, Tehran Center Branch, Tehran, Iran

² Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Islamic Azad University, Tehran Center Branch, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The contemporary architectural knowledge is affected by the dominance of centrist hegemonies as well as the swarm of information technology that have captured the human soul and consequently led to the crystallization of new forms of individual creations other than the actual creativity. This study aims at changing the learning process of human architect by freeing the mind from the accumulated information and reading of effective teachings handed down through human lived experiences that embrace spirit and emotions. This study has been carried out through a documentary research method to identify the relationship of humans with the environment and examine the works of phenomenologists in the domains of human, mind and imagination as well as the within-border roots contributing to connect humans with native phenomenon such as literature. Going through ontology and Axialism attitudes, we could infer the lost facets of “how to become human”. The intellectual-philosophical movement of phenomenology, which emerged at the dawn of the twentieth century, considered lived experience as the basis of ontology. Thereafter, it was rerouted from pure philosophy to the realm of “thought” hence, it found its way into schools of architecture by establishing a multi-faceted link between disciplines and lived experiences. The findings revealed the self-discovered process of “human architect” in acquiring experiences toward creating human architectural phenomena. This was studied from two aspects: reading rich sources and within-border roots; and learning of “how to think” as a universal viewpoint. The reading of Hafez’s poetry and his lived experience in the process of learning architecture contributes to self-discovery and mental purification and human, in this way, gains consciousness.

Keywords

• self-discovery
• consciousness
• human architect
• mental purification
• Hafez poetry phenomenon

Main Subjects

• Architecture