Role of Social Trends in Appearance of Iranian National Architectural Movements

Subject Areas : Urban Design

Jamaleddin Soheili ¹

1 - Ph.D. Assistant professor, Department of Art and Architecture, Ghazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ghazvin, Iran

Received: 2010-08-28 Accepted : 2011-05-27 Published : 2012-04-01

Keywords: architecture, Iran, Nationalism, liberal, religious, ancient – oriented,

Abstract :

Appearance of nationalism in each country is influenced by some social , religious and politicalfactors throughout the history of that country In Iranian contemporary history, this process has also been dependentupon opinions and thoughts of some of the nationalist intellectuals and modernists their intellectual products playedan important role in various social , intellectual and even artistic areas of the country .thus this paper firstly seeks tointroduce nationalistic social trends in Iran and classify nationalist architectural tendencies in flounced by nationalistsocial trends besides explication of nationalist principles of each tendency and in the following , along with explanationof nationalist tendencies in architecture , some architectural works are introduced as examples.