Analysis of Reconstruction Process of Abadan & Khoramshahr from Theoretical View Point

he reconstruction process of war-\!,.l.- damaged areas followed the Iran- Iraq Eight-Year Imposed War was done under special political and ideological environment. The war was broken out a short time after the Islamic Revolution victory in Iran, and the revolutionary environment was deeply influencing the whole environment of the war as well as many other aspects in the country.The revolutionary environment has affected many aspects relevant to the reconstruction process which was attempted First to be done during the war was going on just after the liberation of Khorramshahr in 1982.The main characteristic of the Islamic Revolution was the deep rejection to, the Shah regime (the previous regime), and all relevant aspects including the urban development and architecture. This environment was highly influential on the post-war reconstruction of the main damaged cities such as Abadan and Khorramshahr.The high importance of these cities on national level caused high consideration to their reconstruction programs on higher level.So a national attempt was building up considering using the reconstruction opportunity of these two cities, and specially Khorramshahr which was severely damaged by the war to create some living-environment suit the Islamic Revolutionary Society, rejecting the previous living-environment which was representing the anti-Islamic regime.But the decision-making process was to be done in a short time in order to serve the revolutionary environment, and research could not be done to set design criteria on reconstruction suitable to the revolutionary environment Therefore,some architects that were educated mainly during the 1970s in Europe, and mainly in Britain, who believe in Modernism, using the revolutionary environment to turn the post-war reconstruction of Abadan, and particularly Khorramshahr, using the modernism learning, especially those associated with the rejection of the history of the place and the user society. Thus, there were the modernism ideas and principles dominating the reconstruction planning and design, in steed of the Islamic Revolutionary ones.