The Impacts of Revivalist Trends on the Contemporary Architecture of Iran (1977-2011)

Abstract

3 Abstract: A new age in Iranian architecture began with the rise of the Islamic Revolution. The political and social events of 1979 created a rupture between architecture before and after the Revolution. The special and unique characteristics of the Islamic revolution of Iran and the historic background of this country culminated in the comprehensive tendency to the revival of Iranian and especially Islamic patterns at so many fields, particularly the art and architecture. So, the architects' efforts were concentrated on the formal and conceptual connections with the past. The comparison between the architects' theory and the practice or the architects' claims and the respondents' perceptions about the amount of fidelity to the traditional architecture in their works through drawing an analogy between the architects' and the respondents' comments by means of a Correlation Test is considered as the fundamental scope of this research. The results are based on twenty outstanding case-studies, focused in the specialized textbooks or journals, among from all contemporary Iranian architecture. The research theoretical framework is founded on the distinguished architects' viewpoints about the contemporary Iranian architecture. Relying upon it, the case-studies are analyzed from four aspects, ranging from: 1- concept or Idea, 2- form or shape, 3- material and 4- respect to context. Based on the accomplished studies, attempting to create the architecture with an Islamic-Iranian identity is perceivable in the architects' comments; but they have not been so much successful in connecting their theory to the practice from the respondents' points of view.

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