Volume 5, Issue 2 (summer 2024)
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Problem: This article unfolds a collective educational journey that while initially faced by serious doubts, ultimately received positive feedback from the students in an online urban design workshop. During a rampant global pandemic, one of the two instructors communicating from overseas, who is experienced in teaching face-to-face courses, raised initial pedagogical concerns.
Aims: To remedy these, the two instructors dedicated the first part of the workshop to theorizing urban complexity. Exposure to theory, while less common if not uncommon in design studios, removed the students’ initial misgivings. Gaining student confidence boosted their spirit in crafting idiosyncratic interpretations based on personal memories, and paved the way toward assuming agency, and subsequently integrative learning.
Methods: This technique enabled students to connect discrete structural learning domains to produce more complicated outcomes, and by doing so experienced three states of mind. Melting away initial doubts coincided with thematic arrangement. Boosting confidence through conceptual connectivity and self-discovery, then, resulted in ebullience in designing through purposeful action.
Result: This article contributes to the scanty literature on coping mechanisms in the face of looming uncertainties both for students and instructors in teaching studios.
Volume 13, Issue 1 (Spring 2023)
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Aims: Modernization theory today, as one of the newest theories, suggests the application of contemporary architecture in the process of action in valuable cultural and historical contexts. The most challenging issue among these is to identify the differences and similarities of this theory with other competing opinions and analyze its strengths and weaknesses. The main goal of the research is to reread the theory of contemporization for adding quality to the old textures through the experience of creating value for the heritage of contemporary architecture.
Methods: The current research strategy is logical reasoning strategy. It is a descriptive-analytical research method that uses the tactic of comparative comparison to advance the research process. The theoretical framework of the research is a combination of the master architecture theory and the theory of contemporization. Hence, the research analyzes and rereads the strengths and weaknesses of the theory of contemporization by comparing competing theories.
Findings: The analysis of research findings in two fields including the field of formal system (physical-structural system) and content system (1- economic, 2- social system and 3- environmental system) shows that the theory of contemporization can be better than the theory competitors such as reconstruction, renovation, improvement and regeneration; In the category of quality, it acts as a part of historical and cultural contexts and increases the quality of life of the residents.
Conclusion: The results of the research show that the theory of contemporization by emphasizing the design approaches and values of contemporary architecture increases the quality of historical and cultural contexts; Along with simultaneous emphasis on formal system and content system.
Volume 14, Issue 1 (Spring 2024)
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which have lost their main functions, and their abandonment and lack of proper use causes them to be destroyed more and more. Nowadays, historical buildings can no longer be used as in the past and by changing the use of historical buildings, they are saved from certain death, and the concept of contemporizing all these achievements is in mind.
Methods: In this study, the time range is related to the traditional houses located in the neighborhoods of Tehran in the period from 1941 to 1966., most of the houses are related to the central core of Tehran and the surrounding and neighborhood streets of Elginab, Waliasr, Karim Khan Zand, etc. The techniques used in the applied method of this research in order to modernize modern historical monuments are preparing and completing the questionnaire, using the interpretive structural modeling (ISM) approach and linear regression technique.
Findings: Among the 42 indicators studied in the five physical-structural, perceptual, functional, socio-economic and natural-environmental dimensions, the indicators of preserving old residents, improving the quality of housing, using special colors, easy access on foot, etc. are completely inappropriate conditions in terms of the principles of modernization They play a role in the historical monuments of Tehran metropolis.
Conclusion: The four indicators of neighborhood authenticity and sense of belonging, the use of a special form, the presence of necessary activities and the recognizability of spaces have the highest and best quality compared to other studied indicators from the point of view of the theory of contemporization, and they have medium-high conditions in terms of the points obtained.
