Architectural Stylistics of Second Pahlavi Period, with approach of Evaluating the Building’s Physical Behavior in each Style

Subject Areas : Urban Futurology

maziar sardari ¹ (Ph.D Architecture Candidate, Department of Art and Architecture, West Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.)
leila zare ² (Assistant Professor of Architecture, Department of Art and Architecture, West Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.)
Avideh talaei ³ (Assistant Professor of Architecture, Department of Art and Architecture, West Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.)
vahid ghobadian ⁴ (Associate Professor of Architecture, Department of Art and Architecture, West Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.)

Received: 2023-04-16 Accepted : 2023-04-18 Published : 2023-07-23

Keywords: stylistics, body, Second Pahlavi, Prominent Buildings,

Abstract :

Architectural stylistics as an approach, has various functions in the study of architectural history. One of its most important functions is as a classification method in the history of architecture. In recent researches, the necessity of achieving styles in the Iranian architecture evolution, by referring to the body of prominent buildings, has always been brought up. Therefore, these bodies and their architecture evaluating, will be the best way to know the styles. The topic of Iranian architectural stylistics has always been a part of challenging debates in scientific societies, due to the wide and varied definitions and functions of it, there is no clear consensus among researchers. The stylistics of the second Pahlavi period has always been very important; on the one hand in terms of looking at past architecture and on the other hand due to the arrival of modern architecture in this period, is a turning point in the history of iran architecture. Therefore, this article tries to extract the titles of architectural styles in the second Pahlavi period with using a qualitative method and interpretive-historical approach, along with extensive documentary and library studies, and then with a detailed examination of the prominent building's body; evaluate the characteristics of each style and classify them. The research results show that five styles; "Traditional architecture", "Western modern architecture", "Organic architecture", "Modernist Iranian architecture" and "High-tech architectures", are the styles in the period from 1332 to 1357 A.S, that each one, according to their own theories, displays historical or modern characteristics, in the body of each buildings with a different image.