Restudy of diaries in order to study bath's architecture in Iran history

Subject Areas : Epistemological and methodological researcher of historical research

mohsen tabasi ¹ (استادیار دانشکده هنر و معماری دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد مشهد)

Received: 2015-12-26 Accepted : 2015-12-26 Published : 2011-12-22

Keywords: Iran, architecture, Travel, diary, Bath,

Abstract :

Diaries are the most important documents about Iranian history that their translation and analysis can help us to understand more about our history. Also we know that remain only a few remains of historic baths; because this type of architecture is very weak against damages and demolitions. For this reason, all diaries' writings about baths can find special importance. This paper reviews some of the most famous and important diaries with the analytic and comparative methods to find more about baths' architecture and leave the anthropological aspects. The results show that all reviewed diaries pointed 281 times to different aspects of baths' architecture. Naser-al Din Shah's diary with 34 times, Jakob Eduard Polak's diary with 26 and Gaspard Drouville's diary with 24 times have some important information about baths' architecture.