The Relationship between "Wisdom" and "Conceptuality" and its Effect on the Formation of Contemporary Architecture of Iran

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Professor of Architecture, School of Architecture, College of Fine Arts, Universityof Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

2 Ph.D. Candidate of Architectural Technology, School of Architecture, College of Fine Arts, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The key problem in contemporary Iranian architecture is that of the fundamental differences with the content of traditional and post-traditional architecture. The present article sought to use the relationship between such concepts as "wisdom in traditional architecture" and "conceptuality in Iranian contemporary architecture" to define wisdom and conceptuality and determine their structural features in architecture. The research hypothesis stated the longitudinal relationship between the requirements of the traditional world in the form of religious and intellectual wisdom, known as "intellectual wisdom" and the modern world in the form of intellectual individualism and scientific and professional development, known as "scientific wisdom"; suggesting that conceptuality is a value-based approach in the world of modernity. This research sought to create a deductive and analytical structure between the traditional and modern nature of architecture to explain the extent to which the concepts constitute an architectural work from the perspective of wisdom and conceptuality. In its historical context (contemporary Iranian architecture), conceptual architecture has been "architecture of eclectic wisdom", underlying visual elements, and the originality of the image. Moreover, this article ushers in a new area for future researches, thus providing "neo-conceptuality" or "Intellectual new-conceptuality" modeling for Iranian architecture, as proposed by the author. Here, one would refer to the research-based design approach, i.e., "neo-conceptuality", by using para-models and parametric design methods which, in the critique of neo-conceptuality, it replaces "image" in "conceptualism" with intrinsic "features" and "theme-context" of the underlying context in the para-models; thus, founding a more inclusive approach for defining structures.

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Armanshahr Architecture & Urban Development
Volume 14, Issue 34
June 2021
Pages 168-157

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  • Receive Date: 12 December 2018
  • Revise Date: 20 January 2019
  • Accept Date: 17 February 2019

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