Datum zveřejnění:

25.9.2020

DOI:  https://doi.org/10.21104/CL.2020.3.04

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Abstrakt:

The essay submits basic information about particular types of traditional earth architecture in Iran. The essay emphasizes the ethnological aspect of the researched theme. The continuous uninterrupted building activities in using the earth, which lasted nearby ten thousand years, resulted in houses, domes, prayer rooms, castles, palaces, and several towns, whereby traces left by this very long tradition can be found in the country even today. Notwithstanding the exceptional historical and architectural values of earth structures, it is possible to observe a plethora of historical buildings in modern-day Iran, which have survived as torsos to exemplify the former glory of earth architecture of this country. The activities connected with the revitalization of original earth architecture are bound to the activity of university and research institutions – Yazd, Tehran, Esfahak Mud Centre, which also are taken into consideration in the text.

Klíčová slova

Iran – traditional earth architecture – cultural heritage – revitalization of mud structures

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