From Disposition to Love: Understanding Architect's Work in Sadrian School

The Sadrian School has a high potentiality to answer many questions in the field of architecture. This article tries to explain architect's activity based on the Sadrian School. The method of research is to analyze, interpret and infer from Mulla Sadra's thoughts to explain the architect's activities in different aspects. Architect's activity is one of the three basic works, which meets the fundamental need for a place to live in different levels. Therefore, a system of concepts related to the architect from craft and purpose, encompassment and disposition, order and cause, beauty and love are extracted from Mulla Sadra's words and discussed.The architect as a purposeful creator has imaginal and intellectual forms of the life of the man and his acts. He tries to provide a place for living as a platform for doing different activities by the disposition of the environment and changing dimensions and relationships in nature. The architect according to his/her existential level encompasses the world and recognizes causes and effects in the perfect system of existence. By dispositioning the environment in order to make a place for human life, he/she actualizes an order in nature that becomes the ground for humans and other beings to reach their desired perfection. By perceiving beauty and choosing the beloved, he regulates his intrinsic faculties. Through this inner order, the architect disposes and changes the world, and his activity becomes the manifestation of the beloved's perfect form, desirable attributes and actions.