The Role of Mediated and Environmental Experience of the Contemporary Architecture Educating in Iran

One of the results of contemporary modernity is a strong presence of media in daily life. Scholars see this process from different aspects and the issue which is widely accepted by them is the deep influence of media on people.This influence and experience which is a mediated experience, due to its fast nature and mass information, cannot be a deep experience and it reduces the direct effect of environment.This issue which can shape the relationship between the human and environment in the area of architecture is very important and at the first stage training about it is very vital. Contemporary architecture has a global view and challenges such as tradition and modernity in Iran and the education system of it contains a lot of compulsory and fundamental differences with the past. Because of fastness, easiness, low costing and attraction of media big majority of students use it and get influenced by it. So because of the mentioned reasons this question is asked "What is the role of media in architecture education and environmental experiment for students?" Based on the above isuues a research was done amongst 250 students of Tehran and Islamic Azad university of Tehran in the year of 85-86. The results showed that major part of their architectural knowledge is gained via media which is not deep enough. This recognition is weak as there is no deep knowledge about philosophy of architecture and its related cultural and social issues which causes a weak and inefficient environmental experiment.