Contemplation on the Potential of Nature in Developing Inventive Architectural Concepts

Subject Areas : Architecture

Babak Ashtari ¹ , Mansour Yegane ² , Khosro Daneshjoo ³

1 - Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Architecture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Assis‌tant Professor, Department of Architecture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2020-11-15 Accepted : 2021-01-06 Published : 2022-01-01

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