Abstract
How to move from tradition to modernity and how to combine or control them in a society has a direct relationship with the culture and the culture, as the main tool of architecture, needs a transition. This transition was started to be appeared in Iran during first Pahlavi era, while the government was planning to develop this process. This research is a qualitative-descriptive one and it has a deductive style and the significance and aim of this research is to study the tradition and modernity in architecture and to see how the contemporary architecture of Iran tried to transit from tradition to modernity during first Pahlavi Era. In this paper, first we will have a quick review on Iran during first Pahlavi era and its contemporary social and political history and tradition and modernity in its architecture and then by studying the architecture of two famous foreign architects, Nikolai Markov and Andre Godard who were invited to the country by the government for reformation and modernization of architecture of the country, their modern architectural styles facing with traditional and national needs of the country and their solutions will be studied.
Highlights
Tradition is a changeless and constant factor which has s historical continuity and it is related to the religious believe of a nation
Something is modern only in relation to its situation in time and space. It seems to be a dichotomy between modernity, as the changing, and tradition, as continuity
First we reviewed the main descriptions of tradition and modernity which were presented by related theorists
Summary
Tradition is a changeless and constant factor which has s historical continuity and it is related to the religious believe of a nation. The modernity is a dipole theory and puts the modern society against the traditional society and without presenting any comprehensive description, it knows the West society as a modern one and introduce the third world countries as the traditional ones. According to this theory, in the third world countries there are some barriers that prevent the development. Before coming to the tradition and modernity in contemporary architecture of Iran, first we will have quick review of First Pahlavi era and its contemporary history and architecture and we will come to the tradition and modernity process and the plans of government toward modernization
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