Mosques planning in Iran, Fashion or Culture?

Some cultural and regional characteristics produce and develop principles of art and architecture for people of that region that most of architectural activities of people forms in line with the principles and practices. Few cases have been seen in which the principle in the area on the cultural and geographical boundaries generalize to a political boundaries of a country. In the case of continuous, it led to change people's attitude to their own needs of art and architecture in the context of regional and their desires change.This paragraph is an introduction for a research that intend to challenge the reason of building religious spaces similar and same in vest country of Iran that have a set of four regional climate and many major and minor cultures. What is evaluated in this total but not yet complete research is physical form of holy monuments and mosques of mountainous geographical regions and cultural context of Azarbayjan that are reshaping to the same areas of spaces in the central warm and dry region and deserts of Iran.It has been tried to investigate the effect of cultural and social factors as well as the role of decision-making institutions on changing the structures. Finally, the primary strategies for moving toward updating the architecture of the region based on climate and cultural needs of the people form the final configuration of the study

Keywords:

Climate architecture , Iranian architecture , Islamic architecture , local architecture