THE NECESSITY TO VALUE CULTURAL HERITAGE IN ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION

Prophet Mohammad peace be upon him stated: “Record and preserve the words that you hear from me and deliver it to the next generations.” In this alighting statement lays indications to honor and respect the past and also value and honor the future. The effects and sparkles of identity in the past monuments and writings, especially architecture is in itself valuable, and honoring this value is respecting the present, respecting the past and respecting the future and with the misconceived aspects of it, is a source to reflect upon and an intermediary for knowledge and consciousness. The rich Iranian architecture from the past or in other words cultural heritage is a manifestation of knowledge and revelation of truth which has the ability to enhance the extents of awareness of the educational system for teaching architecture. The educational system for teaching architecture should accumulate the beneficiary scopes of these systems of knowledge in architectural education. Therefore architectural education system should be known in respect to the enrichment of the affiliation of architectural identity with the belief of cumulative knowledge of cultural-architectural heritage and should be known as the metalanguage of contemporary architecture and as a rubric for architectural education.