Elham parvizi - Assistant Professor of architecture at Kharazmi university-art&architecture fculty

After industrial revolution, technology, as a growing and powerful instrument in the hand of architects andengineers, has ever made their ideation much closer to the reality. The development of this matter has gone as far that ithas changed the advent of High-Tech of technology to the extreme of architecture. But, the nature-conflictingessence of technology has made environmentalists greatly anxious and resulted in the formation of new majors.In this line, the present article trying to investigate the state of technology development in architecture hasstudied its different dimensions in the building. The research type is descriptive and analytical and the method of datacollection is library research.The research results indicate that the significance of the structure display has had an increasing trend till theadvent of high-tech style, and then it has been decreased due to the reasons stated before, and since 90th decades ofthe 20th century, it has had a constant trend. Glass and steel are still more important in facade, however steel has beenused much more than glass in the late 20th century and early 21st century. The application of shell construction systemhas also gone through an increasing trend.

Technology, Façade’s materials, structure, Metal, Glass