An Evaluation on the Use of Islamic-Iranian Cultural Indices for Designing Practices in the Lessons, Introduction of Architecture Design (Case Study: Tehran University)

The aim of this study is to evaluate the value of using Islamic-Iranian cultural indices to design practices in lessons of architecture design introduction. For this reason, college of fine arts in Tehran University was selected as case study. The method of investigation was descriptive-analytical via taking photographs from courses held in ateliers, 5 and 6. This study was an applicable study in the terms of results. The statistical society was comprised of 44 teachers of architecture in Tehran and Tabriz universities, which was collected by random sampling method. The questions were categorized into three concepts of geometry, innovation, form and space and each concept was comprised of Islamic-Iranian architectural parameters. In order to investigate the content of questionnaires, CVR (content validity ration) was applied among 10 specialists and their stability was determined as 0.88 by Cronbach's alpha. The analysis was performed via descriptive methods of statistics and conclusive statistics in SPSS software. The acquired results demonstrated that Islamic-Iranian cultural indices were evaluated as weak (4.54%), medium (86.36%), and strong (9.1%). Based on detachments, Islamic-Iranian indices have been followed in architecture design intro, 3 with average of 64.94 and this parameter was followed in architecture design intro, 2 and 1 with average values of 49.05 and 39.26 respectively. Eventually, it can be concluded that a little variation by teachers in designing practices and including low score parameters to each of the three lessons could provide appropriate practices based on Islamic-Iranian cultures.