Abstract:
Islam is regarded to pay attention to the characteristics of urban life which can be practiced on the urban settings. Not surprisingly, Islam has made a great focus on the form and design of cities and prescribed detailed and elaborate regulations for individual and communal life. Seen from other way round, the penetration of Islam into various regions such as Iran, Europe, and Africa had an undeniable impact on life style, urban design and social interactions. As an ancient civilization with a rich set of knowledge, culture, art and unification beliefs, Iran became the host of Islamic ideology, relying on the propagation of its achievements while keeping its principle and value criteria independent of time and place. Architecture has two dimensions; material and spiritual and its body consists of structure, construction and different materials while its spirit and meaning of architecture is derived from history, memory and long lasting national and native values of a homeland which ascribes a specific meaning to architecture and produces a mental image in the minds. In this paper, we are seeking for criterion to assess Islamic architecture and evaluate it. Architecture is of different dimensions, each has its own value criteria but determining the Islamic architecture and Islamic city of architecture let alone stating whether architecture in this period is Islamic or not demands a great effort while it is worth mentioning that Islam is not limited to a specific age and place and can meet the needs of human being in different period.
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Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Architecture, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
Candidate, Department of Art and Architecture, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
As an ancient civilization with a rich set of knowledge, culture, art and unification beliefs, Iran became the host of Islamic ideology, relying on the propagation of its achievements while keeping its principle and value criteria independent of time and place.
com 1This article is adapted from the Ph. D thesis of the Corresponding author (Amir Hosein Pourjohari) titled "How to determine Urban Growth Boundary of Iranian cities" researched in Department of Architecture and Urban Development, Science & Research Branch Tehran, Islamic Azad University, Iran under supervisory of Dr. Hamid Majedi and co-supervisory of Dr. Esfandiar Kharat Zebardast in 2010.
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The quality principles dominant over Iran architecture There exists this belief in Iranian culture that architecture is the art of shaping space in terms of requisites and human’s historical approach to cosmos, human and the origin of creation, related to religious or mundane culture of humans.
5. Geometry: in Islamic art and architecture, geometry is of great importance which is the place of divine thought and understanding of cosmos.
Quality principles of architecture and city extracted from Islamic The city consisting of rules is expressed as a mirror of human life and directs his activities by inducing values and cultural Mohammad Naghizadeh, Mohammadmehdi Goodarzisoroush dimensions extracted from ideal and worldviews.