Roya Arbabi - Department of Architecture, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran
Maryam Sadat Negarandeh - Department of Architecture, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran

Today one of our problems is inattention to modern heritage. Many people does not know modern buildings as modern heritage. Since, the level of people’s knowledge is important to conservation and reuse of heritage, the result of this inattention is damages to the modern heritage. In last recent years, many valuable modern buildings have damaged because of the officials and people’s inattention. If this inattention last longs there will be no modern heritage left for our next generation. For these important reasons doing this research becomes necessary. The first step is studying on people’s knowledge and awareness about modern heritage. At the Second step we can study the effects of people’s knowledge on adaptability and reuse of modern heritage. Authors edited a quantitative questionnaire for this purpose and spread it between one 150 people of Tehran. The result of the questionnaires shows that the level of people’s education, their majors and jobs are effective on their interests and awareness about modern heritage

knowledge, cultural heritage, modern heritage, adaptability, reuse, Tehran