A Functional, Historical and Thematic study of Used Decorative Motifs in Entrances of Some Worthy Buildings in Qajar Era

From the past, building entrance has been one of important part of it and a place for emerging the beliefs and has been decorated with different motifs. The Qajar era can be considered as an era that because of combination of traditional and western culture, few changes has happened in type and number of prevalent decorative motifs in building entrances. According to this matter, problem that this research follows is “the loss of apparent image of functional, historical and thematic characters of prevalent decorative motifs in Qajar worthy building entrances, in published art and architect studies in Iran”. The goal of this research is “to present an apparent statements about functional, historical and thematic characters of motifs that have been used in building entrances in selected buildings”. The research is a developmental research and its method is descriptive-analytic. Information of first part is gathered through case studies and information of second part through library resources and internet resources. In this research, 30 Qajar worthy buildings, was selected based on quality and quantity (Cochran formula) conditions, as statistical samples. The result of research shows, widely used decorative motifs in selected buildings, includes four main types: herbaceous, human, animal, geometric. Widely used motifs are under the geometric and herbaceous type.