فهرست مطالب ruhollah tazimifar

City of Kashan is located in north of Isfahan province, between the Karkas Mountains of Natanz and the Great Salt Desert; where vegetation is inappreciable and bushes and shrubs are slight. Kashan has a warm and dry climate and in accordance with that, some structures, titled Khane-Bagh (house-garden), have been designed which contained a building with fruitful and unfruitful trees at its opposite side and a stream between the building and garden. Nowadays most of Khane-Baghs have destroyed and only few of them remained empty and almost dilapidated here and there. Lajavardi Khane-Bagh is the only structure of this kind that despite of alterations and modifications, has survived firm and steady is now employed as the cultural center of Fayz Kashani.
This article is presented in two parts; at the former one, pre-Islamic revolution owners of the structure, namely Lajavardi family, have been introduced and at the second one, architecture of the building and its usages before and after Islamic revolution of Iran have been investigated based on field research and documentation.

Ravand is one of the surrounding cities of Kashan which has numerous gardens owing to its climate features. There are edifices in some of these gardens named garden house; However, only 3 of them had been identified in this region at the time of writing the current paper. One of these garden houses is the Arbab Mashallah Mansuri garden house which seems that dates back to late Qajar and early Pahlavi I dynasty according to the current documents. At the time of documentation by the author, its garden had been dried and become an arid land. In spite of considerable damages, its edifice had been survived which, strangely enough, was suddenly destroyed by its owner. This paper aims to study and review this building especially its location and architectural features using photos and maps of this garden house provided by the author as well as field study.

Shasusa historical building is located in farmlands of Mullahabib plain about two kilometers far from Kashan, adjacent to the old road to Aran and Bidgol, behind the rail lines of Kashan. The building has a four-vault structure with Colombo coverage as the vault and the corners of which are in the form of squinches. This building is covered by adobe and the ring of vaults are built of brick. Stucco and plaster of clay and straw(thatch) are two main materials that are used in the interior and exterior structure of the building respectively. The area is located at the center of a land surrounded by a mud and brick wall. “History of Kashan-e-Zarrabi” book is deemed to be the oldest document in which the name of this historical building is mentioned. But the reason that the name of this building has got abroad and is almost well- known by many people lies behind the fact that a poem composed by Sohrab Sepehri is called “Shasusa” which has been published in his poetry collection of “Debris of Sun”. Since no accurate research has been carried out on category of historical period and the use of this building so far, this study aims to discover an accurate answer about category of historical period and the use of this building through a desk and field research. According to these studies, it could be reasonably argued that Shasusa building had been a religious monument in past and it was paid attention by the inhabitants of Kashan as a shrine.