Dr. Mostafa Behzadfar Armanshahr Architecture & Urban Development 2008-5079 16 45 2024 03 19 Analysis of the Relationship between Childhood Sense of Place and Adulthood Architectural Taste; Case Study: Architecture Students of Imam Khomeini International University (IKIU) Analysis of the Relationship between Childhood Sense of Place and Adulthood Architectural Taste; Case Study: Architecture Students of Imam Khomeini International University (IKIU) 161 176 183814 10.22034/aaud.2023.367048.2731 FA Ahmad Ali Iraji Ph.D. Student of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin (Corresponding Author). Mahdi Zandieh Associate Professor of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin. Mohammad Sadegh Falahat Associate Professor of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Art, Zanjan University, Zanjan. Reza Sameh Assistant Professor of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin. Journal Article 2022 10 24 Architectural taste is a faculty that creates sensibility but not reason or quick intellectual discernment plus delicacy of feeling that leads to architectural choices. This is a knowledge that does not come from logic, but from architectural insight, and relies on the intuitive ideas of the person’s mind rather than on the logical data of them. One of the ways to understand the behavior of the user's architectural taste is to know the sources that produce this spatial-intuitive consciousness in their minds, and the sense of place is one of these sources. The user's sense of place from previously experienced places is an extract of their intuitive perceptions of those places, which is recorded in their minds as a feeling. The feelings that are most tangible of them can be found in their childhood. The purpose of this study, on the one hand, is to redefine the concept of childhood sense of place and architectural taste, and on the other hand, to find the components of childhood sense of place among statistical society members regarding their childhood buildings to analyze and compare the effect of these components on the pleasant components of their taste in architecture during adulthood. Therefore, this study determines what the architectural taste and childhood sense of place are, and on the other hand, answers the question of why a relationship exists between childhood sense of place and adulthood taste in the architecture of a person and what is the nature of this relationship. According to the findings of this research, the sense of place towards childhood buildings is divided into three major categories: positive sense of place (place of pleasure, secure place, and place of regret), negative sense of place (place of pain), and neutral sense of place (place of repetition). The positive sense of place, especially the place of regret has a considerable effect on the adulthood architectural taste. This study used mixed methods (in-depth qualitative interviews and quantitative weighing of obtained data) for data collection and classification, and the proposed analyses are qualitative and researcher-based. Architectural taste is a faculty that creates sensibility but not reason or quick intellectual discernment plus delicacy of feeling that leads to architectural choices. This is a knowledge that does not come from logic, but from architectural insight, and relies on the intuitive ideas of the person’s mind rather than on the logical data of them. One of the ways to understand the behavior of the user's architectural taste is to know the sources that produce this spatial-intuitive consciousness in their minds, and the sense of place is one of these sources. The user's sense of place from previously experienced places is an extract of their intuitive perceptions of those places, which is recorded in their minds as a feeling. The feelings that are most tangible of them can be found in their childhood. The purpose of this study, on the one hand, is to redefine the concept of childhood sense of place and architectural taste, and on the other hand, to find the components of childhood sense of place among statistical society members regarding their childhood buildings to analyze and compare the effect of these components on the pleasant components of their taste in architecture during adulthood. Therefore, this study determines what the architectural taste and childhood sense of place are, and on the other hand, answers the question of why a relationship exists between childhood sense of place and adulthood taste in the architecture of a person and what is the nature of this relationship. According to the findings of this research, the sense of place towards childhood buildings is divided into three major categories: positive sense of place (place of pleasure, secure place, and place of regret), negative sense of place (place of pain), and neutral sense of place (place of repetition). The positive sense of place, especially the place of regret has a considerable effect on the adulthood architectural taste. This study used mixed methods (in-depth qualitative interviews and quantitative weighing of obtained data) for data collection and classification, and the proposed analyses are qualitative and researcher-based. https://www.armanshahrjournal.com/article_183814_dbc8caf0d2c3f88d87e51c0d745bff34.pdf