Methodology of Analysis and classification of public buildings of contemporary Iranian architecture from 1941 to 1978

Research Problem: 

Contemporary Iranian architecture and its respect to the analysis of the contemporary thoughts is a subject that has been studied less accurately and its empty position in the knowledge of Iranian architecture is well visible. Considering the modern architecture of Iran, studying and analyzing the works of this period, it seems that they can be classified according to their architectural features in the particular era of Iranian architecture and independent of the approaches to western architecture. Although one of the first tendencies to study in the field of architecture in the period 1941-1978. It has been more than a few decades in Iran, but in fact there is still no written history based on scientific-historiographical methods about this period so that it can be used as a valid document and reference for contemporary architecture in Considered. Due to this lack, the present article pays attention to the contemporary architecture of Iran, especially between the years1941-1978, and specifically public buildings that can represent other buildings of this period.

Research Question: 

This research attempts to make a comprehensive look at the public buildings of contemporary architecture of Iran during the period of 1941- 1978. And finds the appropriate model as the architectural characteristic of this era, so it can deal with the recognition of architectural ideas, analytic types, and processing, in order to ultimately be able to provide a classification of these works. To answer what is the nature of this architecture? Architecture of Iranian public buildings What characteristics and architectural patterns should have for classification? What tendencies and styles, the main architecture of the years between 1941 and 1978 is included?

The present article seeks to investigate a very important period of Iranian architecture, between the years 1941 and 1978. Obviously, this issue will be analyzed by examining the architectural foundations of this period and the impact of the introduction of new technology on the changes made in the works of public buildings. This research has tried to take a comprehensive look at the public buildings of contemporary Iranian architecture in the period 1941-1978. In addition to finding patterns and architectural features of this period, to recognize and process the ideas of their architects; Finally, it can take a step towards presenting an innovative method of classifying these works.

The method is based on analyses, but in some cases uses descriptions to achieve better results. The field and library research has been dedicated to presenting and organizing information in descriptive and visual form so that through interviewing modern scholars and architects - who in this paper will refer to them as experts, uses method of analyzing the quality and the question of this research is about general public buildings in architecture of Iran between 1941 and 1978.

The results of this research with the adaptation of all the opinions of the experts, are presented in the form of tables and chronological graphs, that are placed together with the expression of the image to show the status of certain architectural styles and the names of the architects of the period 1978-1993 with their specific ideas, so can achieve more detailed information about the architecture in this era.