The effectiveness of Nazi Germany on the Reflection of Power Building in the Architecture of Governmental Buildings in Azerbaijan of the first Pahlavi period ( Case study: Tabriz & Urmia)

Subject Areas : Epistemological and methodological researcher of historical research

Mohammad Amin Khojasteh Ghamari ¹ , Hossein Soltanzadeh ²

1 - پژوهشگر دکتری معماری،دانشکده معماری و شهرسازی،دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد تهران مرکزی،تهران،ایران؛
2 - گروه معماری، دانشکده معماری و شهرسازی،دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد تهران مرکزی،تهران،ایران

Received: 2021-05-08 Accepted : 2021-08-07 Published : 2021-08-23

Keywords: Power, First Pahlavi, neoclassic, Nazi Germany, Pahlavi Architectural,

Abstract :

First Pahlavi period is considered the most outstanding era of Iran’s contemporary history due to extensive political and social transformation. During his twenty-year reign, Reza Shah was always trying to intensify his own reigning power structure because of his nationalistic and military-centered inclinations as well as relationship with countries like Germany, especially in Hitler’s period. Meanwhile different cities of country such as Tabriz and Urmia located in the state of Azarbaijan also benefited from this kind of attitude, and important governmental buildings were stablished in these cities in the presence of German architects and engineers. How Nazi Germany structure had an effect on the manifestation of power structure in Iranian architectural structure and investigating it, in particular in two aforementioned cities, is the main goal of this research. As this research is qualitative, a combination of the two approaches of historical-interpretive and descriptive-analytic has been carried out. The results obtained imply that modeling of Nazi architectural concepts and western neoclassic bases resulting from the relations with Germany and the presence of German Architects has had an undeniable role in the formation of governmental architecture and power structure.