The Urban Sculptures Role in Shaping the Identity of Cultural Landscape in Tehran City
Document Type : Original Article
Author
Ph.D Researcher in Architecture, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran
Abstract
One of the main functions of urban sculptures in Iran, Regarding its rich cultural backing, is the promotion of visual quality and the induction of identity concepts in the city's Landscape, which can play a major role in shaping and coherence with the existing semantic identity.
Now it is argued that what is the status of Tehran's urban sculptures as a physical and visual element from the beginning of their presence in creating the concept of identity in the cultural Landscape of the city? And How have they played a role in creating a "place identity"?
This research is a qualitative and descriptive-analytical method to study the background and the reasons for the Emersion of sculptures in shaping the concept of cultural landscape identity in Tehran.
The results of the research indicate that Tehran's urban statues have been a variable trend in representing the identity of the city from the time of its emergence to the present.
Thus, through features such as groundlessness and contentism in each ear, the statues of Pahlavi era and specially Islamic revolutionary era, respectively had transferred a kind of mythical authoritative identity and valuative identity by representing the underlying and semantic content to the city’s cultural landscape, while this role was generally diminished in the 1380's.
Now it is argued that what is the status of Tehran's urban sculptures as a physical and visual element from the beginning of their presence in creating the concept of identity in the cultural Landscape of the city? And How have they played a role in creating a "place identity"?
This research is a qualitative and descriptive-analytical method to study the background and the reasons for the Emersion of sculptures in shaping the concept of cultural landscape identity in Tehran.
The results of the research indicate that Tehran's urban statues have been a variable trend in representing the identity of the city from the time of its emergence to the present.
Thus, through features such as groundlessness and contentism in each ear, the statues of Pahlavi era and specially Islamic revolutionary era, respectively had transferred a kind of mythical authoritative identity and valuative identity by representing the underlying and semantic content to the city’s cultural landscape, while this role was generally diminished in the 1380's.
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