In recent decades, Iran’s building industry has devoted a great share of country’s economic activities to itself. In spite of this, the general satisfaction with architecture and built environments has been ever-decreasing as well as extensively criticized. All of these critics have something in common: not accepting the present circumstances, and feeling responsibility for ‘change’ toward a pleasing situation.
Conducting the “educational workshop” on Acquaintance with Architectural Programming could be helpful. This is an action along the common desire for more comfort and functional places-well harmonized with their environments. Nevertheless, designing such places could not be done by accident; rather it requires an ultra-partial point of view and an entire analytic pre-design process which could be called “knowledge” of architectural programming.
Our “Educational Workshop on Acquaintance with Architectural Programming” is an attempt for sharing our achievements with the clients and consulting engineers as well as beginning a dialogue on this issue in Iran.