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Zandimoheb A. (2021). Principles of Education Traditional Architecture in the Past using Fotowwat-nama. Athar. 42(1), 82-97.
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Department of art, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran , zandimoheb@gmail.com
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The documents in traditional architectural education in the world relies on educating the Fotowwat-nama of the builders, masons and other existing ones. Fotowwat-nama in each field and fraternity, has been a systematic charter of education in learning technology and skills. The continuity, repetition, and improvements accumulated in the quality of the artifacts over the centuries, is very admirable. An overview of plans and designs in architecture and the interaction between architects and cities is an indication of the appropriate education. The goal of this study is to identify and analyze Fotowwat-nama and traditional training of architectural skills and to find principles of education in the past.The research method is historical-critical, using existing documents, while the aim is to seek to identify the traditional architectural skills education. Using a critical and analytical view, Fotowwat-nama, historical tablets and inscriptions, educating methods, historical trends, and their educational values ​​are introduced while studying old documents alongside the literature in this field (44 credible sources were used for research).
Theoretical and practical education were taught transmitting the knowledge of the teacher to the student and using the student's experiences inside and outside the construction site. The methods of teaching traditional architecture in accordance with the thoughts, beliefs and rituals, included the methods of joining the class of builders and converging and aligned in the direction of excellence and idealism. Teaching items are in three categories: teaching aesthetics, primitive patterns, geometry and mathematics, drawing methods. Structural education included indigenous methods of execution, materials, ground resistance, and structural laws, and professional ethics education included knowledge of the environment appropriate to human comfort, wisdom and ritual skills, and the laws of profession and market. Evaluation was done with an emphasis on social skills and construction rules.

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✅ The documents in traditional architectural education in the world relies on educating the Fotowwat-nama of the builders, masons and other existing ones. Fotowwat-nama in each field and fraternity, has been a systematic charter of education in learning technology and skills. The continuity, repetition, and improvements accumulated in the quality of the artifacts over the centuries, is very admirable. An overview of plans and designs in architecture and the interaction between architects and cities is an indication of the appropriate education.


Type of Study: Original Research Article | Subject: History of architecture and urban planning
Received: 2021/04/14 | Accepted: 2021/05/26 | Published: 2021/07/26

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