TITLE:
Historical Perception of Architecture and Cultural History Approach
AUTHORS:
Azin Ehteshami
KEYWORDS:
History, Architectural History, Architectural Historical Perception, Cultural History
JOURNAL NAME:
Art and Design Review,
Vol.6 No.2,
May
31,
2018
ABSTRACT: The experts and specialists in the field of
architecture have had different viewpoints and approaches in defining the
concepts of “history” and “the history of architecture”, all through the
compiled history of architecture. Analysis of these viewpoints that are
sometimes in contrast and sometimes similar to each other brings forward some
questions in the minds of the addressees in the field of history of
architecture regarding whether or not there is a comprehensive approach or
definition about the history of architecture among the existing approaches! And, in case of a positive response, what are the approaches and what can
be their specification? The present article,
which is a qualitative study with descriptive-analytical approach, is organized
with the aim and motivation to respond to the above questions, and it is done
by collecting, interpretation, and analyzing the required data. This study has
three main parts, the first of which deals with the redefinition of the concept
of “history”, the advantages and applications of the history. The second part
analyzes the concept of “history of architecture” and searching in the most
important viewpoints about that concept; according to these analyses, “the
approach towards the cultural history” is introduced and determined as the most
comprehensive approach in defining the history of architecture. The third part,
which is indeed the complementary part of the descriptions in the second part,
is allocated to the explanation of the components of architectural historical
perception based on the cultural historical theory, clarifying that the
cultural historical approach is the approach that represents “architectural
historical perception” as the comprehensive perception of architecture and its
history.