From Tradition to Modernity and the reasons for the start of Modernism in Qajar Architecture

Abstract

Traditions as a legacy of ancestor’s rituals, mores, beliefs and behaviors has determined the values, ideals and norms of traditional societies during the history. Modernity unlike the traditions means renewal and changing. History and birth of modernity in Iran is related to Qajar Period. In this period due to many reasons west architecture was imitated as the symbol of new architec ture, so that, lifetime of Iranian Historical Architecture was Ended and a new architecture was born.