The generative reading of Iranian architectural precedents with the aim of disclosing the formal devices employed in the relationship between ornament and architecture

Karimi, Alireza; Javidinejad, Mehrdad; Habib, Susan

doi:10.22034/ias.2021.266173.1509

The generative reading of Iranian architectural precedents with the aim of disclosing the formal devices employed in the relationship between ornament and architecture

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Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Department of Architecture, Professor Hesabi Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tafresh, Iran

² Department of Art and Architecture, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad university, Tehran, Iran

³ Department of Architecture. Professor Hesabi Branch. Islamic Azad University. Tafresh. Iran

10.22034/ias.2021.266173.1509

Abstract

This study aims to explore the generative capacity of Iranian architectural precedents by focusing on disclosing the formal devices used in the relationship between ornament and architecture and discusses a new way of reading ornaments that is neither involved in interpreting the purposes of ornament nor in describing its consequences, instead it reads the relationship between ornament and architecture, which can reveal new dimensions of the internal evolution of architectural form.
The importance, variety, and complexity of Iranian Architectural ornaments require appealing to different reading strategies for a complementary and comprehensive studies. in this way, this study, by pointing to the importance of exploring the organizational capacity of form of architectural precedents, intends to reveal the nature of formal devices, that can mediate between ornament and its host object (Architecture).
These devices are examined according to the framework established by the "relationship of device / material" belonging to the formalist criticism of Russian literature, through which the architectural form can be understood and examined in its totality and also can be used as a method for generative analysis of architectural precedents. This method does not ignore the visual or self-referential character of the devices, but its main purpose is to reveal the instrumental role of formal devices, and by reading ornaments as one of the components of the architectural form, it tries to present various diagrams with the aim of explaining the relationship between ornament and architecture as new vocabulary to expand the boundaries of the discipline of architecture.

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