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International seminar:
"Modernity and its Impact on the Culture of Iranian Architecture and Urban Planning" 
November 3, 2001 / Tehran, Iran / Organized by ICDAC

Architecture and Urban Planning Group of the International Centre for Dialogue among Civilizations intends to hold a seminar entitled "Modernity and its Impact on the Culture of Iranian Architecture and Urban Planning " on November 3, 2001.

GOAL:
The seminar focuses on the recognition of similarities and differences as well as the exchanges in the field of Architecture and Urban Planning, and so attempts to pave the ground for Dialogue among Civilizations in this field. The discussions will concrn studies on the ways of establishing dialogue, attributes and distinctions of each of the civilizations involved in dialogue, the journey of these elements and their effects and transformation in other cultural areas, with the aim to find common grounds for dialogue and initiation of dialogue. This is a way in which the objective of this seminar – Dialogue among Iranian and World Architecture and Urban Planning – may be achieved.

DIALOGUE:
Human development in the course of history has been made possible through the interaction and exchange of cultures and civilizations. The geographical situation of Iran has turned this country into a bridge between East and West. Iran has been a connecting point for cultures, where achievements were exchanged. It received, added to what was received, and handed it over to the world again.  Architecture and urban planning has been a ground for dialogue among civilizations. Modernity and its impact on architecture and urban planning is a reflection of journeys of the spatial shapes of architecture and urban planning, and exchange of differet cultures and civilizations of the world today. The study of this development process in Iran’s architecture and urban planning, and the reasons for the inequality of active, creative attributes taken by the Iranian modern architecture and those of the world architecture – who has forgotten the Iranian ontological basic beliefs – is a case of Dialogue among Civilizations, looking for a way to build a bridge between the modern architecture and urban planning of Iran and the world in the 21st century.

General topics of the seminar are:

• Contextual structure of dialogue among Iran and world architecture and urban planning today 
• Acts and counteracts of Modernism with regard to Iran’s new architecture 
• Acts and counteracts of Modernism with regard to Iran’s new urban planning 
• The reasons for the inequity in the amount of given and taken active, creative attributes by the new architecture of Iran and the World 
• Solutions for making an active, creative relation between Iran and world architecture and urban planning 
• Merging the architecture and urban planning future horizons of Iran and the world 
• Dialogue among civilizations, a bridge between the new architecture and urban planning of Iran and the world in the 21st century 
• Culture of Iran, modernity and globalization of architecture 
• New ideals of architecture in Iran today, in relation with scientific exchanges of the world 
• Perpetual principles of Iranian architecture in exchange with modern architecture movement 
• In search for patterns and identity of the contemporary Iranian architecture in today’s trend of world exchanges 
• Reasons for the loss of self-integrity of the contemporary Iranian architecture confronted with the western architecture 
• Concept of development and spring of architecture and urban planning in the process of modernity 
• Original integrity and maintaining the original ideals of Iranian architecture and urban planning, along with the necessity of exchange and dialogue of civilizations.  

Abstracts should be sent before September 6, 2001. 
Evaluation results will be announced at September 22, 
and full texts of the selected papers should be sent before October 22, 2001 to:

Architecture and Urban Development Group
International Center for Dialogue Among Civilizations
91 Lavassani St., Tehran, Iran
Tel ( 9821) 221 1210
Fax ( 9821) 221 1211

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