درجستجوی فضای خویش، کنکاشی درباره هویت‌مندی و پویایی در معماری معاصر

The loss of the identity of spaces in the architecture and urban planning of the contemporary world is a comprehensive and multifaceted issue influenced by various factors such as globalization, rapid urban development and transformations, and new technologies in construction. The crisis is aggravated for the developing countries with a rich architectural heritage that have welcomed modernity and its achievements in building techniques, and their architects have begun to design through the lenses of Western aesthetics in architecture. We might consider it possible to change the view of architects and designers from a purely aesthetic point of view to a life-orientated one. But, we cannot still be oblivious to the influence of the imported techniques and materials that play a significant role in the quality of spaces. The profit-seeking point of view has taken away the opportunity to digest the imported architecture.
Considering the opinions of thinkers in the fields of humanities and architecture, the present essay raises the question of the possibility of reviving the lost identity on the scope of this crisis and how to maintain the connection to culture and history while accompanying the forced path of the times and the world. Through this exploration, the essay tries to find components for identity while being dynamic in architectural and urban design. The research approach is a theoretical approach in which the opinions of thinkers and philosophers on concepts related to identity, life, and architecture are studied and critically analyzed. Through this analysis, an attempt is made to answer the question: how to plan a way to one's own space? Thought-provoking quality, meaningfulness, and remindfulness are characteristics proposed as solutions for this challenge, and strategies have been provided for each. Among the answers in this direction are remindful architecture by using familiar signs and forms related to cultural concepts, providing the possibility of belonging, perception and thinking, readability and touchability of space, and enabling the transfer of perception from form to meaning through allegorical quality.
In the meantime, architects should look at how to change the view of architects and designers from a purely aesthetic look to a life-orientation one. And how to strengthen presence, thinking, self-awareness, and life choices based on their own lifestyle in the space for the audience. And, of course, the final answer lies in the reminder that it isn't possible to regain identity in architectural space, except by the inner return of the dwellers to the abandoned realms of their existence, and the first step is to plan the way of this return.

The loss of the identity of spaces in the architecture and urban planning of the contemporary world is a comprehensive and multifaceted issue influenced by various factors such as globalization, rapid urban development and transformations, and new technologies in construction. The crisis is aggravated for the developing countries with a rich architectural heritage that have welcomed modernity and its achievements in building techniques, and their architects have begun to design through the lenses of Western aesthetics in architecture. We might consider it possible to change the view of architects and designers from a purely aesthetic point of view to a life-orientated one. But, we cannot still be oblivious to the influence of the imported techniques and materials that play a significant role in the quality of spaces. The profit-seeking point of view has taken away the opportunity to digest the imported architecture.
Considering the opinions of thinkers in the fields of humanities and architecture, the present essay raises the question of the possibility of reviving the lost identity on the scope of this crisis and how to maintain the connection to culture and history while accompanying the forced path of the times and the world. Through this exploration, the essay tries to find components for identity while being dynamic in architectural and urban design. The research approach is a theoretical approach in which the opinions of thinkers and philosophers on concepts related to identity, life, and architecture are studied and critically analyzed. Through this analysis, an attempt is made to answer the question: how to plan a way to one's own space? Thought-provoking quality, meaningfulness, and remindfulness are characteristics proposed as solutions for this challenge, and strategies have been provided for each. Among the answers in this direction are remindful architecture by using familiar signs and forms related to cultural concepts, providing the possibility of belonging, perception and thinking, readability and touchability of space, and enabling the transfer of perception from form to meaning through allegorical quality.
In the meantime, architects should look at how to change the view of architects and designers from a purely aesthetic look to a life-orientation one. And how to strengthen presence, thinking, self-awareness, and life choices based on their own lifestyle in the space for the audience. And, of course, the final answer lies in the reminder that it isn't possible to regain identity in architectural space, except by the inner return of the dwellers to the abandoned realms of their existence, and the first step is to plan the way of this return.