JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES IN ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE
Year:2015 | Volume:3 | Issue:1 (6)|Papers Count:7

Despite the existence of rich cultural, historical and technological foundations in the architecture and urbanism of Iran, current condition depicts weaknesses, inadequacy, deficiency, alienation and identity crisis. The lack of a systematic approach toward Islamic urbanism for implementing sympathetic demands is one of the most important contemporary issues. This subject is particularly obvious in regeneration of historical urban textures, while Islamic cities are physical masses that can convey the past traditions of a society to the new generations in the modern world. The absence of a systematic approach for explaining the characteristics of Islamic urbanism deteriorates the conditions. In fact, historical textures are parts of the modern cities which could be realized as the signs of Islamic models with a little attention to their half-dead bodies. Each historic fact in order to play a prominent role in its current environment and to be further than an antique object must locate in a dynamic space. That is because the continuity of the life and dynamism of a city in contemporary world demand adapting and responding to cultural, economic and other needs of modern citizens.

Mankind is always interacting with an environment that contains various meanings and layers with each of which the environment behaves differently, and on the other hand, this behavior is effectively reflected back to the environment. In recent decades, experimental environmental psychology has sought to help solve the issues posed to human societies by pursuing two objectives of theoretical understanding of human interactions with the environment and applying this understanding in practice. In pursuit of these objectives, the area of knowledge has succeeded to build theories and achieve practical findings. Nevertheless, applying these achievements in an Islamic society faces theoretical and practical challenges in both «description» and «prescription», which in turn necessitates further investigations about «Islamic Environmental Psychology».

Knowledge and understanding of human nature and existential dimensions of man, guides individuals to control and direct their needs against diversity and rapid change of styles. Nowadays, art and architecture aim to satisfy public opinion. Diversification and complex forms are changing constantly to satisfy needs according to style, culture, taste, and current technology without considering their inner side, and what goes unnoticed here is attention to the context of humanity which does not advance up to date and is always obsolete.

Developing knowledge and novelty are the main objectives of educational system. A lot of factors are needed to satisfy the above mentioned requirements. Factors such as quality enhancement of educational space. It should be noted that education is not only influenced by the teacher›s teaching, but also touched by educational spaces. Relating factors, including educational environment, play an important role in transmitting the information to a person.

The Blue Mosque in Tabriz is one of the masterpieces of Iranian art during QaraQoyunlu era, construction of the mosque according to cornice in entrance terrace, goes back to era of Sultan Jahanshah QaraQoyunlu and 1466. Written documents and available reasons represent that the single building of the Blue Mosque was a member of great architectural complex called Mozaffariyeh, which included other parts such as apron, monastery, symmetry, library, guest house etc.

Seljuk period is one of the important periods of Islamic Art in Iran architecture. The Seljuk brickworks represent Iran architectural perfection in aspects of techniques and variety. The magnificence of Seljuk brickworks is not found in other later periods. Therefore, further investigation is needed due to the importance of this issue. In this research, literature reviews, field studies and survey is done by analytical- descriptive method. The aims of research are as followed; introducing the important motifs of brickworks identify, variety of layout types, and the sustain modality of brickworks during the historical periods.

Chahar-Bagh is one of the most famous streets of Isfahan and perhaps, Iran. Chahar-Bagh, as agreen street, had a certain geometric pattern which included the rows of trees, roads, sidewalks and central stream. Chahar-Bagh Street was actually a lineal urban space which stretched from the north to the south, towards Naghsh Jahan square (Emam Square) as the central urban space of Esfahan and together managed to form and organize the structure of the new Safiavidpart of Isfahan beside the old Seljuk part of Isfahan. Chahar-BaghStreet of Isfahan could not be considered as the first special green urban street, nor the last one.