An Unobjectified Past: The Presence of Phenomenology in Vernacular Architecture

The term Modern has been used widely since the 5th century for showing a transition between the past and present. The meaning of Modern as the transition between the past and the present escalated since the Industrial Revolution. Since then, the modern is equivalent of stylish and good and the past is bad and not developed. This special view of the past resulted in discontinuity of many traditions in architecture. As a result, scholars began to study the past as history and objectified it. In recent years, many scholars including phenomenologists believe that architecture of the past should not be objectified but rather architects and designers should learn from it and develop its core concepts by benefiting from modern technology. In this paper, we use argumentative research method to argue that Iranian architecture is suffering from lack of continuity due to objectifying its past. We will show that evolution is the core concept of architecture and since ancient times, architects used the regional features and perceptual components of architecture to improve the architecture. Then we will look for some examples in the world that sustained their architecture and improved it through technology. The results of this argument offer a phenomenological solution for the contemporary architectural crises of Iran. We suggest using the present as a continuity of the past that refers to designing based on phenomenological core concepts of the past.

کلیدواژه ها:

Phenomenology ، Iranian Architecture ، Perception ، Unobjectified Past