Phenomenology of Hafez’s Poetry Doctrines in the Process of Learning Architecture Based on Van Manen’s Approach

Abstract
Problem statement: The structure of today’s architectural education and the doctrines presented in this system have tried to figure out how to build the body of architecture and how to create architectural work. This trend, in turn, has led to the authority of fabricated formations and the narcissism of contemporary man. Architecture is a local phenomenon the roots of which must be traced to the folk and their lived experiences. As such, this article seeks the lived doctrines of Hafez’s poetry and phenomenology of the impact of these experiences on the process of learning architecture.
Research This study aims to understand and reexamine the lived experiences of human beings in relation to the reading of Hafez’s poetry to promote humanizing doctrines in the process of learning architecture.
Research This study is qualitative research, employing a phenomenological method and Van Manen’s approach (a descriptive-interpretative approach). Here, we seek to investigate the internal and intellectual doctrines obtained from lived experiences of Hafez’s poetry through interviews with eight experts who were already acquainted with Hafez’s poetry in the fields of philosophy, literature, humanities, and architecture, In the research process, 18 doctrines were obtained. Then, through MAXQDA software the main themes were summed up and horizontalized.
Hafez’s poetry, as a “mediating space”, is a phenomenon that deals not only with aspects of humanization but also with the techniques for establishing extensive relationships with another phenomenon. The result of this study is presented in the form of a final model (Dayere -e- Mina), meaning human refinement and self- therapy to change the hegemonic attitude of static phenomena, how to teach human beings as well as rewriting architecture through Hafez’s lived experiences with a metaphorical language.