Teachings of the Iranian Architecture and Residential House Construction from the Qajar Period up to the Present

Despite the fact that the ordinary residential constructions of Qajar period had a very simple façade، but they were enjoying a strong foundations and structures. In their external and internal buildings، open designs with the observation of communication principles and intimacy، attention to technical issues of waste، water branching، foundation، and fully resistant and anti-earthquake structures، façade building with artistic resistance phenomena connected to building and finally values of arts connected to architecture are all seen. Building construction at the first period of Pahlavi [regime] was following a combination of traditional architecture and those of neighboring northeast countries. In the second period of Pahlavi، building construction in Iran either from the viewpoint of design or implementation was following the western method of construction. It was such that building construction was oriented towards western styles and in some cases without any principle. This article is an attempt to discuss the external and internal building designs and teachings of their facades in Qajar period. Afterwards، the architectural teachings of contemporary age from Pahlavi onwards and the influence of architecture with no identity on contemporary building construction and abnormalities in building construction are dealt with. In fact، part of damages resulting from earthquakes refers to ignorance of the principles of traditional building construction and lack of attention to scientific principles of architecture. So، all regulations of executive instructions under the supervision of qualified bodies such as Ministry of Housing and Urban Development، senior officials and municipalities as supervisors of execution should ask the consultant engineers and supervisors of construction work places to build resistant residential and non-residential construction units.