mohammad ibrahim mazhary

Understanding fundamental concepts in architecture is not possible without considering the cultural and social values of humans. Since humans are social beings, they require four types of relationships for interaction: "God," "Self," "World," and "Fellow Beings". The nature of these interactions shapes the relationship with others. In this context, solitude, as one of the fundamental concepts related to the existential dimensions of human beings and one of the most important qualitative features of the environment, can provide a suitable ground for these interactions. This research has been conducted to examine the concept of solitude in Rumi's thought and answer the question, “What are the instances of solitude in Rumi's architectural elements and decorations”?

The present study is fundamental and qualitative research, utilizing meta-analysis and comparative analysis methods. In addition to investigating documents, the data collection method involves exploring theories and viewpoints, interviews, and open-ended questionnaires. For the analysis of qualitative data, coding, and examining the frequency of codes extracted from the interviews, the NVivo software is used.

Based on the theoretical model of the concept of solitude in Rumi's poetry and the logical reasoning strategy derived from the research findings, the fourfold interaction in Rumi's thought emphasizes four states of solitude: "solitude with oneself," "solitude with God," "solitude with a confidant," and "solitude in the company".

Based on the results of this research, the common concepts of solitude in the thought of Rumi and architectural elements and decorations include components such as "imagination," "the coexistence of light and darkness," "void" and "empty space," "the vertical axis of the universe," and "the property of reflection" as concepts related to "solitude with God," and the components of "inner and outer" and "loneliness" in relation to "solitude with oneself" and "intimacy" in relation to solitude with others and the community.

Today, one of the concerns of the architectural education system is to find a way of learning that can produce efficient and competent graduates. Therefore, according to the nature of the field of architecture, experiential learning as a fundamental model in the skill-oriented architecture education process and its application in the architecture curriculum requires special conditions and contexts, whose identification, analysis and evaluation form the main goals of the present research. The current research is a survey- quantitative research and considered to be applied in terms of its objective. In this research, first, the basic components of the research were collected and categorized, and then evaluated in the form of a questionnaire in order to rank, obtain opinions and check the extent it addresses this issue in the architecture education system. To determine the validity of the research questionnaire, its face and content validity and reliability were examined through Cronbach's alpha coefficient which was calculated to be above 0.7 in all cases. The statistical population of the research was selected from a group of university professors, prominent architectural experts in private and governmental organizations, and undergraduate architecture students in the architecture faculties of Kermanshah and Ahvaz in a purposeful and accessible manner. Based on the findings, lesson-oriented, inclusive-oriented and teacher-oriented components formed the experimental learning platforms of architecture. The results of the evaluation of the current situation show that there is a major gap between the current and the desired situation of providing experiential learning platforms in the architectural education system of Iran, and the arithmetic mean of the data of all components showed an inappropriate level in providing the platforms. Based on the results, it is necessary to review and modify the quality of learning platforms as much as possible based on the experimental approach.

Home as a manifestation of its residents’ culture displays different life methods, activity systems, values, and behavioral patterns. The present study aims to express the criteria and impact rate and weighing of each of them concerning each other by the realization of the effective components on the hidden map of Behbahan traditional housing. The research method with a mixed technique consists of descriptive methods and content analysis in the theoretical part and correlational and causal comparison in the field research in the case studies part. In the first step, the questionnaires were given to the residents of 30 houses in the traditional residential context of Behbahan in order to analyze the descriptive statistics that were analyzed by SPSS software. In the next step, interviews based on research questions will be compiled from a population of 10 experts who were selected by the snowball method, and inferential statistics will be extracted by analyzing them. Then the scores of questionnaires, bridge-crossroads documents, and being a Behbahan quay are compared. The research results indicate that the subsistence, cultural and social requirements caused by the region's geography and communication with merchants and others have influenced the weight of the spatial order components of Behbahan's traditional houses. This case can be seen in the orientation of houses and the formation of spatial order components with subsistence purposes.

the current research has been conducted with the aim of explaining the competency model of architecture graduates using a qualitative method based on the grounded theory approach, in three stages of open, central and selective coding.The statistical population of this research was made up of 21 university professors and prominent architectural experts in the private and government sectors by purposeful and snowball sampling.  According to the findings, the number of 130 conceptual codes and 40 sub-categories in the form of 6 main categories in the paradigm model including the cultivation of capable and competent architects as the central category, causal conditions (design and idea generation skills, specialized knowledge and awareness, research, coaching and development of others, Administrative skills, entrepreneurial skills, communication-social skills, business and leadership skills, mental ability, architectural professional ethics and personal skills), contextual factors (resources and facilities, motivational models and academic training), intervening conditions (process and type of training, interactions and communication patterns, structural facilities and equipment, legal and support infrastructure), strategies (model education and learning, creating wide communication networks, culture building and social needs assessment), consequences (professional response, educational response, individual response) have been placed. The dimensions, components and indicators calculated from the current research can be used as a framework to make changes in the educational programs of architects and guide the architectural education system in order to improve the professional capabilities of architecture graduates. It can also be used as a reliable framework for evaluating and recruiting architects in the professional world.