The Trends and Theoretical Approaches of Public and Government Buildings’ Architecture on the First and Second Pahlavi era

Abstract

Architecture in every school and in every geographic region, reflects its own characteristics as a cultural and social phenomenon. The architecture never has been separated from the historical, economic, social, culture and customs of the society in different and always evolution in society, has also an important impact on architecture. The architecture in the first and second Pahlavi era, was along with the great developments in the field of western architecture besides it was influenced by the ideas and theorical attitudes of western and neighboring countries. Understanding these trends and approaches, would help comprehensive understanding of the architecture of this period and plays an important role on explanation of the effective elements place in the Iranian contemporary architecture. Due to the extensive studies that have been done in this regard in Tehran, it is needed to recognize architectural trends and approaches in different parts of the country. The architectural survey of the North West, given that the area in addition to the being under influence of western architecture, has received profound effects from the architecture of the neighboring countries, could be handy in full understanding of contemporary architecture, especially during the first and second Pahlavi era. The main question in this case study is that what can be the architectural trends and theoretical approaches in the design of public and government buildings within the first and second Pahlavi in the north west of Iran. To answer this, the historical-analytical and descriptive-analytical methods should be used to reach to the desired results which seem to be effects of neighboring countries architecture on the region’s architecture.

Keywords

• iranian contemporary architecture
• government buildings
• western architecture
• the first and second pahlavi era