The Influence of Modernistic Lifestyle on Privacy in Extrovert Homes of the First Pahlavi Period:Tehran

One of the major and important goals of First Pahlavi era was modernization or change in lifestyle of people based on western models that Many reform programs were formulated in this regard. Among the major changes that were taking place in various fields, Many of the modernists who had been embraced by the West from the government demanding to change their housing architecture to the west ,which later became the model for wider range housing in Tehran. Due to the special architectural value in terms of cultural and social changes in first Pahlavi era, is one of the requirements of contemporary architecture. The goal of present study is identification and study of privacy quality of architectural space of Extrovert Homes in Tehran city which were built under influence of modernistic changes of lifestyle during First Pahlavi era. Data collection method was done through library review and The methodology in this research is a combination of historical-interpretive and descriptive-analytical methods. Method of data analysis is deductive reasoning that was conducted through space syntax.The results of this study show that the concepts of modernist lifestyle can be divided into three main categories: anti-Traditionalism, humanism, nature, architecture and individualism that each of the modern components of the lifestyle justify different aspects of the concept of privacy. In these houses, the concept of confidentiality was ranked first: visual and auditory privacy and ownership, second: privacy and supervision of social practices, third: privacy and territory, and fourth: privacy and security. Fifth: privacy and family.